Yep, mid 90s here west. so my daughters house (with ac) was really nice. Today it's about 10 degrees lower, so did my grocery shopping earlier. At least, next Monday's supposed to be only 71, but then it climbs til it's 89 on the 11th of August. This is not normal! I'm actually thinking of investing, next spring/summer in one of those new little portable Acs!
I am aware of the heat in the Pacific Northwest recently. I know that temperatures have been in the 100's in places like Medford, Pendelton and Wenatchee, with the heat extending into British Columbia. It's been long while since I have been in that area, Coos Bay more specifically. I was not as interested in botany at the time but I remember the enormous leaf size of the big leaf maple;; nothing like our sugar maples and red maples here in Upstate New York.Yep, mid 90s here west. so my daughters house (with ac) was really nice. Today it's about 10 degrees lower, so did my grocery shopping earlier. At least, next Monday's supposed to be only 71, but then it climbs til it's 89 on the 11th of August. This is not normal! I'm actually thinking of investing, next spring/summer in one of those new little portable Acs!
I am aware of the heat in the Pacific Northwest recently. I know that temperatures have been in the 100's in places like Medford, Pendelton and Wenatchee, with the heat extending into British Columbia. It's been long while since I have been in that area, Coos Bay more specifically. I was not as interested in botany at the time but I remember the enormous leaf size of the big leaf maple;; nothing like our sugar maples and red maples here in Upstate New York.
It remains consistently very warm here but rain is more abundant. We had our 13'th day in the 90's this year yesterday.
Julian of Nirwich, Sorry I took so long to respond. Actually I hitchhiked around the US, Canada and Mexico for some time around 1974 when I was in my early 20's. I was in Coos Bay for about a week at a youth hostel and was in Spokane for about a month. Spokane was rather arid whereas Coos Bay was more similar to your area.
Upstate New York has beautiful autumns, but New England is even nicer with its quaint antique villages amidst autumn landscapes.
Our area is at tmes rather moist and when it does become hot it can be rather humid, unlike southern California in the summer. Rainfall can be rather abundant in the summer generally occurring in combination with thunderstorms which are relatively short lived but can bring intense rainfall. For the most part summer weather is sunny. Overcast skies predominate in the late fall and early winter with lake effect or lake enhanced precipitatiin.
The Canadian arctic is alreading experiencing falling temperatures ( a sign of autumn's return) with readings in places like Alert and Issachsen already consistently experiencing subfreezing temperatures round the clock.
I forgot to add the mnus signs. The low yesterday at Vostok was -107.7 F (-77.6 C).
Vostok, a Russian weather station in the Antarctic, which has recorded the lowest temperature in the world, recorded a low yesterday of -107.7 F (-77.6C)