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welcome, your post is readeble hear on hot hot Vancouver Island. The grand kids are on the deck playing with buckets of water and it is hot enough that we do not mind getting wet at all when they are missing the water buckets.

Hope to hear more about you now that you made your landing

Els

Els,

How hot is it there? Rudy and I leave next Sunday for our trip to Tacoma, and I've been meaning to have a look at the National Weather Service web site.

Here in San Angelo, TX, it is 95 degrees with 22% humidity.

BonnieBlue

Today it isa high of 92F with 33% humidity and a low of 64F tonight. It has been hot for us this weekend. The prediction for next Saturday is 76F with a low of 56F. We don't have a Sunday prediction yet. There may be a few clouds off and on this week which might mean a bit higher humidity but in the summer that isn't usually an issue. It is summer here - and I live very close to Tacoma. Usually this is the best place in the country to be in August. Enjoy. Judy

On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 17:23:17 -0500, "BonnieBlue" spewed forth :

The official high today in Austin was 98f with 21% humidity; the NOAA heat index calculator claims the apparent temp (heat index) was only

My personal weather station (temp, hygrogrometer, barometer, anemometer) claims today's high for me, about 10 miles from the "official" reporting station, was 102f with 37% humidity and a calculated heat index of 111f. This week is large brush pickup for my neighborhood so DH and I were out there bushwhacking in the worst of it. I hate letting the stuff grow, but I also hate doing any more yardwork than necessary. So when large brush collection happens we have to work like dogs for a day or two to whack back the photinias, cherry laurels and other crap that invades over the fences.

My back yard now looks scalped - and it is. The weather now isn't conducive to new growth including any potential ground cover.

And of course I'm covered in chigger bites, scratches, bruises and skeeta bumps. And I'm sunburnt and my brain feels quite fried.

Reply to the list as I do not publish an email address to USENET. This practice has cut my spam by more than 95%. Of course, I did have to abandon a perfectly good email account...

It was so hot that I spent the whole day sitting on the porch drinking beer, and when my wife got home from her air conditioned office, she agreed, that considering the heat, I had done a good day's work.