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  • Re: Over The Hedge: It Was So Hot

    From John Savard@21:1/5 to lynnmcguire5@gmail.com on Mon Jul 8 19:22:51 2024
    On Sun, 30 Jun 2024 18:18:27 -0500, Lynn McGuire
    <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

    Over The Hedge: It Was So Hot …
    https://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2024/06/30

    That you could fry an Apatosaurus egg on the back of a Ankylosaurus.

    As it happens, here in Edmonton, where I live, an extreme heat warning
    is in effect. However, the hot weather here is not nearly as bad as in
    other regions of Canada, let alone the United States. Today's expected
    high is 83 degrees Fahrenheit.

    This was enough that when I decided to add a photograph of Edmonton's
    monument to the Holodomor to the front page of my web site, I used one available for Creative Commons licensing from Wikipedia, at least for
    now, instead of hopping on the bus downtown to take my own picture of
    it.

    http://www.quadibloc.com/desk.htm

    John Savard

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  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to quadibloc@servername.invalid on Tue Jul 9 08:58:23 2024
    On Mon, 08 Jul 2024 19:22:51 -0600, John Savard
    <quadibloc@servername.invalid> wrote:

    On Sun, 30 Jun 2024 18:18:27 -0500, Lynn McGuire
    <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

    Over The Hedge: It Was So Hot …
    https://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2024/06/30

    That you could fry an Apatosaurus egg on the back of a Ankylosaurus.

    As it happens, here in Edmonton, where I live, an extreme heat warning
    is in effect. However, the hot weather here is not nearly as bad as in
    other regions of Canada, let alone the United States. Today's expected
    high is 83 degrees Fahrenheit.

    We're getting up into the 90s for the third day, although it may drop
    a bit tomorrow.

    When I open the Win10 News thingy and click on the "Weather Alert", I
    get a map showing the various high-temp areas in various colors, only
    some of which correspond to the colors on the legend (apparently,
    there is a "Fire Weather Watch" color overlaid on it without
    documentation or a control button).

    What I find amazing is how the areas follow the US/Canadian border so
    closely. And how similarly-tinted areas are labled one thing on the
    south and another on the north of the border.

    I never "knew" that the weather/climate followed international
    boundaries so closely ...

    The heat I am feeling is, of course, adequate proof that, however
    wierd the maps may be, things are definitely hot around here.

    This was enough that when I decided to add a photograph of Edmonton's >monument to the Holodomor to the front page of my web site, I used one >available for Creative Commons licensing from Wikipedia, at least for
    now, instead of hopping on the bus downtown to take my own picture of
    it.

    http://www.quadibloc.com/desk.htm

    John Savard
    --
    "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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  • From Scott Lurndal@21:1/5 to Paul S Person on Tue Jul 9 16:16:05 2024
    Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:
    On Mon, 08 Jul 2024 19:22:51 -0600, John Savard ><quadibloc@servername.invalid> wrote:

    On Sun, 30 Jun 2024 18:18:27 -0500, Lynn McGuire
    <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

    Over The Hedge: It Was So Hot =85
    https://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2024/06/30

    That you could fry an Apatosaurus egg on the back of a Ankylosaurus.

    As it happens, here in Edmonton, where I live, an extreme heat warning
    is in effect. However, the hot weather here is not nearly as bad as in >>other regions of Canada, let alone the United States. Today's expected
    high is 83 degrees Fahrenheit.

    We're getting up into the 90s for the third day, although it may drop
    a bit tomorrow.

    Hit 114 here briefly on Saturday afternoon (it was 58 at daybreak, and
    had dropped into the mid 60's by midnight). Typical summer day.

    Was 50F (10C) at daybreak today, expecting mid 90's by 1300.

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  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 10 08:44:49 2024
    On Tue, 09 Jul 2024 16:16:05 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
    wrote:

    Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:
    On Mon, 08 Jul 2024 19:22:51 -0600, John Savard >><quadibloc@servername.invalid> wrote:

    On Sun, 30 Jun 2024 18:18:27 -0500, Lynn McGuire
    <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

    Over The Hedge: It Was So Hot =85
    https://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2024/06/30

    That you could fry an Apatosaurus egg on the back of a Ankylosaurus.

    As it happens, here in Edmonton, where I live, an extreme heat warning
    is in effect. However, the hot weather here is not nearly as bad as in >>>other regions of Canada, let alone the United States. Today's expected >>>high is 83 degrees Fahrenheit.

    We're getting up into the 90s for the third day, although it may drop
    a bit tomorrow.

    Hit 114 here briefly on Saturday afternoon (it was 58 at daybreak, and
    had dropped into the mid 60's by midnight). Typical summer day.

    Was 50F (10C) at daybreak today, expecting mid 90's by 1300.

    With a couple of burbles, it only starting getting hot late last week.
    Up to them we were basking (if that's the word) in the mid-70s at
    best. With cloudy periods and some light rain.

    There is a /reason/ the early settler's referred to the PNW as "God's
    country". And it had a lot to do with the climate vs the rest of the
    country.

    For a while, it looked like it might be one of the years (rare, but
    not too rare) where the hot stuff waits until August. That ship has
    sailed. The /rare/ years are the ones where we look back in late
    September and realize that, if Summer == hot sunny days, then our
    Summer that year consisted of two days in mid May.

    Now that the arrival of Summer is confirmed, we will see how long
    September (defined as "things get cool, grey, and wet") lasts. Some
    years it started the last week in August -- once it took until
    mid-October! And that was before the really hot stuff of the past
    decade or so.
    --
    "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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