Supposed to hit triple digits tomorrow. Even my usual tactic of consoling myself by checking out how much worse Death Valley is isn’t helping all that much, even though my high today was within a few degrees of their overnight low.
That doesn’t sound crazy. It sounds like allergies.
The water in the Potomac River around DC hit a record high of 94.
Would anyone be able to point me at anything useful about the effect of heat on air pressure? My DH and I have noticed that under especially hot conditions (such as getting into a car that’s been parked for a while) we both feel like there’s not quite enough air in the air.
It might… except I had a grass allergy as a kid… and I still occasionally sneeze at grass pollen… and this was Nothing Like That. This was like trying to breathe bad atmosphere with too much CO2 and not enough O2.
Way back in the day (before it was probably cut by some stable genius who thought it was “fake news” ) the weather reports used to occasionally report on something that they used to call “air quality”.
I never thought too much about it… but “bad air quality” describes the situation I experienced a lot closer than “sounds like allergies”.
Here’s an article about how the heat wave negatively impacted air quality:
I’ve got no idea how it’s related to the weather, or even if it is directly related to the weather, but I’ve got an odd thing about seasonality:
Every year in late spring to early summer I have a brief invasion of Very Small Ants. This goes on for maybe three or four weeks; then it stops again, and I don’t see them again (at least not inside the house) till the next year.
This year that occured more or less as normal – I don’t keep track of the dates. And it stopped as normal: no ants for several weeks. Good, that’s over with till next year –
WTF? I just went into the kitchen, and the counter next to the sink, today, was covered with Very Small Ants.
No kidding. It looks like we’ve been meeting or setting record lows around here. Which would be less surprising if it had been raining, but it’s been sunny for the past few weeks except for a couple of thunderstorms that have rolled through.
My Texan apologies to the rest of the U.S., apparently y’all are getting all our heat.
Also, the Arctic is on fire Arctic fires shown on satellite are concerning scientists