Heat of the solstice
Despite Sevillan soup recipes to the contrary, summer has been sluggish in arriving. Until now. In the last few days we’ve most definitely entered the sticky-keyboard times of haze, long, hot days whose soundtrack is the white noise of mowing and the droning whine of wasps building nests in the fluorescent light fixtures. All that’s standing between me and a short vacation by the sea in Catalonia are seven days and an end-of-term report that oppresses me more as I put off the writing of it, and as the mercury rises.
Forecastfox pops up a special blistery-red icon, one I’ve never encountered before, for days when the temperature excedes 30° C. Startling after an endless succession of benevolent little sun symbols.
Magda meanwhile is suffering through this weather with so-called morning sickness that leaves her beached on the floor or the sofa nearly all day long while Adam drives Thomas the Tank Engine around and around her supine, sticky body. During her previous pregnancy we were living 1,000 km apart for the first two months, so I wasn’t there to witness her misery. I hope either the heat or the nausea breaks soon.
Or both. Both would be good.
I hope both Magda and the temperature take a turn for the better soon. She must be miserable and by proxy so must you all be.
That blistery be-tentacled thermometer is disturbing.
Comment by Jagosaurus — Wednesday 21 June 06 @ 19.11 MDT+2.00
Thanks. It is pretty miserable. Now Forecastfox has a little thundercloud up, with lightning shooting out, so we may get some relief on one front.
Comment by sgazzetti — Thursday 22 June 06 @ 07.56 MDT+2.00
Saying that Nova Gorica had 31°C yesterday is deluding. The true picture showed 33°C and a disturbing level of humidity.
I think that number (31) was measured in Bilje where the weather station is. It always shows a slightly lower number than it really is (usually there’s a difference of 2°C).
Comment by MiamiDreams — Thursday 22 June 06 @ 08.50 MDT+2.00
I hope so although you know that could just mean that you will have to deal with the exact same heat now carried on a thick blanket of steam.
Comment by Jagosaurus — Thursday 22 June 06 @ 13.55 MDT+2.00
I’m sure you’re right, Miami — it does always seem a bit off temperature-wise. But for browser-borne weather reporting, I can’t complain. Except about the heat.
And the humidity.
Now the new mystery is why it’s giving temps over 30° but with a cheerful sun instead of that evil thermometer icon…
Comment by sgazzetti — Thursday 22 June 06 @ 16.04 MDT+2.00
Maybe the paprika-like thermometer was too scary even for them :))
Imagine living in a heated pot, like we do :))
Summer time is a weird thing. I’m always waiting impatiently for it to come, but the 2nd day of heat, I run out of all bad words I know, cursing the evil sun and the humidity (that especially).
Comment by MiamiDreams — Thursday 22 June 06 @ 19.40 MDT+2.00