Here we are, folks. This is most of why summer is my third-favorite season. Here is the current five-day forecast for my part of the world (thanks, Weather Underground):
Hey, hey! How about an average high temperature of 96.4° for the next five days! How would that be? As I write, it is 94.3° outside, with the arrow on the thermometer’s display indicating an upward trend. Not much to do but sit inside, blog, and listen to the just-subsonic whir of the electric meter going around.
“Hey Bo, at least you get the cooler nights. Those lows don’t look too bad.” Ha! Those lows occur at 3:30 or 4:00 in the morning, for about 75 seconds. At either end of the waking hours, when you might actually want/need to be outside, it’s at least 80° with at least 70% relative humidity. (Generally, the humidity only significantly lessens for the last couple of hours of sunlight.) You want to get the garbage cans in from the street, or put the dogs up? Peachy, man. Budget time for a shower, because you’ll need one.
As you know if you’ve read this blog for any length of time, I have huge love for northern Alabama, and the few weeks of oppressive summer weather we get every year aren’t enough to change that. It’s heavenly most of eight months of the year here. I love it here. No plans to move. Really.
We’re right in the middle right now, though, of my least favorite characteristic of the location. Bitch, bitch, bitch. It’s un-American not to bitch, right?
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Do you remember 3 years ago, we had a cold snap in August? It’s happened twice since I’ve lived here (about 10 years apart). I remember it so well because it nearly ruined 2 birthday parties! 66 degrees was the high that day (august 13). Hmmm. I need something to write about. This may be good. Keeps me out of the sun. Like an idiot, i tried to go for a walk at 9:30 this morning.
It’s pretty stinking hot here, too, and the relief that was supposed to come in the form of wicked thunderstorms never materialized. We had a high of 97 today – yesterday’s high was somewhere close to that – and the humidity is right up there, too. Of course, it’s not going to last – the axiom about New England weather is “if you don’t like it, wait a minute…”