Like a Broken Record
Yesterday's high of 105 easily exceeded the previous July 12 record of 100 degrees (2002). And, as if that wasn't enough breaking of records, the low this morning only got down to 69 degrees, surpassing the previous "hi low" of 65 in 1940.
This should be the end of the record breaking for now; the west wind returned last night.
Speaking of "sounding like a broken record", I suppose that particular phrase dates me hopelessly. Digital music doesn't skip. Only ancient vinyl records skip...records skip... records skip...
digital music can skip if it's burned to a CD and the CD is scratched or if your mp3 player (such as is the case for the one in my car) does not work so good.
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so, how has the wind been this year? is this a "bad" year because of the heat? or has it been pretty much a regular Gorge year?
thanks,
goofy_ft
I stand corrected. But I'm still hopelessly dated.
ReplyDeleteRegarding the wind this year, it's my impression that it has been pretty much normal and occasionally even nuclear. The occasional calm hot days are mostly few and far between.
A few years ago I kept informal records of monthly wind because as a dedicated model airplane flyer, wind is the enemy. I have observed that July is the windiest month yet there always seems to be a calm week, usually at the beginning of the month with up to 4 days of calm. I think the Gorge Games had serious problems in the early 90's because of this. The winds persist through the first of August and by the end of August, although often insufferably hot, the gorge winds begin loosing their punch. It seems to me that this is an average July, unlike last year. My information is strictly empirical, no official data to back this up.
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In your latest poll (June 15) you forgot to give us the following choice: Our esteemed president is a naive and not-overly-intelligent twit who can't see beyond his neoconservative ideology and didn't know that Islam has a number of sects who hate each other's guts (he'd never heard of Sunnism and Shi'ism, according to Peter Galbraith in his excellent book, "The End of Iraq."
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