Perspective

[jhetley]

For those of you on the outer boundaries of Hell (the hot one, not the small town in southeastern Michigan) I will note that our current temperature is 68 F, sunny, with a light breeze, and a projected high of 82 F (about 27 C).  We consider this "rather warm."

This memorandum ties directly to winter conditions, where we report -20 F and you people (Texas, California, you know who you are) reply with lows of 60 F . . .

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

...but a low of 60 degrees is such an incredibly rare treat--like clouds! It has to be reported!

(Current mantra, only five months of summer to go...)

Fresh Raspberries, from Cleveland, where it will probably snow in October

[summers-place.livejournal.com]

PPPhhhbbbbtttttthhhhh! ;-)

[ellarien]

82 is about what we're getting for lows in southern Arizona lately.

I'm leaving for the UK in a couple of days, and trying to get my head (and my suitcase) around the idea that the temperatures there are currently about what I consider winter conditions around here.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

But at least aggressive cacti, scorpions, and rattlesnakes are rare in the UK.

[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

Read, acknowledged, and accepted in the good humor in which it was intended. Yep, your high is pretty close to the low I faced when I went to work this morning: the only good side to the heat is that one of my new pitcher plants absolutely adores it. The blasted thing looks like a Gorgon's head from all of the traps it's putting out.

[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

Their loss.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Well, Edward Abbey used to say that the flora and fauna kept the riffraff out . . .

[lolleeroberts.livejournal.com]

I recall telling you (and others in New England) sometime last February or March that you would have your revenge. Hey! Here it is! Enjoy!

I'm sitting here watching my electric meter whirl as the air conditioning keeps life livable here.

[ellarien]

There is that. (I always feel a bit sorry for the cacti in the Sheffield botanical gardens glasshouses, which obviously don't get quite enough light or warmth to be really happy.)

Living in a very urban area, I haven't yet seen a snake or a scorpion in the wild here. (A colleague who lives further out, though, has had both in his house.) Plenty of cacti, though, and they can get vicious if I get too close with the camera!