Hows your Weather?
Sleddog46
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Since the weather sucks here in Quinton, NJ, with high temps and higher humidity, I thought I'd ask everyone else "How's your weather"? Maybe we can collectively suffer together or maybe not.
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"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
It's summer. That means heat and humidity broken by thunderstorms. Yesterday, rode Biffy Bullfrog thru Amish country looking for shade grown Connecticut broadleaf. Started nice; turned hotter; became stifling; rode home in refreshing rain. Today, rode Sopowa to herf with a fellow cigar roller in the city. Started nice; turned hotter; became stifling; rode home in air so thick that whiffling through it created enough turbulence to precipitate droplets -- a horizontal rain localized to just me. Now it's thunderbumbling & big drop raining. Temps dropped 15 degrees. Tomorrow when I ride to work, the weather will go like so: start nice; turn hotter; become stifling. After work I'll ride home & it'll thunderstorm.
& people will complain like it's sposed to do anything else.
Way better than the alternative. Where I grew up, SoCal, it started hot, grew hotter, until you could fry an egg on the sidewalk, while we would all brag "... but it's a dry heat". Never humidity, no thunderstorm, no green at all. Hot that melted the tar out of asphalt so it stuck to your shoes. Here at least we got jungle heat. Skeeter heat. Mow twice a day if you wanted to.
All's I gotta say is, God bless Willis Carrier... love that man. Give him all the kilowatts he needs.
-- Winston Churchill
"LET'S GO FRANCIS" Peter
-- Winston Churchill
"LET'S GO FRANCIS" Peter
We have got a lot of rain the last couple weeks also, the gravel hasn't grown a bit but I will take the 80 degree evenings anytime, even if I have to wear a hoody.
My friends down in northern Delaware weren't so lucky this evening. They received 5" of rain in less than an hour. The Red Clay Valley, which begins in PA and continues down to the Delaware River, spilled over its banks around 7:30pm, flooding roads and causing lots of problems.
Some early photos from my friends at the railroad there:
Rolling Mill Road
Barley Mill
Taken from track level on one of our trestles, which is 16' high. You can see the water is almost reaching the crossties.
At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
But, you know, forecasts...