115 and smoky

[XemaSab]

I think I might actually live on the sun. :o

[Sequoia]

1. Where?

[XemaSab]

5. Redding

:o

[Sequoia]

28. Same here.

in Santa Rosa. Where's our blue summer sky and yellow sun. Orange is for Halloween.

[Radio_Lady]

2. OMG, XemaSab. I feel so badly for you.

I can't even think about it -- without airconditioning my brain.

We are in the throes of a perfect day here in Portland. Wish I could share it with you.

Take care,

Lady Ellen in Alpen Knolls

[Kali]

3. sounds like June in southern AZ

any rain in the forecast?

[XemaSab]

6. Nope

We actually had a monsoon-type storm a few weeks ago, and that's what started all the fires. A lot of lightning, a little rain and hail.

[bertha katzenengel]

4. I don't know No. CA geography; are you in danger?

:scared:

[XemaSab]

7. We're not in danger here

but we've got friends who are out in the country, and they're hoping and praying up there. :(

We're in the city, and there's a lot of well-irrigated lawn between us and the fires. :P

[bertha katzenengel]

9. Yah... I remember friends on boards asking me about So. Cali. fires

same thing - well-isolated. Somehow it always made me feel guilty.

[LSK]

8. 115???????????????????????

Series??? Way up there??????

[XemaSab]

11. Yeah

Redding gets hot in the summer. :(

[LSK]

12. I thought it was up in the mountains for some reason

:shrug:

[XemaSab]

13. Oooh, no

We're in teh valley.

Well, depending on who you ask. We're in the valley by some standards, and in the foothills by other standards. :P

[LSK]

14. so to the people in the valley, you would be considered in the mountains

:popcorn:

[XemaSab]

16. And to people in the mountains...

:P

Geographically, we're at the very top of the valley, but in terms of plants and whatnot, we're barely in the foothills.

[LSK]

18. what is the elevation there?

[XemaSab]

19. 500

Red Bluff is about 40 miles south of here, and that's right at the edge of the valley in terms of plants. They're at about 300 feet there. :shrug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. I feel ripped off

It was sposta be like 105, 106 here, but it's only 94. x(

We've got the smoke, too, but it's not like make-ya-cough smoke. More like "That's not the Marine Layer."

This is what it looks like up around Xema's 'hood, y'all. http://www.news10.net/life/gallery/slideshows/Heat_Smoke_and_Fires/Default.aspx?N=0

[BrotherBuzz]

15. How can it be smoky up there when all yours smoke is down here?

It's only 105 today but VERY smoky at my end of the Sacramento Valley.

[Gormy Cuss]

17. Just keeps getting worse, doesn't it?

I can't complain about our high heat because it sucks so much more up your way.

[NJmaverick]

20. HOLY CRAP! What? do you live in the desert?!?!

That's some pretty nasty weather.

[XemaSab]

23. Redding, California

We're not in the desert.

We actually get as much winter rain as Seattle. :P

[XemaSab]

27. Oh, and one day we got 9 inches of rain

Yeah, that was wet. :P

[NJmaverick]

31. 9 inches- geeze!

unbelievable Is the weather usually bad, or it's just that you get some really extreme weather.

[XemaSab]

32. Usually winter is okay

We don't typically get any snow. Spring and fall are nice too, but it'll be 70 one week, then 100, then 75, then 100... it's a little hard to predict. :P

Oh, and by "don't typically," I mean 4 years out of 5 we'll get, like, an inch, and the low will be 25, then the 5th year it'll get down to 10 or there will be a foot of snow. :o

[SPKrazy]

21. Have You Repented Yet?

Repent now, or see another 10 degrees added tomorrow :evilfrown:


we're all depending on you Xema

you musta done something REAL FREAKIN BAD!~!!!!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

22. Do thermometers even go up that high?

:wow:

It was like mid-80s here today, maybe low 90s, and I though I was gonna die. Jesus.

:scared:

[XemaSab]

24. The one on the back porch tops out at 110

:P

[NV Whino]

25. You're 14 degrees ahead of me

But I bet I match you on smoke. Gak.

[Mutley]

26. 78 here.

:P

We do possibly have a hurricane coming our way, though.

[Gormy Cuss]

29. ROFL: look at this attempt to spin good news in the SF Bay area weather:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/09/BAP411M9DN.DTL


Heat backs off a bit

John Coté, Chronicle Staff Writer

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

(07-09) 15:49 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- It's still hot, but not that hot.

Although excessive heat warnings and heat advisories remain in effect in many places in the Bay Area, inland temperatures are a bit less oppressive today than expected. At 3 p.m. it was 104 in Livermore and 103 in Concord - toasty, but short of the marks of 109 and 106, respectively, that were recorded Tuesday.

I'm SO glad that it's only 104 on my patio.
:eyes:

[Arugula Latte]

34. Well, thank goodness it's dipped to a comfortable three-digit temp, eh?

Scary, scary stuff down there...

[Gormy Cuss]

35. This is a very scary summer with drought, heat, and fires.

It's going to be a very long fire season. :scared:

[greendog]

30. Some of your smoke made it to Montana this morning.

Only 87f though.

We had an awful fire season last summer. I'm hoping this year is a little better.

Wild land fires are "interesting" for a few days. After that, they suck.

I hope you get some rain pretty soon.

[Arugula Latte]

33. Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ.

I just talked to my Mom in the Bay Area. They are sweltering, as well, of course. These heat waves California has endured for the last few summers are just so freakish. It just didn't happen with that intensity nor frequency when I was growing up there.

Scares the living crap out of me ... :scared:

Stay safe! :hi: