You guys and your "trickle down" heat waves.

[Arctic Dave]

All your record breaking heat waves is evaporating all the water and it is landing on MY head. Darn it!

"Yes, agrees Weather Service, it's been a miserable summer"

This summer has so far been one of the coldest, gloomiest and wettest on record for Southcentral Alaska, the National Weather Service confirmed today.

Should a drop of rain fall Friday -- and forecasters say it likely will -- Anchorage will have tied its record for the most consecutive rainy days.

The unshakable rain and cool weather are the result of a low-pressure system that's been stagnant over the Bering Sea since early June and helping funnel tropical moisture into the state, said forecaster Shaun Baines.

"Almost the whole summer we've had this low pressure sitting over the Bering Sea with that onshore flow, and we just get one little system after another just rotating right over top of us," Baines said. "So it's a lot of moisture off the water, a lot of clouds."



Read more: http://www.adn.com/2010/08/12/1407352/yes-says-weather-service-its-been.html#ixzz0wR7yHxlo

[msongs]

1. so cal's cooler than normal summer is great, but is likely to warm up next week finally nt

[Arctic Dave]

3. Cooler? Like 70ish?

Are you mocking me? :D

[Blue_In_AK]

2. Boy, ain't it the truth?

We've been waiting all summer for a couple of good days so we could go camping. It looks like we MIGHT get a break early next week, so we're going to make a run for Valdez and keep our fingers crossed.

This summer SUCKED.

[Arctic Dave]

6. I thought I was living back in Juneau this summer.

My toes are starting to web. :D

[CreekDog]

4. Coolest July in San Francisco since 1971

Yikes. Froze my butt off at last night's Giants' game.

I was warmer in Anchorage than I've been at home here in SF.

"With an average monthly maximum July temperature of just 63.1 degrees, San Francisco had its coolest July since 1971 and the 13th coolest in the past 97 years. Only one day reached the 70 degree mark (72 degrees on 7/3 and no day after the 17th exceeded 64 degrees."

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/08/02/july-in-san-francisco-coolest-since-197/

[Arctic Dave]

5. Hey! How was your trip?

Were you able to go out and see the sights?

[CreekDog]

8. It was a great trip

Homer, Hope, Girdwood, Matanuska, Denali, Valdez and lots of camping without a flashlight.

[Arctic Dave]

18. Nice. I hope the weather was good for ya.

[CreekDog]

38. for AK it was good

meaning only bad about half the time.

[Blue_In_AK]

11. I was living in Bolinas in 1971.

Wasn't that a really rainy year, too? I think I remember somebody's house being taken out in mud slide.

[scarletwoman]

16. Whoa, there! Bolinas? You lived in Bolinas?

I lived in Bolinas for a short while back in 1987. You're the first person I've ever come across (outside of California) who's even heard of Bolinas, much less lived there!

Like, not only do we share a brain, we share a MAP! Woot!

:D
sw

[Blue_In_AK]

27. Awesome, huh!!?

Yes, I was there from 1971 to 1974. My oldest daughter was born in a house on Birch Street, up on the bluff, and was delivered by Helen Swallow, who was the midwife there. I believe she had moved on by the time you lived there, but she was a wonderful midwife. The birth was quite the event. The place was full of friends by the time Heather finally made her appearance at 6:00 a.m. News spreads fast there. Those were the days.... :hippie:

I loved my time in Bolinas. Playing music on the beach, sharing a little herb with your friends, you know ... fresh abalone, garden veggies. :) Mmm. Yeah, Bolinas was good.

[scarletwoman]

31. When I was there it felt like Bolinas was a place caught in a time warp.

Sort of a Brigadoon kind of thing. Almost an island, except for the thin piece of earth that connects it to the mainland.

I honestly don't have many clear memories of Bolinas, I was there as something of refugee, with some traumatic stuff going on my life.

I wasn't there long, and ended up heading further north to the Colestine valley in southern Oregon, taking refuge in a Tibetan Buddhist retreat center and living in a tipi.

It just amazed me to read your post mentioning Bolinas -- years later when I'd try to talk to folks about Bolinas, no one EVER knew what the hell I was talking about. No one knew the place existed.

Anyway, what a beautiful place to give birth to your daughter! Has she ever been back there as an adult?

[Blue_In_AK]

32. Yes, she's been back

as an adult. We left California when she was 3, and the stories of Bolinas and the beach were kind of a mythical tale for her, so she felt compelled to seek it out later for a visit. My husband and I have been back there a couple of times in the past few years, as well, and I was thrilled to find some of my old friends still living there.

As to the rest of your story, you're not going to believe this, but I too moved north to Oregon from Bolinas briefly and lived in a sort of commune near Takilma. Actually, we were just a bunch of squatters, but we didn't call ourselves that at the time. :rofl: We bought a 28-foot tipi kit from someplace in southern Washington, and I sewed it up on a treadle sewing machine out there in Takilma. I spent many hours shaving bark off the poles we cut down. (I can't believe we were being so "lawless" in a national forest, and there's even more to the story which I won't go into here.) We ended up going down to the Panamint Mountains and living in the tipi for a while until it got too cold.

If you tell me you spent time in the Panamint Mountains, I'll KNOW we've entered the Twilight Zone.

[left is right]

26. didn’t Mark Twain say something about the coldest

winter he ever spent was the summer he spent in San Francisco?

[CreekDog]

37. no he didn't that's an urban legend

but it sure could be true! :D

[eleny]

7. The mosquitoes must be big enough to grill on a spit by now

[Arctic Dave]

12. You can feed a family of four with an average mosquito

:D

[a la izquierda]

9. for the love of god...

send the rain to Oklahoma. we're baking here. we haven't had rain in Norman since July 4. our lawn is dead, which is fine with me...but, the trees are dying too.

[Arctic Dave]

13. I put some in an envelope for ya.

I'll through in an ice cube for free. :D

[a la izquierda]

17. Thank you!!!!

We need it.

[Blue_In_AK]

14. This is the first year in quite a while

that I haven't had to water my garden once the plants were well established. The down side is that I'm not sure my beans will be mature by the time the snow flies.

[a la izquierda]

19. I'm jealous...

the city sent us a letter questioning our very high water use.
I laughed and told them we were trying to save our veggie garden. I guess this has been a fairly common occurrence this summer.

[smokey nj]

10. I wish you'd send some of that my way. It's been miserable here all summer.

[Arctic Dave]

15. NJ. You're getting the humidity too.

Try not melt, fall is coming.

[scarletwoman]

20. The first summer I lived in Willow (1989) it rained every damn day for a solid month.

I just can't remember which month it was. All I remember is that I'd never in my life lived anyplace where it rained day after day after day for a good 30 days running.

And it seemed to me, for the 6 years I lived there, that there was always one month of near constant rain every summer. Which month it was varied from year to year, June, July, August -- but there was always one month of clouds and rain.

Two months of sun, one of rain, and then winter... :P

sw

[Arctic Dave]

21. At least you weren't in Juneau, it rains for the entire year there.

Even ducks hate Juneau.

[scarletwoman]

22. My friends in Willow always said Southeast Alaska should be part of Washington state.

They never considered Southeast the "REAL" Alaska.

Of course, a lot of those folks were still adamant about moving the Capitol to Willow, too. :D

sw

[Arctic Dave]

23. They must have been part of the "North Seattle" crowd.

They probably say the I live in "Los Anchorage" too. :D

[Blue_In_AK]

28. This year it's been pretty much clouds and rain all summer.

We haven't gotten out as much as we'd like because it's just too wet. I know a lot of people up here don't mind tramping around in the rain and fog, but it's not my cup of tea. So we sit at home and check 10-day forecasts all summer. It's looking bleak.

[scarletwoman]

29. Bummer. I really feel for ya.

Summer's so short, what a drag to have it clouded over!

Up in Willow I dreaded when the rain came late in the summer, it meant super-saturated ground come freeze-up, then unbelievable knee-deep mud come break-up. Our driveway was almost a quarter mile long, it would become completely unusable for 2-3 weeks in the spring.

I got into terraforming in a big way, digging channels everywhere trying to get the water to run off. I was a regular hydro-engineer in the spring.

We've been getting a good share of rain down here in Minnesota this summer. Along with some really miserable muggy heat. :P The ferns in my yard love it, though. They're almost up to my shoulders these days. I feel like I'm living in a greenhouse.

And my driveway here is collapsing into mud, too -- makes me all nostalgic for my Willow days. :D

sw

[Blue_In_AK]

33. I really like it up around Willow.

Hatcher Pass is one of our favorite day trips, especially on the Willow side.

[Canuckistanian]

24. Are you enjoying your "taste of the tropics"?

OK, I guess not.

[Arctic Dave]

25. We are the new rain forest.

I need to get a pet monkey.

[nadinbrzezinski]

30. WORST than three years ago?

I am impressed, we were there during a cruise... and that was the comment from folks there... how miserable it already was.

[Blue_In_AK]

34. Back in the '90s and early 2000s,

we had several years where our summers were amazing, warm and sunny, lasting well into September, but the past few years have been more like it was in the '70s when I first came up here. We really never know quite what to expect from year to year. We really feel cheated with these kinds of summers, though, after going through our long, long winters.

[nadinbrzezinski]

35. I understand

you do get long winters... and sucky too.

[defendandprotect]

36. We've had double the number of 90 degree days here in NJ ....

Look at the flooding in Pakistan -- !!

New huge chunk just dropped off in Greenland -- think it was Greenland --

Fires in Russia --


And, increasing earthquake activity is also part of Global Warming --

and who do we have to thank for all of this?

Capitalism's exploitation of nature -- natural resources -- animal life --

and even other human beings --



Patriarchy -- the bird with one wing

Organized Patriarchal religion -- its underpinning

Capitalism - invented by the Vatican when Feudalism was no longer sufficient to

run their Papal States --

The Unholy Trinity!