It’s 92 degrees F in my living room right now, I have no A/C, and I am about to bake a cake. Well, I’ll probably hop in a cool shower while it’s baking. It may get hotter from the oven but at least I’ll have cake.
Um, yeah. I’d like to point out that all of you people (except Wile E) are pansies. It’s 2 in the morning here, and it’s 84 degrees, with 88% humidity – the heat index is 88, and there is a light breeze at 3mph. I expect to wake up in the morning to the mid-80s and a light fog, which is to be our usual until the middle of September.
We’re lucky, cause there’s a “cold” front coming through, so it’s not gonna go above 88 this week, but it’s also not gonna go below 75. Oh, and it’s supposed to rain every day, but probably just enough to make the streets steam up and turn the outdoors into a sauna.
Thanks Bambi! Although I did give up on the idea of baking my cake last night, but not because of the heat, I was just too tired and falling asleep with the oven on might lead to much more heat of the firey kind.
Well, this is what the National Weather Service has to say about New England’s upcoming weather:
…85-90 DEGREE SUMMER WARMTH PROBABLY ARRIVING FRIDAY OR MORE
NOTICEABLE IN NEXT SUNDAY OR MONDAY…
SYNOPSIS…
PATTERN WARMED TO NEAR NORMAL THIS PAST WEEKEND AND ABOVE NORMAL
WARMTH IS NOT TOO FAR AWAY…ALL THIS AFTER A PROBABLE TOP 4 COLDEST
MAY AT ALL MAJOR SNE CLIMO SITES IN 100+ YEARS RECORD KEEPING.
So we’re jumping from winter into summer without hitting spring much at all.
This past weekend, by the way, was the nicest one we’ve had in ages and it still managed to rain all three days.
The Herald? A TRIUMPH Herald? :eek:
Jebus, you so belong in Seattle. 
Yup. There’s a thread about it in MPSIMS. ‘Back from L.A. and The Herald’. (Not enough coffee to look for it right now.)
Why do I belong in Seattle with a Herald? 
But do you have a/c? If you do, that temperature is mitigated quite a bit. If not, well, yeah, that sucks a lot. 
The Seattle area is the final resting place for weird, crappy, old cars that would have returned to their constituent elements anywhere else. Weird and crappy, not cool or funky. Triumph TR-250? Los Angeles. Triumph Herald? Seattle. Austin Healy 100/4? Los Angeles. Austin America? Seattle. Jensen Interceptor? Los Angeles. Jensen Healy? Seattle. Corvette? Everywhere. Cosworth Vega? Seattle. (Please note that it was in the Seattle area that I last saw the second of each pair operating under its own power.) It’s something about the maritime climate that ensures that those cars usually start and something about the hippie attitude that causes people to find the beautiful and loveable in cars that those of a more rational bent might find to be blights on the landscape. Well, God bless you and your ilk. I still regret missing out on a Crosley Hot Shot many years ago so I can understand.
I once gave my brother (collects crappy old Benz diesels in Poulsbo) a book of great lemons of the fifties, sixties, and seventies. He remarked on how many of them he had owned.
Of course I have A/C. It gets turned on in mid-April and doesn’t get turned off until September / October at the earliest, during which time it runs around the clock. The rest of the year, it’s only on while the sun’s out, except maybe two or three scattered weeks between Dec and Feb. I usually keep it set between 75 and 80 through the year, so it’s not too bad.
But two things: 1. You can’t stay inside all the time, and when you step out into it, the air feels like a tangible thing that is doing its best to suffocate you, and 2. Wile E said that it’s 92 in her living room, cause she doesn’t have air.
Wile E, I feel for you. My last house did not have central A/C, and it was a nightmare. Only the bedrooms had window air units, and they would freeze up if we left the doors open. In the high summer, it was usually warmer in the house than it was outside – often 5 - 10 degrees so. Those were the days that I brought a fan outside and sat using my laptop in the shade.
I was on the ferry that day… it was truly beautiful (of course, the horrid traffic up to the ferry sucked. But once out on the water …)
And then it cooled down. But the pac NW (and southwest Canada, which is technically where I was) is glorious on these days. Partially because there are so few of them.
Interesting. The last Herald I saw for sale (after the one I bought from Sacramento, and before the one currently on eBay in Ontario, Canada) was in Olalla, WA. (Actually, you don’t see many Heralds at all in the U.S.!) My realtor, in Bellingham, has a Jensen Healey. The last Jensen I saw in L.A. (back in the late-1980s) was an Interceptor. (My old friend BeelzeBob had a Jensen Healey – which he wrecked – in San Diego in the early-1980s.)
I wouldn’t call the Herald ‘crappy’ or a ‘lemon’. (My mom would disagree, but I think dad’s was a 948cc version.) After all, they were built from 1959 to 1971. They must have been at least somewhat good!
Back on-topic: The weather has been cooler recently. Seemed the day I started this thread was the hottest. A friend gave me a heads-up last night, and I went out and erected the hood on the Herald. Good thing, too. It’s drizzling today.
False logic. Counter examples:
Fiat 128 (1969-1985)
DAF 750 (1961-1975)
Hillman Imp (1963-1976)
And I could go on. :eek: