What's the temperature where you are???

[Jenbirdee]

5:30 am

 

[TXchickmum]

37 at 5:13 AM. High of 71 for today’s forecast.

 

[kikiruru]

Friday 557 am raining 55

 

[Nym]

Friday 10.16p.m. calm and clear. 25C, Hg 61%

 

[kikiruru]

3:00 PM
64F
78% humidity
rain

We've had a steady, drizzly rain for about an hour, plus a little thunder and lightning! That's very unusual for February. We even had a power outage for about 20 minutes, apparently caused by a nearby lightning strike.

Power outages are rare here. I actually enjoy them because they're never long enough to cause any trouble and the electricity off means blessed silence.

Living in the desert, our house is perpetually LOUD. We're either heating or cooling (except for maybe two days in November which is our spring) so there's always a heater or A/C or evaporative cooler running and fans on everywhere to circulate the air.

In addition, each room has a HEPA air cleaner running on high 24/7 in a Sisyphean battle against the hated desert dust. We have epic levels of dust. You can dust and vacuum several times a day and never get ahead of it. It's everywhere. On the furniture, on the cabinets and walls, in our eyes and throats. Blech.

As a result we live in a constant cacophony of running machinery. Tvs, computers, and radios have to be turned way up to hear them above the noise. It's impossible to have a normal conversation. I feel like I'm always yelling. It's enough to drive you batty.

When the power goes out, it all turns off and things are blissfully quiet. We can speak normally again. Ahhhh... it's such a relief.

Until the power comes back on.

Desert dust reminds me of summer's back in the 60’s and 70’s and 80’s camping at a campground steps away from the beautiful white sandy beaches of the Gulf of Mexico in orange beach Alabama

We had a canvas pop up camper without air conditioning and you sat in sand and slept in sand and even ate with sand but we loved it

Few times over the years a sand storm would hit and we could not zip up all the walls fast enough and then we actually had to sweep to get rid of the sand
(And flying sand stings when it hits you)

 

[Grannys Backyard Chicks]

Overcast with a good breeze. 58° now with a high of 78°.

 

[Brooks_]

64 F. Cloudy. Might get to 80 before the rain in the forecast.

87 (1961) 27 (1984)

 

[sourland]

36F with a high of 49 predicted

 

[007Sean]

@TXchickmum , @007Sean are the fires anywhere near either of you?

No, that's about 600 miles from me. Pretty bad situation up there, 2nd largest wildfire in Texas history, could turn into being the largest.
It's already larger than the state of Rhode Island!

ETA - it is now the largest wildfire in Texas history.
https://www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/texas-wildfire-drone-video-smokehouse-creek-fire

 

[007Sean]

Friday: : 10:25am, 50°F, humidity 98%, wind N @ 2mph, foggy, overcast.