more weather fun
Jul. 30th, 2009 11:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jenkThe all-time high temperature of 100 degrees in Seattle was set July 20, 1994. I don't remember the summer of 1994 being all that hot. Mostly I remember being in my air-conditioned office at Microsoft for 9 or 12 hours a day & that my then-basement apartment tended to stay pretty cool.
Now, well, no basement apartment. No ground-floor bedroom. And Seattle officially recorded a high of 103 yesterday.
As the local paper notes,
I do realize that sitting in my AC office all day means I'm not acclimating. I'm having a hard time caring, though.
In other news, the University Bridge, a fairly low drawbridge over one of the canals that lets boats go between Lake Washington and Puget Sound, was expanding so much in the heat that they decided not to open it yesterday.
Now, well, no basement apartment. No ground-floor bedroom. And Seattle officially recorded a high of 103 yesterday.
As the local paper notes,
With prolonged exposure to high temperatures, the body becomes more efficient at it. But when folks accustomed to Western Washington's mild weather are suddenly thrust into the oven, their bodies sputter like poorly tuned engines.
"It can really knock you silly," said University of Washington biologist Ray Huey, who has studied lizards and other denizens of the Kalahari Desert.
I do realize that sitting in my AC office all day means I'm not acclimating. I'm having a hard time caring, though.
In other news, the University Bridge, a fairly low drawbridge over one of the canals that lets boats go between Lake Washington and Puget Sound, was expanding so much in the heat that they decided not to open it yesterday.
