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

[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]

Their loss.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

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

[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!