There's this cute little church on the corner as I drive to work in the morning, and it always puts silly little quotes on its messageboard. Today's made me giggle
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You don't know why everyone's complaining about the heat?
Hmmm let's see, could it be that this is the second-highest I have ever seen my thermometer go in eighteen and a half years of life, and the absolute highest I've ever seen at home? Could it be that I'm about to pass out just walking across the parking lot? Could it be that it never. ever. ever. gets this hot here?
Please don't try to tell me "it's not that bad", you're from California and seem to lack understanding that the rest of the US is not also from California. I've grown up in New Hampshire. I am accustomed to -10 winters and 80 summers. The fact that it is 97 out is absolutely mindblowing to me.
You're used to -10 winters and 80 summers. So am I. Back home, 350 of our days each year are between 55 and 75 degrees. Only I've never dealth with anything like humidity before either--so shouldn't I be even MORE "mindblown" by triple digit temperatures?
I know you've lived there a long time (according to your previous post) but I did spend a summer in NH back in 2003 and I quite distinctly remember temps going into the mid to upper 90's for about a week or two that summer (at least in Manchester). I believe it was in July. And my friends who live there are quite complacent about the fact that about 2 weeks of every year the temps hit the 90's with heat indexes that are higher
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Not sure where you're getting those numbers from, but it's been 90+ for two weeks now. That's not brief.
Usually (I've lived here my entire life, incidentally), also, there is one day that's hot, and it thunderstorms that night or the next day to get us back down to a slightly more reasonable temperature. Those days are spread out throughout the summer - not day after day after day.
I got it from wunderground. You could probably get the same data from the weather history of weather.com or Poor Richards Almanac but wunderground's is easier to access. Also, remember that often recorded temps at airports and such can vary from temps that you will read on your home gauge. Home gauges tend not to be as accurate as the high tech instruments that the weather service uses for official record keeping. And it can be one temp at your house and a few degrees either direction at a neighbors.
The temps of 90's that I reported were generally within a string of successive days, with an occasional 88 or 86 thrown in after a few days.
As for brief, we just have different ideas of what the term brief means. Roughly 4% of the year in my book is just a flash in the pan: heat wave, cold snap, either way.
You just told me it gets to 80 in New Hampshire. It gets to 80 in Santa Barbara too! Yes, it gets to 120 in Death Valley, CA...but that's not where I'm from, nor have i ever spent time there.
Hmmm let's see, could it be that this is the second-highest I have ever seen my thermometer go in eighteen and a half years of life, and the absolute highest I've ever seen at home? Could it be that I'm about to pass out just walking across the parking lot? Could it be that it never. ever. ever. gets this hot here?
Please don't try to tell me "it's not that bad", you're from California and seem to lack understanding that the rest of the US is not also from California. I've grown up in New Hampshire. I am accustomed to -10 winters and 80 summers. The fact that it is 97 out is absolutely mindblowing to me.
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You're used to -10 winters and 80 summers. So am I. Back home, 350 of our days each year are between 55 and 75 degrees. Only I've never dealth with anything like humidity before either--so shouldn't I be even MORE "mindblown" by triple digit temperatures?
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Usually (I've lived here my entire life, incidentally), also, there is one day that's hot, and it thunderstorms that night or the next day to get us back down to a slightly more reasonable temperature. Those days are spread out throughout the summer - not day after day after day.
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The temps of 90's that I reported were generally within a string of successive days, with an occasional 88 or 86 thrown in after a few days.
As for brief, we just have different ideas of what the term brief means. Roughly 4% of the year in my book is just a flash in the pan: heat wave, cold snap, either way.
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