My good friend and fellow blogger Rick posted something about how hot it's been in Columbia, South Carolina, and made mention of the fact that he cranked up the A/C in his car and his home, his glass of cola "filled appropriately with ice."
(How would one fill a coke glass inappropriately?)
The National Weather Service has issued this bulletin for Western Washington state:
THE HOTTEST WEATHER SO FAR THIS YEAR IS EXPECTED OVER WESTERN WASHINGTON SUNDAY AND MONDAY....STRONG HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT COMBINED WITH LOW LEVEL OFFSHORE FLOW WILL RESULT IN RECORD OR NEAR RECORD TEMPERATURES AT A NUMBER OF PLACES ON SUNDAY AND AGAIN MONDAY. ALSO...STAGNANT CONDITIONS ARE ALSO EXPECTED TO DEVELOP EARLY NEXT WEEK AND THIS COULD LEAD TO A BUILD UP OF POLLUTION IN THE ATMOSPHERE.
My glass too will be appropriately filled with ice tomorrow, but I, like most others in the Puget Sound region, have no air conditioning in my home.
So Rick, thanks for gripe. I raise my iced cold Diet Coke to you and add my voice to yours as we complain about the heat. Oh - if you get the chance, could you email some extra cold air from your air vent? When it arrives I will open the file and cool the downstairs living room.
3 comments:
"(How would one fill a coke glass inappropriately?)" - you know how some restaurants might bring a tall glass of coftdrink with just a couple of mambypamby pieces of ice that melt away before the server leaves with the rest of your order? totally inappropriate.
i don't know about the availability of "extra" cold air, but i will do my best to steer the jet stream further south to alleviate as much of the problem as i can.
In Richmond, we went directly from some mild, wonderful 60 and 70 degree days to some very humid 90 degree days. There was no "adjustment" period. I've been slowly upping my thermostat.
But I have to confess, James, that my image of your area is blown. Somehow, I pictured Washington as always having very cool, sometimes foggy weather that almost never reaches 80, much less 91!
Patrick, your perception is correct - the climate in Western Washington is mild and rarely reaches 80. But there are always about two weeks in summer that bring unusually hot temperatures.
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