Andrew @andrew907@librem.one
Minimalist. Christian. Alaskan. Music curator at ellenbrooke.org. Puri.sm supporter. SI user among the last imperial holdouts. Socialist and copyright abolitionist. Sometimes language modeler.
It is time for Christmas in July. We hear alarming reports that temperatures in England are hovering in the high 30s over the next few days and cracking 40°, but in Anchorage we are looking forward to a delightful week mostly in the low teens with a fluffy ceiling of clouds. 🎄 ☁️ And maybe a hint of drought relief?! It is not so far-fetched to pretend that we're in the Blue Mountains and join them from afar in Yuletide festivities!
Highs in the low to mid 20s, let alone the high 20s, are unacceptable. Even if they might seem like reasonable air temperatures in themselves, the intense sun makes the temperature someone actually perceives at least 10 degrees higher. After over three months of negligible precipitation we are in a serious drought and worsening fire risk. NWS reports 10.6 mm of rain for the whole of April and May, which is admittedly the dry season but on average would receive 28 mm of rain for the same period.
Let's try another one of these maps but repurpose the colors to choose my favorites. Green, blue, white, yellow, red is the order from most to least favorite. Here goes! But there don't seem to be quite enough colors, there is not really a way to differentiate mixed feelings from neutral, and a state or province is a big, sometimes diverse land area to have feelings about!
cool website - how many North American locations have you been to? https://www.gasfoodnolodging.com/visitedstates/us-canada/
The time of year's coming when I can only go out at night and dream of Yuletide. More accurately, go out at civil twilight because there's no night till August. 20 degrees is my upper limit, and we are well above 20 degrees already. It's not even June yet. But I still feel grateful when I see the weather in most other places in the world. How are people staying alive in Phoenix, where highs in the 30s stretch endlessly into the future, let alone Jacobabad, Pakistan with high of 49° today?
Minimalist. Christian. Alaskan. Music curator at ellenbrooke.org. Puri.sm supporter. SI user among the last imperial holdouts. Socialist and copyright abolitionist. Sometimes language modeler.
