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The Anchorage, Part 3
- Thread starter Lorraine
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I want heat!
You can have all the rain on your side of the country. We've had enough over here.
McGyver
Energetic
NOT THE SKINNY CANDLES!!
Well, 45°C is pretty much flat out desert weather. That's like Arizona hot...
24°C isn't what I remember, mostly I remember it being around 35°-37° in the hotter areas where I spent most of my time... I suspect that 24° was/is midway up the mountain.
Where my father's house was, it probably averaged 30°C, but as you moved down towards the water, it would get very warm and dry... If you went all the way up the big mountain (Monte Faito), even in the summer it would be downright chilly there.
45°C... I can imagine what it would be like on the roads... A few years back, I parked my 72' Pontiac in a New Jersey parking lot on a day when the air temperature was supposed to be around 38°C (102°F)... God knows what the air temperature was baking in the sun on that blacktop, but when I came back to the car in the evening, the aftermarket digital compass in my dashboard had melted and the plastic visor extension fused to the headliner.
Lorraine
The Wicked Witch of the North
The Winterless North is a trick played on unsuspecting would-be tourists and residents who see the word 'subtropical' and get all excited. Subtropical does not mean tropical, oh hell no, subtropical means we don't get many frosts in the winter but it's still bloody cold at night, subtropical means we're almost the last ones in the country to feel a southerly buster but it still gets us though without snow. And we get rain, lots and lots and lots of rain, usually accompanied by gale or storm. The Winterless North is a load of old cobblers.
Most of the tourists come from overseas thus travel agents. Most NZers just get in their cars and drive North till they nearly fall off and wonder why it's so bloody cold!
Most of the tourists come from overseas thus travel agents. Most NZers just get in their cars and drive North till they nearly fall off and wonder why it's so bloody cold!
StudioMartillo
Engaged
Sooson Monsean;
Computer update time. New drive, SSD. Used Macrium Reflect to clone a 1TB HDD to a 500GB SSD. Pretty slick app.
New tablet too. Went from trackball to a 10" x 6" pressure pen tablet. Got some Lisle Cotton inspection gloves so my hand can just zip around real easy. Couple days practice and it's much quicker than the trackball. Especially pushing points around.
Whole resort is under water until it stops raining.
Computer update time. New drive, SSD. Used Macrium Reflect to clone a 1TB HDD to a 500GB SSD. Pretty slick app.
New tablet too. Went from trackball to a 10" x 6" pressure pen tablet. Got some Lisle Cotton inspection gloves so my hand can just zip around real easy. Couple days practice and it's much quicker than the trackball. Especially pushing points around.
Whole resort is under water until it stops raining.
Mythocentric
Extraordinary
I think we've got them over here Terre. The rain has been wicked the last few days. You can tell its heavy when the fish swim up to the high tide mark, across the beach and carry on to the prom! With the exception of today (12 degrees) its also been sticky warm so you get wet if you go out without a coat you get wet and sweaty if you do wear one!
Definitely sounds like Philadelphia. Woke up to a warning that my cell phone needed charging AND a flash flood alert.
It's 73F / 23C at 10:47 PM. I keep thinking I should turn off the AC because it LOOKS cold outside. But since it's been running almost non stop (with the thermostat set at 74F), it's clearly hot outside.
I love rain. Absolutely love rain. But not when it's humid.
It's 73F / 23C at 10:47 PM. I keep thinking I should turn off the AC because it LOOKS cold outside. But since it's been running almost non stop (with the thermostat set at 74F), it's clearly hot outside.
I love rain. Absolutely love rain. But not when it's humid.
It's not the humidity that makes it miserable. It's the dew point. A dew point of 55 is comfy (like you get on the West Coast), but a dew point in the 60s and 70s (like on the East Coast) makes humidity miserable. Seattle is actually more humid than Miami, but it's never uncomfortable like on the East Coast because the dew point is lower.
So rain is refreshing, not this muggy soup on the East Coast that makes you feel you're drowning.
So rain is refreshing, not this muggy soup on the East Coast that makes you feel you're drowning.
Ohhhhh, I've never had anyone explain the dew point before, so didn't realize the difference.
Now that you mention it, I remember a good deal of rain in San Francisco the 3 summers I spent there back in the mid-60s, and yes it wasn't as humid as it is here, though I don't feel like I'm drowning. I just feel like I'm suffocating, because it's hard to breath when the air is so heavy with moisture.
Now that you mention it, I remember a good deal of rain in San Francisco the 3 summers I spent there back in the mid-60s, and yes it wasn't as humid as it is here, though I don't feel like I'm drowning. I just feel like I'm suffocating, because it's hard to breath when the air is so heavy with moisture.
Terre
Renowned
Ah! That explains why I've never had that muggy feeling you guys keep talking about.
We lived in Mobile Alabama when I was too young to remember the weather. I just have a few memories of things like lightning bugs at night and a big green yard and my dad having three little turtles in a small aquarium. He always told me to wash my hand after handling them as they carry salmonella.
I wonder what the dew point was in Kure, Japan. I don't remember any muggy stuff there either but I was also just 7 when we left to return to the States.
We lived in Mobile Alabama when I was too young to remember the weather. I just have a few memories of things like lightning bugs at night and a big green yard and my dad having three little turtles in a small aquarium. He always told me to wash my hand after handling them as they carry salmonella.
I wonder what the dew point was in Kure, Japan. I don't remember any muggy stuff there either but I was also just 7 when we left to return to the States.
Mythocentric
Extraordinary
What a strange week it's been.....night night all!