[Brokenfriend]

Thank you everyone. We had curtains of rain,lightning,wind,and a couple of hours of power loss. A big limb crashed down near my car. My car is OK. BF

[bizi]

glad that you and your car are safe. and it sounds as if your equipment is all ok too.
bizi

[waves]

We just got hit by a heatwave from Africa.

Oh, this is nothing compared to other summers yet, but it took me all of half a day to be sick of it already.


I * WANT * AIR CONDITIONINNNGGG !!!



It's expected to peak out on Wednesday. By Friday we should be back to high 70's and a little cooler during the weekend, but I think after that we are due for more heat.

I hate that I have so little heat tolerance any more. I grew up and spent most of my life where it was very hot and verrry humid. This sensitivity to heat feels unnatural to me. It could be partly an age thing but it mostly seems to correlate with weight gain - from meds. How depressing!

waves

[bizi]

I am sorry you don't have air conditioning....if you buy into global warming then we are in for some hotter weather.
bizi

[DiMarie]

Steve I am so glad both you and the car are okay. I hate loosing the power.

Waves, that is a change from last year isn't it? I wonder what it means for the weather systems that travel off Africa and end up as hurricanes?

Di

[waves]

Originally Posted by DiMarie

Waves, that is a change from last year isn't it? I wonder what it means for the weather systems that travel off Africa and end up as hurricanes?

Di

Hi Di,

Yes this past Winter was milder, but so far Spring and Summer are cooler than last year - also cooler than what is typical. The consensus here is that the seasons are disappearing! But it doesn't always fit.

As long as I have known hurricanes have come off the African coast, or out of the Gulf. Occasionally something will form over water I think too. Those are unrelated to the heat systems we get though. Not sure if you were trying to figure that out?

The heat we get is always from Africa, btw. This year is much, much cooler than last year or the year before. I can't remember what year it was (2003? 2004?) that we had the dreadful summer throughout Europe. It was HOT HOT HOT all June through mid-October (usually nippy by then!) - unrelenting temps in the 100's - crazy. That year, the deaths recorded from heat stroke, dehydration, respiratory distress and other heat-related issues were at record highs in several European countries.

This Spring has been unusually cool. We should have hit the 80's in late Spring (but no complaints here!) and it barely touched 70. IThere's no telling really how the rest of the Summer will play out, but I hope we keep getting little breaks in between the heat waves, that will help. That and rain.

Oh yeah that year that was so hot, it didn't rain for the longest time - that contributed to the problem.

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As far as AC goes, few have it and fewer have central air. Most places here aren't used to dealing with intense heat because it didn't happen. They added AC to public transport here only in recent years, and people don't use it correctly so it either goes to waste and ends up breaking down or you end up in a freezer-box of a bus only to step outside into Sahara-temperatures and catch your death of something or other. Then people start saying AC is bad, and want it turned off completely... go figure!

waves

[Mari]

Originally Posted by waves

Hi Di,
They added AC to public transport here only in recent years, and people don't use it correctly so it either goes to waste and ends up breaking down or you end up in a freezer-box of a bus only to step outside into Sahara-temperatures and catch your death of something or other. Then people start saying AC is bad, and want it turned off completely... go figure!

waves

Waves,

I remember my mother complaining about the commuter air conditioned subway cars in NYC in the mid 1990s. The subway stations were hotter than outside at street level (due to machinery and all), and she felt that no a/c on the trains might have been better than having to deal with the very hot transition from the train through the station to the street level.
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Here, mid-June in the low 90 s feels hot with humidity in the high 80% s.
Generally, both those numbers stay fairly constant until Oct.

June is weird because people complain and complain . . . because they have not accommodated yet to the high temps.
Right now folks are in the whining mode.
By August, we just go with the flow of being hot ALL THE TIME.


My complaint is about the RAIN. I believe that we are getting more this year than last year and last year was a record year.

Mari

[waves]

Hi Bizi,

I don't buy into global warming insofar as panicking about the ozone layer. I am against pollution just on principle, but I suspect there are larger forces at work, natural ones, responsible for the climatic changes.

Before we were around to pollute it, the Earth went through a few ice ages. When each ice age ended, what would you call what happened? I'd say "global warming" might be an apt term.

I do think the earth's weather is likely to undergo variations that take longer than one of our lifespans. So sure, I buy into the idea that we may be in for warmer weather... it certainly seems to be that way. Not that I really want to be reminded...

waves

[Brokenfriend]

Originally Posted by waves

Hi Bizi,

I don't buy into global warming insofar as panicking about the ozone layer. I am against pollution just on principle, but I suspect there are larger forces at work, natural ones, responsible for the climatic changes.

Before we were around to pollute it, the Earth went through a few ice ages. When each ice age ended, what would you call what happened? I'd say "global warming" might be an apt term.

I do think the earth's weather is likely to undergo variations that take longer than one of our lifespans. So sure, I buy into the idea that we may be in for warmer weather... it certainly seems to be that way. Not that I really want to be reminded...

waves

Waves. I don't really buy into man made global warming either. There where weather changes in the last one thousand years,and there where weather changes in the BC times. The Earth has gone through cataclysms of all kinds before then. Mankind is very bad when it comes to predicting the future. We never get it right. There are two thing assured. Death,and taxes. lol BF

[waves]

Originally Posted by Brokenfriend

Waves. I don't really buy into man made global warming either. There where weather changes in the last one thousand years,and there where weather changes in the BC times. The Earth has gone through cataclysms of all kinds before then. Mankind is very bad when it comes to predicting the future. We never get it right.

I completely agree.

There are two thing assured. Death,and taxes. lol BF

ROFL I love it! And it's too true!

waves