Re: CHAT: Temperature (was: I'm back!)

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>Y'all have nothing on Texans.  The Dallas Morning News a couple
>weeks ago had an article about how meteorologists were rather
>shocked that North Texas had, up to that point, gone a whole
>summer without temperatures reaching 100F (38C).  In Houston,
>several hundred miles to the south, the *normal* ambient humidity
>is above 80%. (Of course, Texans compensate for such wretched
>climatic conditions by having air-condition available everywhere;
>when I came to Chicago, I was truly shocked that a great many
>apartments did not come with central air-conditioning.)

Out here in California, temperature extremes are much more significant
inland versus coast. I remember a few weeks ago driving through one of the
smaller coastal valleys here that is protected by the coastal mountains
(california used to be a subduction zone, and our mountains follow a north
south axis, save the transverse ranges which run east/west). As I traveled
less than maybe 3 miles, the temperature dropped from 104F to 73F almost a
30 degree change.


I live within two miles of the coast and summer here is always mild. If
the fog rolls in, it can drop to 55F during the day (cool enough to
require a sweater or a light jacket). In fact, i always tell visitors to
Monterey in summer to dress as they would in fall - warm clothes. However,
this summer has been sunnier and with warmer temperatures into the mid
70's F.

Fall and Summer are the best times of year here, and we get sunny weather
and warm temps (although in Winter we can get fairly warm during the day,
but never dropping more than a couple of degrees below freezing at night)




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