Stupid meteorology!

So much for our mini cool down today. It's 97 degrees at Palwaukee Airport (closest official reading to my location. They're still saying a high of 80 for tomorrow. Ahhhhhhhhhh!

J_B, sounds like we'll be a day behind you.

Region, my sister has 2 window units, one upstairs and one downstairs - no competition for today's heat. It was 86F (humidity 46%) in the house this evening when I left. 4 dogs, 2 cats, 3 kids and one cranky woman probably didn't help the inside heat index.

pretty hot day along eastern lake ontario - about 35 C - 43 c humidex .
by 7 pm it started to cool off a bit and we went down to the lake with ehbeth and the dogs ; it was quite lovely by the lake - nice breeze .
just now the rain has started to come down hard - branches are flying through the air . rain pounding the window were i sit - lovely !
hbg

hey hamburger, let go of our rain. we were due that downpour tonight and now we won't get it until tomorrow.....

areas south of Bahstin got walloped last night.
i think they said brockton & stoughton got it the worst.

high winds knocked down trees, utility poles and power lines...

I was in NY for the past few days. And it was brutal. It was 92 degrees yesterday. That may not sound like much, but that was 10 PM. I knew it was record-breaking heat when my Dad didn't complain about me lowering the thermostat on the central air.

Can I just say "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh" Phew! This feels better.

It was interesting to see the climate in our town was the same as London today, and most places in-between were roasting.

Been an exciting evening. Sirens + tornado warning -- spent some time in the basement. Now I'm waiting out a tornado watch that expires at 1 AM.

oh, it (tornado watch) seems to have expired.

whew.

g'night.

nope, spoke too soon

(tired)

er, hi.

nope, it really was canceled, it's just that it showed up on Wunderground before Yahoo.

wasn't this scintillating?

I thought so too.

gawd I'm tired.

g'night (really).

Hey Soz........ feeling ok?

soz, glad it was a false alarm...



28 days later --
current temperature 58.

could be that summer's over up heeyuh in the northeast.

the trees have begun dropping their leaves, and i've been comtemplating turning on the heat the last couple of mornings...

Heh... thanks for asking.

I've been sick for about a month -- cold + some other nasties, then bronchitis, now "temporary asthma." I have medicine that is helping a lot for the last one, but for some reason yesterday was an absolutely awful day, coughing all damn day, really exhausting.

Woke up feeling better, hope today will be an improvement.

All that rain was great for my poor thirsty garden anyway.

Oof. I hope everyone in the path of Ernesto is okay.

went to see our family physician last week - he just likes to see us about once a month .
mrs h told him that she had headaches , felt tired , not sleeping well ...
"ah" , he said ; "something is 'going around again' ; we don't know yet what it is . probably a low level virus , best to get some rest . "
mrs h is beginning to perk up again ; so it is probably a low level virus - not much can be done about it , except to get some rest - and some chickensoup !
hbg

{faxes hamburger some chicken soup}

we did have a large pot - stockpot , i believe - with chicken soup AND matzo balls (i'll even fake sickness to get mrs h to make me some matzo ball soup .
hbg

Oh man would my grandmother's chicken soup with matzo balls ever hit the spot just now...

E.G. has been out of town (back shortly) which has been part of my angst, hate being sick while having to keep up with an active kid and wiith no back-up and a bunch of tornado stuff to deal with on top of everything else. (That's why I stayed up, if there were more sirens I had no way of knowing so I kept an eye on Wunderground. I found out about the first round of sirens/ tornado warning just because a neighbor came over to make sure, sozlet didn't think it was worth mentioning... ah well. She and I had a little talk about that.)