# Ha, ha, ha! All your heatwaves are belong to us! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 17, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-all-your-heatwaves-are-belong-to-us/364910 "2006-07-17T19:21:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-all-your-heatwaves-are-belong-to-us/364910/21 "2006-07-17T20:44:08Z")
[QUOTE=Terminus Est] Just wait until the Big One comes and they’ll all be swimming with the fishes. [/QUOTE] Oh hush y’self. The Monterey Peninsula is a huge rock that ain’t going anywhere. Bring it, earthquake dude! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-all-your-heatwaves-are-belong-to-us/364910/22 "2006-07-17T20:47:10Z")
Somebody set up us the humidity. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-all-your-heatwaves-are-belong-to-us/364910/23 "2006-07-17T22:08:54Z")
Hot are you gentlemen? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-all-your-heatwaves-are-belong-to-us/364910/24 "2006-07-18T00:06:12Z")
6pm. About 55 up here at altitude. It rarely hits 80 (I’m a 100 miles west of Denver)j. Of course, that nice dry cool weather is offset by a full 6 months of very hard winter. We usually see at least a little snow every month of summer too. Though even the winters are offset by the bright, bright sunny days. Full on sun at high altitude really makes a difference. It provides a lot of our heat in the winter. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-all-your-heatwaves-are-belong-to-us/364910/25 "2006-07-18T00:07:14Z")
Ha. [I missed this one.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=380132) 90F today, 100F by Wednesday. And I’m in England… ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-all-your-heatwaves-are-belong-to-us/364910/26 "2006-07-18T00:09:31Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] Yes. We frequently hear two things from tourists. One, “it’s so nice and cool here. It’s 100 degrees where we’re from! You’re so lucky!” Then, a few hours later they’re wearing coats and saying “OMG, how can you be wearing nothing but shorts and a T-shirt?? It’s freezing!!” That’s Monterey. [/QUOTE] My grandma has a place down in McAllen, Texas. I went down for a visit one year when they were having a “cold snap.” It was in the mid forties. I will never forget seeing one of the guys who lived across the street come outside in a heavy coat, scarf, and gloves and proceed to _wrap his rosebushes!_ ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-all-your-heatwaves-are-belong-to-us/364910/27 "2006-07-18T00:24:16Z")
Google Weather sez it’s 93 in my zip code right now. That wouldn’t be so bad, except the pool at the apartment here has a broken thermostat. The water temp is running about 95 today. Not all that refreshing, I can tell you. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-all-your-heatwaves-are-belong-to-us/364910/28 "2006-07-18T02:09:45Z")
[QUOTE=Lissa] My grandma has a place down in McAllen, Texas. I went down for a visit one year when they were having a “cold snap.” It was in the mid forties. I will never forget seeing one of the guys who lived across the street come outside in a heavy coat, scarf, and gloves and proceed to _wrap his rosebushes!_ [/QUOTE] Texas has got some weird weather. I was stationed in San Antonio for awhile. It could be 80 or 90 degrees one day and snowing the next. Strangest thing I ever saw was cactus with snow on it. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-all-your-heatwaves-are-belong-to-us/364910/29 "2006-07-18T04:10:42Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] Then, a few hours later they’re wearing coats and saying “OMG, how can you be wearing nothing but shorts and a T-shirt?? It’s freezing!!” That’s Monterey. [/QUOTE] How does Monterey’s climate compare to San Francisco’s, since you are relatively close and both on the Pacific? I’m reminded of the Mark Twain quote: “The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.” Too bad Twain never actually said it. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-all-your-heatwaves-are-belong-to-us/364910/30 "2006-07-18T04:17:08Z")
I cranked up my pitiful little window A/C unit for the first time in five years yesterday. Just couldn’t take the muggy any more. Plus it was fun holding my cats in the cold air stream and watching them wrinkle their noses at it. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-all-your-heatwaves-are-belong-to-us/364910/31 "2006-07-18T05:05:05Z")
[QUOTE=Fiddle Peghead] How does Monterey’s climate compare to San Francisco’s, since you are relatively close and both on the Pacific? I’m reminded of the Mark Twain quote: “The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.” Too bad Twain never actually said it. [/QUOTE] Similar. In SF, the fog rolls in around 4 or 5 PM and the temp can drop 20 or 30 degrees in minutes. But, the temp can climb to 80 or 90 degrees on a nice, sunny day in SF. You don’t get 80 degree days in Monterey. A couple-few times a year maybe, but most of time not. 70 degrees is a warm day. We’ve got too much cold, deep water around us, the warmer inland temps can’t push their way on to us. Nighttime temps are pretty much always in the 40’s & 50’s. Here’s a google [satellite](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=monterey+california+93940&ie=UTF8&ll=36.595684,-121.884727&spn=0.159596,0.336113&t=k&om=1) image if anyone’s interested. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-all-your-heatwaves-are-belong-to-us/364910/32 "2006-07-18T05:40:52Z")
Fuck the environmental impact! Fuck the energy shortage! Put a giaint Fuller-dome over the country and install A/C! (Writing from southernmost Florida. At least in Arizona they get a dry heat!) ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-all-your-heatwaves-are-belong-to-us/364910/33 "2006-07-18T08:50:41Z")
It’s about 78 degrees and quite pleasant down here in the Balkans. Probably too good to last, especially when they’re broiling in _Britain_ of all places, but I’ll enjoy it while I can. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-all-your-heatwaves-are-belong-to-us/364910/34 "2006-07-18T12:14:01Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] Fuck the environmental impact! Fuck the energy shortage! Put a giaint Fuller-dome over the country and install A/C! (Writing from southernmost Florida. At least in Arizona they get a dry heat!) [/QUOTE] When did you get down to Dade? Dear Og, _why_ did you get down to Dade? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-all-your-heatwaves-are-belong-to-us/364910/35 "2006-07-18T17:44:39Z")
[QUOTE=ShibbOleth] When did you get down to Dade? Dear Og, _why_ did you get down to Dade? [/QUOTE] Only place I could find a full-time librarian job after more than a year of desperate searching. Miami-Dade has almost the only public library system in Florida that’s expanding. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-all-your-heatwaves-are-belong-to-us/364910/36 "2006-07-18T19:50:20Z")
My handy desktop weather bar says it’s 28 degrees Celsius right now and will drop down to 17 degrees tonight. Heeeee. _basks in comfort_ ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-all-your-heatwaves-are-belong-to-us/364910/37 "2006-07-18T21:12:24Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] Texas has got some weird weather. I was stationed in San Antonio for awhile. It could be 80 or 90 degrees one day and snowing the next. Strangest thing I ever saw was cactus with snow on it. [/QUOTE] Last I heard it hadn’t snowed in McAllen since the mid 1970s. Cute story: My grandma was given some candles in the shape of “adorable” children. (I thought they were hideous.) She put them on a shelf in the house. A few months later, when she went back down there for a vacation, the children had melted in the un-airconditioned house, becoming horribly mangled and deformed. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-all-your-heatwaves-are-belong-to-us/364910/38 "2006-07-18T21:39:38Z")
[QUOTE=Fiddle Peghead] How does Monterey’s climate compare to San Francisco’s, since you are relatively close and both on the Pacific? I’m reminded of the Mark Twain quote: “The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.” Too bad Twain never actually said it. [/QUOTE] The word “microclimate” gets tossed around quite a bit. We have something like 15 of them in the bay area, and the weather you have in, for example, Daly City, is never the weather you have in [Fremont](http://www.wunderground.com/auto/sfgate/CA/Fremont.html). I’ve come back across the bay from a party at my boss’ home and had to change out of my sweater and slacks into a tank top and shorts. And after spending four days in southern Pennsylvania, I can quite honestly say the lack of humidity is WONDERFUL. ---
**Author:** ![Tully\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Tully\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tully_Mars)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-all-your-heatwaves-are-belong-to-us/364910/39 "2006-07-19T00:02:43Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] Currently, at around 12 noon, on July 17, it is 69 degrees F where I live. [/QUOTE] You scurvy dog, you. I just got home from a 25 mile motorcycle ride in 104 degrees. When I left work, it actually felt better when I lowered the visor on my helmet because the wind in my face was like the wave of hot air when you open the oven door. Thank goodness there were no traffic backups. Sunday afternoon, I was repairing fence in a creek bottom with no breeze amd little shade and 103 degrees. The heat wave separates the men from the … from the… from the smarter men with air conditioners. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-all-your-heatwaves-are-belong-to-us/364910/40 "2006-07-19T03:12:38Z")
[QUOTE=Tully Mars] You scurvy dog, you. I just got home from a 25 mile motorcycle ride in 104 degrees. When I left work, it actually felt better when I lowered the visor on my helmet because the wind in my face was like the wave of hot air when you open the oven door. Thank goodness there were no traffic backups. Sunday afternoon, I was repairing fence in a creek bottom with no breeze amd little shade and 103 degrees. The heat wave separates the men from the … from the… from the smarter men with air conditioners. [/QUOTE] Ouch! Just so no one thinks I’m all coddled & stuff, I haven’t always lived in Monterey. I mentioned earlier having been stationed in Texas while in the Army. We were stationed on an Air Force base, and our commander had a case of the ass with the AF. They have this thing called a wet-bulb thermometer along with a condition rating. I think condition “black” meant you weren’t allowed to exercise outdoors in the heat. Of course our commander defied the base commander and assembled us all for a unit run in what I’m sure was 100+ heat. The Air Force police (called SPs) pulled us over. Heh. I hadn’t realized before that you could “pull over” a whole formation of running soldiers. They issued our commander a ticket, which he politely & proudly accepted, and we continued our run. Only now he lead us straight through the main road of the base, and anyone who’s been in the military knows a running formation has right-of-way with vehicle traffic, so everyone had to stop and wait for us. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-all-your-heatwaves-are-belong-to-us/364910.md?page=1)