blessed relief wafts through the window as a light seabreeze kicks up finally. there are no electrical outlets on this side of the livingroom and I don't feel like rummaging up an extension cord--I think the old one has been chewed up by bunnies--so I am satisfying myself with waft instead of full on blast of cool air.
it's nice.
lisagail asked me if it was like atlanta here and I said oh gods no the humidity is low when it is hot and it cools off at night. in atlanta in the summer a 90 degree day will be followed by an 80 degree night and the humidity always hovers around 70% or so and there is no wind unless you get a thunderstorm and of course I was terrified of those.
I guess here the heat only kicks up thunderstorms over the sierra and still not so much even there, right? no humidity to drive them. it's more like desert heat I guess and if I'm going to be the desert aficionado I claim to be I suppose that I had better learn to like this style of hot.
of course when I am a rich and famous poet I will only make my winter home in the desert. summers will be spent as close to the arctic circle as I can get.
or maybe in the southern hemisphere. really it is possible with modern technological advances in transportation never to experience summer at all! goodness me. what am I doing here; I should be in australia.
I remember one particularly hot heatwave in atlanta and my mother telling me well it's hot everywhere and I thought to myself no that can't be right there is no way that this sort of heat can be infinite and omnipresent. I was right of course even if it was 90 in san francisco that day they had a much cooler night here.
it's nice.
lisagail asked me if it was like atlanta here and I said oh gods no the humidity is low when it is hot and it cools off at night. in atlanta in the summer a 90 degree day will be followed by an 80 degree night and the humidity always hovers around 70% or so and there is no wind unless you get a thunderstorm and of course I was terrified of those.I guess here the heat only kicks up thunderstorms over the sierra and still not so much even there, right? no humidity to drive them. it's more like desert heat I guess and if I'm going to be the desert aficionado I claim to be I suppose that I had better learn to like this style of hot.
of course when I am a rich and famous poet I will only make my winter home in the desert. summers will be spent as close to the arctic circle as I can get.
or maybe in the southern hemisphere. really it is possible with modern technological advances in transportation never to experience summer at all! goodness me. what am I doing here; I should be in australia.
I remember one particularly hot heatwave in atlanta and my mother telling me well it's hot everywhere and I thought to myself no that can't be right there is no way that this sort of heat can be infinite and omnipresent. I was right of course even if it was 90 in san francisco that day they had a much cooler night here.
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beginning to cool off
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I laugh because it is /so/ dry here in Colorado that the last time I was in the Bay Area I was totally overcome by how humid it felt. I never would have called it humid there before I came here.
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Glad it's cooling down.
humidity here today was around 20%. how does that compare? it apparently has risen this evening to 100% near the panhandle which makes me wonder just where the fog is. I can't see any from here.
but i cannot explain to you how it differs. our humidity is normally 10% or less. but even your 20% on a warm day wipes me out - it did the last 2 times i was there, last summer especially. and it's an odd humidity because it's laden with salt.
as for the panhandle's current humidity - it's right there on that odd corridor of fog that creeps in over the Cliff House, through the park, and then above the mission. How i miss that. How I miss Albany, where the fog blasts right at you from the Gate, while in Oakland proper it's still dry as could be.
oh god, and how i loved to watch the fog POUR over the top of twin peaks.
funny. R just called totally bitching about the heat, and I told her to wait for that vacuum action that sucks the fog in. i guess it happened tonight, huh?
also funny is how all of a sudden my flist got lit up tonight with bay areans rejoicing for the coolness, even down in the south bay. :)
yeah that little wind shift from NE to W is like a miracle every time it happens.
I've lived in salt-filled air now for almost 20 years. I'm so used to it I don't know how I'd feel living in a place where you can't smell the sea.