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We have beat the heat!
I'm getting emails like the following from Weather.com:
______________________ An excessive heat warning remains in effect until 7 pm CDT Tuesday. A hot and humid Sunday was observed across extreme southeast Kansas and the Missouri Ozarks. High temperatures ranged from the mid 90s to the low 100s with afternoon heat index values between 105 and 110 degrees over most areas. Oppressively hot and humid conditions will continue through Tuesday. Afternoon high temperatures from the middle 90s to low 100s combined with a very humid airmass will produce heat index values between 104 and 110 degrees. The hottest temperatures will occur between 2 and 7 pm. Little relief will occur during the overnight hours as low temperatures remain in the middle 70s. Consecutive days of these hot and humid conditions can have an accumulating affect on the body...leading to heat illnesses. A cold front will bring relief to the area starting Wednesday. An excessive heat warning means that a prolonged period of dangerously hot temperatures will occur. The combination of hot temperatures and high humidity will combine to create a dangerous situation in which heat illnesses are likely. Drink plenty of fluids...stay in an air-conditioned room...stay out of the sun... and check up on relatives and neighbors. ___________________________ I really don't know why they think this weather warrants a warning like this, as it's quite common at this time of year over most of the southern US that isn't right on the coast. Even without A/C in the house, we're doing fine! With the insulated windows, which I open at night and shut early in the morning, and the metal grate over the 2'x3' opening in the floor from the old floor furnace I had removed, and a box fan laying on top of the grate blowing cool air upward, the indoor temperature has not gone over 85 - and that's at midday and at head level, meaning the floor is quite a bit cooler, so it's quite tolerable for us all. Eli looks ridiculous laying on his back with his legs in the air and his fat-cat male teats showing, but he's cool as a cucumber. Abelard doesn't mind being warm, and neither, apparently, do the young ones. I hardly see Beatrice and Baby Eyes, they're probably in the closet. Lily spends most of her time on the kitchen floor, Tommy's under my bed, and Billy the giant is splayed over the floor grate beside the fan with tummy connected to the basement air. |
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We have beat the heat!
On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:26:40 -0500, Pat wrote:
I'm getting emails like the following from Weather.com: ______________________ An excessive heat warning remains in effect until 7 pm CDT Tuesday. Rolla, MO (65409) - Rolla Uni Of Missouri, MO Sunny - 97 degrees at 8/4/08 2:45 PM CDT; Feels like: 112 Relative Humidity: 52%; Dewpoint: 77 degrees Barometer: 29.98 (steady) Wind: SSW (210 degrees) at 8 MPH, Gusts to: N/A UV level: 8 (Very High); Visibility: 10.0 miles -------- On the other hand, the reheat water pumps for the building are off so the AC is running full blast and it's *cold* in my office - cold enough that I'm wearing a knit cap, and a flannel shirt over my regular short-sleeve shirt. Of course, it'll be hot when I get home because my home AC simply can't keep up. The cats are small enough to find microclimates that are more comfortable. -- T.E.D. ) |
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We have beat the heat!
Ted Davis wrote in
The cats are small enough to find microclimates that are more comfortable. Microclimates, I like that. |
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We have beat the heat!
On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:28:01 +0000, outsider wrote:
Ted Davis wrote in The cats are small enough to find microclimates that are more comfortable. Microclimates, I like that. I once worked with a guy who got his masters for research on the microclimates of vinyards. -- T.E.D. ) MST (Missouri University of Science and Technology) used to be UMR (University of Missouri - Rolla). |
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We have beat the heat!
Ted Davis wrote:
On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:28:01 +0000, outsider wrote: Ted Davis wrote in The cats are small enough to find microclimates that are more comfortable. Microclimates, I like that. I once worked with a guy who got his masters for research on the microclimates of vinyards. I discovered microclimates when I first visited San Francisco. It's so hilly that the weather in one part of the city doesn't always reach other parts. During that visit, I was staying with someone who lived in a foggy, rainy, windy neighborhood. It looked like monsoon season out there. But then I'd catch a bus to a neighborhood less than a mile away, and it would be warm, sunny and calm. Weirdest thing I'd ever seen. I was from New England, which doesn't have microclimates. Last time I went to Florida, my sister and went someplace a bit out of town, but not extremely far from where she lived, maybe a few miles away. The weather started getting overcast and looking like rain, and because I'm so used to microclimates now, I said, "I wonder if it's like this at your house." She looked at me like I was nuts, like, the *weather's* going to be different 3 miles away?? LOL. New England does have very *changeable* weather. People there have the expression, "If you don't like the weather, wait a minute." So I now say, about San Francisco, "If you don't like the weather, cross the street." -- Joyce ^..^ (To email me, remove the X's from my user name.) |
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We have beat the heat!
On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:49:10 +0000, bastXXXette wrote:
I discovered microclimates when I first visited San Francisco. It's so hilly that the weather in one part of the city doesn't always reach other parts. During that visit, I was staying with someone who lived in a foggy, rainy, windy neighborhood. It looked like monsoon season out there. But then I'd catch a bus to a neighborhood less than a mile away, and it would be warm, sunny and calm. Weirdest thing I'd ever seen. I was from New England, which doesn't have microclimates. That's more "mesoclimate" than "microclimate" - it's a matter of scale: mesoclimate is about climate on a scale of tens of yards/meters or more while microclimate is about climates on a scale of a meter or less. A neighborhood would have mesoclimate, the area under a bush is a microclimate. Yards and houses have many microclimates - bushes have several: the ground, the canopy, etc.; a typical room has spots and elevations that are different from each other. Under my bed there are a whole range of microclimeates, from cold at one corner where the AC discharges to much warmer near the opposite corner where the afternoon sun warms that end of the house. -- T.E.D. ) |
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