Posted on 07/20/2019 10:49:51 AM PDT by SamAdams76
Some summers are hot.
Well, we only have 12 more years of life on Earth where the summer temps are warmer than the winter temps.
96 here in central Long Island. Lots of humidity. The power went off for 10 minutes my son was about to fire up the generator when the power came back. Watching the Yankees who are beating the Rockies 6-0.
Too hot to do anything else.
That’s about what we have here in northwest Indiana, and I got the same reaction from the girl at the coffee shop yesterday. My wife and I walked a block to get her cold peanut better concoction, and I ordered a 20 ounce black. “Hot?” the girl asked, with a look on her face. Yes. I told her I’m old-fashioned.
Summers like this remind me of quite a few summers we had before we knew the world was going to end, or anyone had heard of Donald Trump.
My personal weather station here in VA shows a temp of 94 with a “feels like” of 106.3. I’m finishing up lunch after having spent the last three hours chopping up and carrying away a couple of huge branches that came down during a recent storm. I’m heading back out in a couple of minutes, though according to the local media I should be dead by now.
We are ending our cooling streak of weather today. Starting tomorrow we’ll start heading up again. Today 89 fah. Tomorrow we will be in the nineties, and within a week back up to our usual triple digits.
Besides geographical location the only real difference between us, and Alabama would be the humidity. We have it here, but nothing like in the South. Been there.
Thank you for the tip. Just checked it out on Good Reads and will add it to my reading stack. Looks like a very decent book.
Cry me a river
It hit 100 in Anchorage Ak - any AC seems to be in just a few stores.
Oddly we (DW and me) and everyone else lived thru it.
Same here in central NJ. Inside enjoying the Open Championship (go Rickie Fowler!) but about to go to Home Depot and do some small patch work on my driveway with my teenage son and cut off a large limb off a tree because of the past storms.
Always enjoy your posts SA76!
Yankees are red hot this year as well. My Red Sox...not so hot.
Very good vanity. You write well.
A crisp 80 degrees here in East TN with occasional downpours to keep the garden happy...God is good.
Yep, we invented humidity here in Bama. Just got back from a big horse show in Mississippi. The people from up north really had a rough time. However, I don’t know how they deal with the cold and snow. It’s all in what you are used to. When someone I know says something about the heat, I just remind them that we won’t be covered in snow and ice in January.
You just get used to the heat. When I was growing up, we also had no AC (but that was in Boston) for most of my childhood. Eventually my father bought two of those window mounted units, once for the kitchen and one for his bedroom (my mother insisted). But my bedroom never had the AC. Now I'm married and my wife demands the AC. But I used to like hot nights with the windows open and just listening to the crickets. I'd take a cold shower before going to bed and sometimes another in the middle of the night if it was especially hot - that felt just so good, crawling under the sheets on a hot night after taking a cold shower.
To me, modern air conditioning is just so COLD! That's why I'm sitting how here on the deck. Too cold inside.
Most of my vanities here are purely stream-of-consciousness writing. Which is why there are some typos and grammar mistakes. I just let my fingers fly on the keyboard, select a bumper image and smack the post button without even proof-reading. So apologies for any errors.
It’s a superb book if you like English literature. It has been made into a movie, twice.
95 currently, 106 heat index. It’s supposed to hit 100 today & tomorrow (that’s temp ... index 110-115). I have grass to mow, but will wait until about 7 and then mow until dark. Until then, I’m working on some pleasant projects inside. When I was growing up, the first house we lived in had no AC (not even window units) so there were fans, cold drinks, staying in the shade & moderating activity. We survived nicely if a bit sweaty in the process and we all grew up just fine.
Fireflies .... after having none for I don’t know how many years, they’re back and in great quantity - more than I’ve ever seen before. They are ‘twinkling’ everywhere as soon as dusk falls. It’s a most lovely scene to behold.
A 128 degree temp difference where I live over the past 6 months. Yay climate! Don’t go changin’...we love you just the way you are.
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