Comments | mariness: Ah, the good old smoky times.

mariness

Ah, the good old smoky times.

May 08, 2007 22:03

So having completely assured my mother this morning that my coughing was not, repeat not, caused by asthma induced by the intermittent clouds of smoke wafting through the greater Orlando area, I came home to Pompano, stepped out into a rather not-at-all intermittent cloud of smoke and promptly started a nice smoke induced asthma cough ( Read more... )

fires, hurricanes, smoke, weather

Comments 17

chattycatsmeow May 9 2007, 02:37:43 UTC

The smoke was very heavy over here all day, so I'm hoping the winds shift and clear the smoke out instead of bringing it in. As for the Wild & Windy Weather on Sunday, I'm just hoping that wasn't some sort of Signs or Portent. If it happens again the next time we meet up....

mariness May 9 2007, 02:40:19 UTC

We can hire ourselves out as rain gods! It would solve all of our problems!

chattycatsmeow May 9 2007, 02:45:34 UTC

Shoot, then you need to come to my house next time because, DAMN are we in dire straits up here! :D

mariness May 9 2007, 02:49:01 UTC

But will your home town pay our fee?

cardinalximinez May 9 2007, 02:59:33 UTC

It was yellow out the office window this afternoon, and I saw flakes of ash blowing around on the drive home.

mariness May 9 2007, 03:29:28 UTC

We're nowhere near that bad here, but the smoke definitely reached a visible stage.

tamargrl May 9 2007, 03:19:07 UTC

"This could be an interesting year."

Well, we had snow in April (and not even April 1st) so I think that's a correct assessment. Just hopefully not too interesting. *fingers crossed*

mariness May 9 2007, 03:30:15 UTC

Yeah, we were unseasonably warm in January and unseasonably cold in April. Which actually may mean absolutely nothing in regards to hurricane season.

stevenglassman May 9 2007, 04:36:45 UTC

::sigh::

mariness May 9 2007, 04:55:22 UTC

Still love the icon :)

lyndarama May 9 2007, 04:54:04 UTC

It has not rained here for perhaps two months and last night and today has rained like a monsoon. Glorious, glorious stuff, especially since some knob decided to backburn (to prevent bushfires) when it is bone dry and the whole town has smelled like a wood fire for a week...having not rained for months, now it will most likely flood.

Australia: land of contrasts...

mariness May 9 2007, 04:55:57 UTC

The rainy season supposedly starts around May 20th, which should help -- Sunday's storm was quite a harbinger.

lyndarama May 9 2007, 05:12:56 UTC

Nothing is consistent here; except for the extremes. Strangely, it has not been nearly as hot here as when I first moved: it was regularly in the high 30's (c) and 100% humidity; this last summer has been mild.

In Sydney, where my family live, it has been 45C one week, 14C the next.

I'm not quite far North enough to experience a true wet season (in the Top End it floods for months; no way in, no way out) but have been told that it was always a lot wetter here; summers characterised by heavy rains and lush greenry - you know; the Tropics.

Anyone who thinks the weather isn't changing, and quickly, should come to Australia and experience it for themselves.

mariness May 9 2007, 12:20:57 UTC

Yep -- although of course the planet has done so before, and will do so again, and I'll still agree with the uncertainty about how much of the changes are human related.

Which doesn't mean that we shouldn't take the rapid increase in atmospheric carbon concentrations seriously. We absolutely should, with the awareness that increased CO2 levels affect far, far more than just weather patterns -- plankton concentrations and fish stocks, acid, runoff, soil degredation and so on. (I get a bit frustrated when the excitement over CO2 levels focuses on global warming, which is extremely difficult to monitor/understand, and ignores the pretty clear and evident erosion effects.)

On that note I shall carefully water my plants on the porch -- carefully because we're on water restrictions, plants because that does help in its tiny little way.