Johnny Rivers – Summer Rain.
Seems appropriate for this rainy summer day.
Seasons
I have off from the work the last week of July
I have off from the work the last week of July … 🏊♀️ ⛺ 🛶 🚶♀️
I am thinking I will probably head out to the Finger Lakes National Forest and do the normal circuit of state parks and other places I like to visit out in the Finger Lakes, a mixture of swimming, cooling off in gorges, sightseeing, kayaking, fishing, hiking and camping on long summer nights. I might end up spending a few nights in Pennsylvania, but I’m not set on it, as I kind of like the simplicity of just setting up a good campsite and staying there all week.
I am glad the heat is breaking
I am glad the heat is breaking …
It’s been a tough few days with the heat and no air conditioning. Things are back to normal in the sense that the library is mostly open normal hours but I’m still home more than in the past due to remote work. I need to mop up the floor and scrub up the mold spots that are popping up in my apartment from the constant wetness from the humidity. I was hoping this would be less of a problem when the landlord fixed the plumbing issues but no such luck.
But the way I look at it is I like my $50 a month electric bills and I figure I’m not only saving money I’m conserving resources. Being used to the heat is a good thing as the planet is only getting warmer as are summers locally and I don’t want to be forever imprisoned by the feeling of artificial cold.
Pacific Northwest bakes under once-in-a-millennium heat dome – CBS News
The heat wave baking the U.S. Pacific Northwest and British Columbia, Canada, is of an intensity never recorded by modern humans. By one measure it is more rare than a once in a 1,000 year event — which means that if you could live in this particular spot for 1,000 years, you'd likely only experience a heat dome like this once, if ever.
This article shows that the reporters at CBS News don't understand how probability works.
A millennium heat wave, has only a 63.2% chance of happening in 1,000 years. It also has a 1 in 1,000 chance of happening any specific year, or 0.1% probability in any specific year. That doesn't mean it's impossible to happen any one year, or that two years consecutively of millennium heat waves doesn't mean the probability is wrong.
People often think when you flip a coin that each time you should get a head then a tail then a head, but if that rarely that happens. 50% probability only happens after many coin flips, possibly hundreds. The best way to show somebody isn't faking a coin toss is to look for long runs of heads or tails, because that's most common to happen with probability.
July Daily Average High Temperature
Still the Adirondacks remain the place to beat the heat in the summer.
Taken on Thursday June 17, 2021 at Summer.What is the heat index?
"It's not the heat, it's the humidity". That's a partly valid phrase you may have heard in the summer, but it's actually both. The heat index, also known as the apparent temperature, is what the temperature feels like to the human body when relative humidity is combined with the air temperature. This has important considerations for the human body's comfort. When the body gets too hot, it begins to perspire or sweat to cool itself off. If the perspiration is not able to evaporate, the body cannot regulate its temperature. Evaporation is a cooling process. When perspiration is evaporated off the body, it effectively reduces the body's temperature. When the atmospheric moisture content (i.e. relative humidity) is high, the rate of evaporation from the body decreases. In other words, the human body feels warmer in humid conditions. The opposite is true when the relative humidity decreases because the rate of perspiration increases. The body actually feels cooler in arid conditions. There is direct relationship between the air temperature and relative humidity and the heat index, meaning as the air temperature and relative humidity increase (decrease), the heat index increases (decreases).
Sunset Times On June 21
The latest sunset in New York State today will be in Porter in Niagara County, which overlooks Lake Erie and is across the Niagara River from Canada at 8:59 PM. Might be a great night to watch the sunset from Fort Niagara State Park, which on the first day of summer has the latest sunset in all of New York. In contrast, it will be dark in the Montauk and the Hamptons by 8:24 PM today -- 35 minutes earlier. Saturday will have the latest sunsets of the year across New York State -- in most parts of the state 20-30 seconds later then today's sunset.