Posted on 08/12/2021 8:31:55 AM PDT by blam
At my hideout in AZ, the weather has been beautiful for weeks. It’s currently 77 degree at noon, cobalt blue sunny sky’s mixed with white cotton ball clouds.
Somehow we’ll tough it out!
The news likes to call this Virginia weather a “heatwave”. I’m sure it’s to make the people who moved here without doing their research feel better by making them think that hot, humid summer weather isn’t the norm.
Virginia is probably one of the most extreme weather states in the USA. Extremely hot summers and really cold winters. It be 10 in the winter and 100 in the summer, a 90 degree to variance.
Normal hotter than heII august here. I remember hotter ones back in the early 1980s when the Coming Ice Age was still a “thing”.
One August was so hot we did not get A reprieve until mid September. Our power company made it’s “peak” in power production on Sept 5 of that year.
Years ago the news media used the terms “El Nino” and La Niña” to hype the weather and frighten people.
The dog days are when Alpha Canis Majoris — Sirius, the dog star — is too close to the sun to be visible. The heliacal rising of Sirius before sunrise was viewed by the ancient Egyptians as the sign that the annual Nile flood was about to begin. Being the brightest star in the night sky, it was popularly supposed that when Sirius (whose name means “burning”) was especially close to the sun in its annual procession through the zodiac, the dog star’s heat would supplement that of the sun, making the seasonal warmth especially oppressive. In the Nile delta, Sirius begins to be viewable before dawn about August 6. So the dog days are now over, strictly speaking.
I don’t think anyone moves to this state for the weather....
In the Nile delta, Sirius begins to be viewable before dawn about August 6. So the dog days are now over, strictly speaking.
So, now I know.. Thanks for that.. :)
A “heat dome” is August weather with a press agent.
Much cooler than normal in Phoenix, AZ in March-April, July and Aug
You’re welcome.
Of course, where I am, it’s still straight up summer. We’re in the belly of the beast for at least another month. Plus the possibility of hurricanes. I look for the end of summer with at least as much yearning as the Egyptians.
In Florida we have 2 seasons, hot and really HOT!
We actually had a cold front today, it went down to 92*
At 92* and with the humidity it’s feels like 106*.
No matter how much you sweat you never get cool, just sticky.
It was so hot today I saw a tourist burst into flames just walking down the sidewalk 🤗
Not looking! LONG.
AIRSTREAMS ARE MEASURED tongue to tail.
If you go to a 27 my preference would be the 28 which is actually shorter than the 27 by a bit but I think has a better floorplan.
The old 27 or maybe 26 rear bath would be my preference. I think it was called a Traveler. It had twins either side of the hall to the bathroom but they are hard to find in good condition.
I have lots of opinions on AS you could find in my remodel postings in the AS forums.
I'm sick of green, and the flies, gnats, and those blasted cicadas.!! Thou the cicadas are excellent bass bait.. :)
Astronomically speaking, the dog days ended last week.Glad you pointed that out. The "dog star," Sirius, rises in the Egypt mid July, which marks the rise of the Nile. In other cultures the "dog days" begin with July heat and people become "star struck."
Man it’s getting hot hot hot
I said man it’s getting hot hot hot
It’s getting hotter and hotter
And hotter and hotter
It’s a meltdown, it’s a meltdown
It’s a meltdown, it’s a meltdown
It’s a meltdown, it’s a meltdown
I said down down
It’s a meltdown, meltdown, meltdown
It’s a meltdown, it’s a meltdown
That settles it... must be global warming
It sure is, but NOT the kind of warming they want you to believe.
It sure is, but NOT the kind of warming they want you to believe.
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