@Yvonne Smith Yes, I was looking forward to it this week and especially spending time with my sisters who I really miss right now. But I have to use wisdom here too. So I'm still looking forward to my trip, it will just be later on instead of now.
Yes, we are now in Tropical Storm/Depression and Hurricane Season. Right before the season begins is when all of the "Snowbirds" get out of town and head back north. Since living here, we've been thru two Tropical Storms. One was a lot of rain and the other a lot of wind. Been thru one Hurricane that was some 50 miles off of our coast. We stayed in our apartment and everything was fine. Again, lot of rain and wind, but nothing really serious. Let's see, what would we rather take, the Tropical Storm or outter-bands of a Hurricane in Florida or the t-storms, snow storms and blizzards of where we lived in Colorado? We'd take the snow over the Tropical and Hurricane stuff any day. Tornado's in Colorado pretty much only hit on the eastern plains and we didn't live there.
I have definitely made the right decision in postponing my trip to Florida for now. The Weather man is predicting things should be okay in about 5 days but until that time there is rain, wind, good possibility of flooding and some tornadoes along the Gulf Coast States. I pray it will not be to bad for any of us living in the Coastal States. Today here in Lafayette we have rain chances all day long. It's a very good day to finish reading the book I started a few days ago and to bake my banana walnut chocolate chip bundt cake with my ripe bananas. And for lunch I am going to have a nice sandwich with my fresh off the vine tomato slices. Feeling really blessed this morning. Hope all of you feel your blessings this day too.
'Tis the first day of summer, fa la la, la la. Another season went and another steps in to declare.....uh, hey bud....you're getting older. Yup, I have seen 66 summers and going on the 67th so in a positive and mathematical sense, I am batting a thousand. The ones that are past had their own special times and whether good or bad, I am alive to observe still another. All in all, it's a good start.
Forgot it was the first day of summer, guess in Fresno you try to forget that since it has felt like summer for awhile now. Today we will be 110 and it's not totally dry , humidity is 57%. My A/C has been running 24/7 and I'm really dreading my next month's bill. I don't see a cool off yet but hope we at least get back to some double digits. youve seen one more summer than I have @Bobby Cole.
Again, you have managed to place an oxymoron on my table. I "like" your update but hate it for you to have to worry about the negatives associated with the season. Too bad we can't all live in low humidity weather like @Frank Sanoica and be able to use a swamp cooler which costs less than a third of conventional A/C.
Okay, @Bobby Cole and @Chrissy Cross, have I lost a day again? Because I just brought my husband to work a little while ago for his Tuesday Grocery truck day. And my Calendar is showing the 1st day of Summer is on Wednesday the 21st. So what am I missing here?
'Tis the first day of summer, fa la la, la la. Another season went and another steps in to declare.....uh, hey bud....you're getting older. Yup, I have seen 66 summers and going on the 67th so in a positive and mathematical sense, I am batting a thousand. The ones that are past had their own special You are exactly correct. I could tell you that I enjoy being early for all things but this time I was unfortunately mislead by this morning's local talk show host. Still, I am now doubly prepared to meet the solstice head on!
I believed you but then I seldom know what day it is anymore. All I know is today I put the garbage out and tomorrow they take it and I bring the cans back in. Tuesday and Wednesday are my important days.
And in the south, it's the first winter day. Temperature was fine this morning, around 3°C or 37.4F. Kind of cold but sunny. All the citric fruits are ripe and sweet. There's even a festival to celebrate the winter and its fruits. This one is 'The Tangerine Festival', there's even a Queen and 2 Princesses who participate in a Parade on the main street of the village . Everything is very simple, and it happens in a small town about 40 km from my place, where people still talk in German on the streets due to the first settlers who moved here almos 200 years ago.
@Chrissy Cross @Bobby Cole "Too bad we can't all live in low humidity weather like @Frank Sanoica and be able to use a swamp cooler which costs less than a third of conventional A/C." I had no idea Fresno got that hot! 110F @ 57% R.H. is a recipe for very possible bodily harm. Now, OTOH, today we have here 123`F @ 3% humidity, but needless to say, this is where it begins to go "hotter than Hell", rather than the usual Desert "hot as Hell'. The old swamper is doing marvelously well, my nearby thermometer reads 80`, and I feel perfectly comfortable, no sweating at all. To achieve such a drop in temperature by simply evaporating water is truly amazing, to me. Without resorting to tables and calculations, I will guess the humidity in our house right now is somewhere around 30%, that water vapor being contributed by the cooler. At 57%, which we WILL be experiencing in another month or so, not continually, but at the whim of the "Monsoon" activity, the cooler will become more and more inefficient, and my wife will first request, then "demahnd" that I turn the cooling chore over to the conventional A/C. I hate to do that. The very sound of an A/C compressor on start-up gives me the "willies". Frank
Yes, Fresno gets almost as hot as AZ, always a few degrees cooler though. Right now we're not too humid.