something I am grateful for today

[johncomic]

In our region, once the temperatures get up to summer levels, the warmth is invariably followed by high humidity, which makes for tough slogging. Some of you will nod your heads sagely, others will not really understand what this humidity bugaboo even is. Depends where you've lived. Anyhoo:

The last few days here, the temperatures have gotten into the high 20s (that's low-mid 80s for you non-metrics down there). Which is hot enough to be called summer here, and feels even hotter when it suddenly pops up out of nowhere like this and you haven't had time to adjust your internal thermostat gradually. However:

at the same time, the humidity has been, like, below 30%. For here, that's really dry. Usually our hot weather has humidity of around 80 or 90%. So this feels so different from our regular hot weather -- this is like being in California. (Where I loved being, BTW...)

Bottom line: this last little while, we've been able to enjoy California weather without having to leave home. How could you not be grateful for weather this nice?

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[ginsu.livejournal.com]

Where in California?

The Bay Area -- despite its giant bay and close proximity to the world's largest ocean -- has a rep in Austin for having low humidity. But it is actually more humid than Austin as a general rule.

Right now, for instance, Austin is at 40%; Menlo Park, 63%. But Menlo Park is also 30 degrees cooler, so...

[johncomic.livejournal.com]

We were in Los Angeles, Pasadena and Long Beach.

And yeah, I realize that it can be even drier in places like Texas and Arizona and yer other arid southwestern states. But since I haven't yet been fortunate enough to visit them, I limited my comparison on the basis of my own experiences.

Granted, it's odd how places on the edge of the ocean can be less humid than up here. Odd and unfair, sez I!

[ginsu.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's not really arid here; people in Austin constantly complain about the humidity, which today is 78%. But somehow they also have the idea it's less humid in the Bay Area, when really, it's just cooler.

Denver is another story. Because the Rocky Mountains block the coastal winds from the west, Denver has the lowest humidity of any place I've been. People get nosebleeds and women celebrate their good hair.