We had a couple of showers in succession overnight, and the morning is cooler than it has been in several weeks, with plenty of clouds and a nice breeze, with the air rain-freshened. No doubt, it will be quite hot later, but I'll enjoy the morning.
Starting off much better today with clouds again, northeast wind, and light rain. Yesterday it did not get as hot as forecast because of persistent cloud cover. Anything to get relief from heat. I'd hate to live in the desert Southwest. Arizona, Nevada-- they are baking. Payback for all the fossil fuel consumption, and all the greed. Nature takes no prisoners and has no mercy. And I like that, I guess. The laws of physics are inexorable, inescapable, implacable, and exacting. Attempt to defy them and you pay the price. Ignore them and you could easily die-- just as humanity will die, trapped in the mass extinction event that human beings created by breeding like rats and gobbling resources as though they were infinite, as though greed had no consequences.
But above 100 F, still, as the heat goes on. The weekend might be more endurable. Amazing the temperature extremes we've had in the past few years, from near zero F in the winter to many days of temps above 100 F in the summer. The worst of both extremes. Heat domes compete with bomb cyclones and polar vortices to make life miserable, or at the very least, uncomfortable. You can burn or you can freeze. Name your poison. You'll get both.
110 F was a record high for the date yesterday. It was bad but not the worst, which was 114 sometime in July of 1995. It's a rough July, for sure.
Off to a warm start today! I got some outdoor work done early, to avoid the heat to come.
