Wednesday, July 14, 2021

It's misting here on the northern California coast

 It's incredibly dry away from the California coast and things are literally and figuratively burning up many places. The highest low temperature ever recorded in the U.S. happened last weekend in Death Valley, California which was 107.7 degrees as a low temperature. I got used to summer temperatures visiting my son of around 100 to 101 degrees especially coming out of a theater at around midnight or 1 am at The River (which is a mall near Palm Springs) then. But, 107.7 degrees is sort of unheard of anywhere on earth for a low temperature and shows in what desperate shape the world is right now that this is happening at all.

But, because of all this heat I looked out my bathroom window this morning onto the street and it was wet. I thought this really was unusual. So, then I walked with our corgi dog out onto our deck in the back yard and not only was the deck completely wet (which makes the trees really happy) but it was also misting on top of this. It is now 11 am and still misting which is sort of unusual unless it is exceedingly hot inland which it likely is and where I am presently on the coast at 11 AM it is only 58 degrees because as it gets hotter inland it gets colder along the northern California coast because it sucks the cold wet air off the ocean and sometimes creates precipitation from evaporation off the ocean like now when it does this. So, as a direct result the hotter it gets inland the colder and wetter it gets along the coast of the ocean of California, Oregon and Washington and likely Canada too.

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