again, same verse as the first
Aug. 29th, 2011 12:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threeplusfireFrom YNN's weather page this afternoon:
You just lived through the hottest temperature ever measured in Austin... Sunday's high of 112at Camp Mabry ties the 112 on 9-5-2000 for the hottest temperature since records began in the 1850s. Wow!
The spike in the heat over the weekend is due to a batch of drier air from the north. SSE winds will start to push Gulf moisture back to our area the next few days. So while the temps will technically go down, it will still feel very hot. A HEAT ADVISORY continues Monday as we're forecasting a high of 107. Also, an OZONE WATCH continues Monday.
It is currently twenty minutes past midnight, and the temperature is only 91F.
I realize that normally incessant yammering about the weather would mean I've become old or lost the ability to have normal human conversations of substance. But this weather is crazy making. I read a news story yesterday about some people in Dallas who denied water to their kid and made him stand in an un-airconditioned room for days as punishment for wetting the bed, which eventually caused him to die of dehydration. I've seen EMS out treating the homeless panhandlers who frequent the nearest highway intersection. The Humane Society lost their AC today because a transformer blew, so they were just giving animals away in hopes that anywhere was better than a broiling box in the sun. We've racked up $5.2 billion dollars of agricultural damage alone from a natural disaster that does not really provide exciting television coverage. It's hard not to think about it all the time because I cannot leave my house without coming smack into it.
The only bright spot of this miserable, hideous summer is that it is too hot for my chucklehead neighbors to sit around washing their cars and playing their car stereos. Hah. The heat mirage silver lining I suppose.
You just lived through the hottest temperature ever measured in Austin... Sunday's high of 112at Camp Mabry ties the 112 on 9-5-2000 for the hottest temperature since records began in the 1850s. Wow!
The spike in the heat over the weekend is due to a batch of drier air from the north. SSE winds will start to push Gulf moisture back to our area the next few days. So while the temps will technically go down, it will still feel very hot. A HEAT ADVISORY continues Monday as we're forecasting a high of 107. Also, an OZONE WATCH continues Monday.
It is currently twenty minutes past midnight, and the temperature is only 91F.
I realize that normally incessant yammering about the weather would mean I've become old or lost the ability to have normal human conversations of substance. But this weather is crazy making. I read a news story yesterday about some people in Dallas who denied water to their kid and made him stand in an un-airconditioned room for days as punishment for wetting the bed, which eventually caused him to die of dehydration. I've seen EMS out treating the homeless panhandlers who frequent the nearest highway intersection. The Humane Society lost their AC today because a transformer blew, so they were just giving animals away in hopes that anywhere was better than a broiling box in the sun. We've racked up $5.2 billion dollars of agricultural damage alone from a natural disaster that does not really provide exciting television coverage. It's hard not to think about it all the time because I cannot leave my house without coming smack into it.
The only bright spot of this miserable, hideous summer is that it is too hot for my chucklehead neighbors to sit around washing their cars and playing their car stereos. Hah. The heat mirage silver lining I suppose.
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Date: 2011-08-29 08:09 am (UTC)I get you on the heat -- it's just relentless, and it wears you down. I hate going outside now; even an errand run in the air-conditioned car wears me out. (I know I have unusually bad heat tolerance, coming from the land of the ice and snow and all, but it's legitimately nauseating.)
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Date: 2011-08-29 09:17 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-08-29 09:13 pm (UTC)Actually, weather is rather fascinating. It's a shame as a topic it has such a bad rap!
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