a weather update
We made it until the hottest part of the summer. Last week the semi-permanent Azores high, AKA the Bermuda high, finally strengthened and shifted west and to a point where it can exert influence on the east coast. For me this means dew points on par with the tropics, which means the temperature doesn't drop out of the 70's at night and I lay in bed with a fan next to me muttering something about how heat is supposed to have a somnolent effect. I actually take a minute each day and revel in the fact that the sun has about 2 fewer minutes to shine and heat the earth at this latitude. I celebrate the solstice when the days start getting shorter, and I celebrate this past week when we climatologically start getting cooler.
The shift in the Bermuda high also means that hurricanes coming across the Atlantic tend to hit the coast instead of curve out to sea, but this year isn't particularly promising for them anyway. El Nino is back and strengthening, which means hurricanes get sheered apart, I get a stormier albeit warmer winter, and california gets all kinds of fun weather.
Amundson-Scott Antarctic research station - Low this "morning" (sun won't rise for another 7 weeks) of -80. I will make it there some day.
The shift in the Bermuda high also means that hurricanes coming across the Atlantic tend to hit the coast instead of curve out to sea, but this year isn't particularly promising for them anyway. El Nino is back and strengthening, which means hurricanes get sheered apart, I get a stormier albeit warmer winter, and california gets all kinds of fun weather.
Amundson-Scott Antarctic research station - Low this "morning" (sun won't rise for another 7 weeks) of -80. I will make it there some day.