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Post by bjd on Jul 26, 2013 5:44:48 GMT
Well, not really, htmb. I open the windows over the back garden at night, but can't open those in the front because there are stairs and a balcony leading to the second floor. So not much of a draft. And even when there is wind in the day, it seems to die down in the evening. This morning I woke at 6:30 and it was already 26°.
The only advantage is that it's not usually humid here, although today there are some clouds. But any storm forecasts always pass us by, so we don't get anything to clear the air. I watered my garden a bit last night, but it's looking pathetic.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2013 9:52:20 GMT
After awaking to a delightfully cool and rainy morning with rumbling thunder, I was quickly treated to the usual steambath and hot death rays streaming from the sky.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2013 12:02:37 GMT
Our mornings are delightfully cool and well worth waking up early to enjoy. By 10 a.m. though, one feels the intensity of the sun's rays.
I cannot imagine living in a house with no screens on the windows. We would be eaten alive!!!!
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Post by htmb on Jul 26, 2013 12:05:19 GMT
Not to mention the larger critters that would be climbing through the windows, at least here in N Fla!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2013 12:11:21 GMT
Yes, here too!! I had a opossum episode a few weeks ago. I had left a cookie tin of dried cat food on my upstairs balcony. At around 2 a.m. I awoke to a racket. Sure enough, 'twas a big ol fat opossum prying open the tin, successfully, for a midnight snack. No more cookie tins on the balcony after that but I just know they're out there munching on my figs.
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Post by bjd on Jul 26, 2013 12:48:19 GMT
Other than cats (ours or those belonging to neighbours), the only large critters would have two legs and be looking for more than dried cat food.
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Post by htmb on Jul 26, 2013 12:57:46 GMT
We have a few of those around here, too, bjd, though my screens sure won't keep them out. Snakes, opossums, raccoons, squirrels, frogs, and lizards just love it when they find an open window or garage door around here in the southeastern U.S.
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Post by htmb on Jul 26, 2013 13:04:52 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2013 13:44:52 GMT
Even though my grandparents' house in the country had some of the usual country flies, I felt that it was a great novelty to have a house without screens. Anyway, if you give a child a fly swatter, it will keep him busy for two hours. Now I would feel in prison if I had to live behind screens. I haven't had a mosquito in my apartment in at least five years, and even if I open all of the windows, I generally have a grand total of maybe one fly.
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Post by htmb on Jul 26, 2013 14:09:50 GMT
Growing up in central Florida I never attended a school with air conditioning or screens. (Even my freshman year dorm room at UF lacked screens and air conditioning.) Most of the classrooms had big, standing fans to blow the hot air around. I remember there being a big problems with gnats, and at least two years there was an epidemic of pink eye as the gnats spread germs from student to student. I'm sure we didn't have a mosquito problem because of the pesticide trucks spraying the neighborhoods at night (using DDT in the early years, I suppose).
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2014 20:59:58 GMT
We are deep into the "Dog Days" here. Heat index of 105F at present.
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Post by casimira on Jul 1, 2020 23:48:15 GMT
We are deep into the "Dog Days" here. Heat index of 105F at present. Same post, one day apart, 6 years. Exactly what I was going to post.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 2, 2020 7:01:43 GMT
But Florence said the Dog Days are over?
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Post by casimira on Jul 12, 2020 14:59:14 GMT
But Florence said the Dog Days are over? say what? Yesterday the heat index was up to 117F. Over 25,000 people went without power, and, this morning there were still at last glance earlier this a.m. 8,000 in the Uptown area. We gratefully were not in that number somehow. I checked the homes of the people whom I am taking care of and they were fine as well. One home that I am tending to houses thousands of dollars of radio equipment and it is imperative that the temperature not rise above 70F or so. The studio in the rear where my friend paints has an AC running as well. I don't know why this is but, they leave all their AC's running every year while they are gone for a whole month. Today is forecasted to be more of the same.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 14, 2020 9:33:05 GMT
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Post by casimira on Jul 14, 2020 11:11:01 GMT
AHHHH...... let her come on down here today and I venture she wouldn't last more than 24 hours. More of the same today. I awoke to hear the radio announce a Heat Advisory in effect starting at 10a.m.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 14, 2020 20:50:17 GMT
Is it stormy?
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Post by casimira on Jun 13, 2021 16:12:31 GMT
They're here... presently 90F . Heat index to rise to 105F by 3pm. Zippo energy, I feel like a sloth. And, there's a tropical disturbance or two brewing in the Gulf.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 13, 2021 16:23:18 GMT
It has been about 28° in Paris for the last 5 days or so. I'm not complaining but, the complaints are probably not far off.
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Post by casimira on Jun 28, 2023 15:55:33 GMT
HEAT ADVISORY for all this week. Dangerous heat with no relief in sight. Today, after an early (5 a.m.) bike ride I could already feel it coming on.
It's forecasted to be 104F with a heat index of 118Fish.
No rain forecasted thus far.
I have said this in years gone by and maybe it's just my age but I have never endured this much heat likely ever.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 28, 2023 16:36:12 GMT
Basically, most of Europe is in a heat advisory. And a lot of the rest of the world.
We are going to hell in a handbasket.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 28, 2023 19:31:09 GMT
It's cooler here in Leicester this week..altho the night time temperatures aren't really dropping much. It's very muggy still...but at least it's not so hot.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 29, 2023 5:55:31 GMT
It's been so hot & muggy the last couple of days, but around four o'clock the temperature dropped & the rains came.
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Post by casimira on Jul 2, 2023 16:32:29 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Jul 3, 2023 13:23:20 GMT
With Global Climate Change, we are having to learn new weather words, like “Heat Dome” and “Polar Vortex”…I’m sure there’s more weather types that many of us never used to experience till recent years.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 3, 2023 15:57:54 GMT
We have settled into "normal weather" in Paris. Not too hot, not too cool, not too sunny, not too cloudy. It's been so long since this happened that is seems unusual.
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