I hear that it's been pretty hot in Arizona; I think this is why...
Only partly psychic...
I'll have some Belgian waffles and an order of crickets, please.
No way; I've read The Turn of the Screw (H/T to Mrs. Paco).
Art or football? Your call (H/T: Captain Heinrichs)...
And now, an important announcement on mental health (H/T to DoublePlusUndead, which is rapidly becoming the best vantage point from which to observe the collapse of our civilization).
I will eat a lot of things, but I will not ever eat bugs. Not unless it's mudbugs, and even then there better be lots of butter and hot sauce.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link. But if you keep saying nice things about me you're likely to lose friends.
ReplyDeleteThat graphic of AZ is not to scale, AZ is closer.
Last night at 9 it was still 111 degrees.
It was a dry heat, like the Egyptians used to make mummies.
Of course, monsoon season starts soon. We'll still 110 degrees but with the added attraction of 60% humidity instead of the more normal 10%-20%.
Are the authorities asking folks to conserve energy because the grid is being over burdened? The do in California.
DeleteI lived in Phoenix, Tucson, and then near Prescott, so I feel understand. Good luck!
I read the other day that it was so hot in Phoenix, airplane flights were cancelled. Now, that's hot.
ReplyDeleteDoes Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, etc ever cancel flights? Never heard of it, but it doesn't mean they don't.
DeleteVegas got to 128 degrees my daughter says. That's 6 degrees hotter than it got here last summer. She went to see Jerry Seinfeld and said he was very funny, which she didn't expect, him being so old and all.
ReplyDeleteWow, 60% humidity? Here, the local forecasters define 60% humidity as in the 'pleasant' range.
ReplyDeleteAnd it is, compared to 80%. As one local forecaster calls it: "the air that you wear".
BTW, the cancelled flights is just another Chicken Little global warming scare. Some types of aircraft lose some lift at extremely high temps, and may be grounded for safety concerns, but it's not a grounding of all aircraft.
When it hits 25% humidity I have a hard time breathing.
ReplyDeleteWhich is funny considering I moved here from VA, where 60% is 'dry'.
According to the news here, only smaller planes were affected. Ones with smaller thrust/weight ratios. They need heavier air, it gets lighter when it gets hot.
Since it's from a news station I don't know if I'd trust it. That's like playing 'telephone' with a line of idiots, so it might be that larger planes can't take off because the air is too heavy or it was just that the a/c in Jetblue's jets broke down so they couldn't load.
I spent some time in Tucson in June and July about 17 years ago, on an archaeological dig. The first two weeks I about died (I've lived in Western Washington and Oregon for the past thirty some years, so hot weather for me is in the 90s). After about two weeks monsoon season arrived and the temperatures plummetted from 115 to 107. Plus the daily reminder of what the rain Noah had to contend with was like, of course.
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