Ladron De La Noche on 6/7/2007 at 01:27
108 degrees here today, I'm dying. San Joaquin Valley weather, I miss the Bay area winds. :(
I'm tempted to see if I can cook an egg outside, maybe some bacon too.
I envy people with a pool today.
Malygris on 6/7/2007 at 04:02
Beautiful summer here. Quite a bit drier than most years (I'm tempted to use the word "drought," but that's a bit too biblical for my liking, especially in light of Stronts' hilarious link), but very warm, mid to high 20s occasionally reaching to low 30s, and sunny, sunny, sunny. My lawn is pretty much a sun-fucked onion, but on the upside I haven't had to cut it for about a month, either.
Scots Taffer on 6/7/2007 at 04:07
Where's here, Maly?
Malygris on 6/7/2007 at 05:08
Suppose I should've mentioned that I'm talking about southwestern Ontario, a flat, bland and entirely unremarkable patch of the planet that is nonetheless home.
Did get some half-decent rain yesterday actually, although today was sunny and dry, and at this very moment it feels like the temperatures are headed up again.
Scots Taffer on 6/7/2007 at 05:09
Ah, whereas our drought situation is starting to look nothing short of biblical. :(
Mingan on 6/7/2007 at 12:02
Whereas, I, get mid 20's temperatures and sun in the day, followed by gentle rain in the night. This weather roxxorz (unless you're a farmer, obviously).
Dia on 6/7/2007 at 13:02
Typical midwest weather here: one day it's 75(f) and the next it's 98 (and so humid you need to haul around an oxygen tank). I live about 5 miles west of Lake Michigan, so we've been getting a nice cool breeze each a.m. & p.m.
Worst part: even on balmy days the mosquitoes (the ones in the midwest have landing gear) and ticks (I swear they're the size of vampire bats out here) are so bad you need to slather yourself with greasy, oily, smelly insect repellent if you're going to be outdoors for more than five minutes. And of course, the repellent runs down in your eyes when you sweat and stings like hell and then you start hallucinating.
Other than that this summer's been okay so far.
Marecki on 7/7/2007 at 07:45
Believe it or not, it is now significantly hotter in Berkeley than in Los Angeles. Now I've seen everything... and don't you even try distracting us by blaming Dia, Starr! We all know it was you who upset the natural order by importing a large Canadian to California!
littlek on 7/7/2007 at 11:46
Quote Posted by Dia
I live about 5 miles west of Lake Michigan.
We're neighbors! :)
It has been an interesting year for bugs. You would have thought that April deep freeze the Midwest had to endure would have reduced the bug population. It is worse. Skeeters and ticks in the spring and those nasty biting black flies that normally stay where they belong (in Canada) found their way here. I have never seen them in Indiana before. Must be in retaliation of that Canadian-in-CA thing. And now my home is covered by migrating herds of the (
http://www.branchoutburlington.org/images/foresttent.jpg) forest tent caterpillar. There are gajillions of those beasts partying all over my house munching on my dahlias.
