Oh hush y’self. The Monterey Peninsula is a huge rock that ain’t going anywhere. Bring it, earthquake dude!
Somebody set up us the humidity.
Hot are you gentlemen?
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.
90F today, 100F by Wednesday. And I’m in England…
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 image if anyone’s interested.
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!)
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.
When did you get down to Dade? Dear Og, why did you get down to Dade?
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.
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
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.
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. 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.
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.
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.