It rained 0.08" in Palm Springs yesterday, and it came down fast and hard, plus the thunder was quite loud.
That doesn't sound like much rain, but it's the most we've had since January.
(The summers here are usually very dry.)
Sorry to hear that my friend. Meanwhile in this country they can’t get people to take the vaccine. I wasn’t first in like, just to make sure people weren’t dropping dead from it, but I got the Moderna 2-shot one many months ago
Crazy weather here !
Last week we had 30-35 degrees in Porto. Since Saturday it dropped almost 10ºC, and this mourning when I went out, it was raining .
I admit, I feel confuse with “July-like-if-it-was-October-or-February-weather” 
Hopefully it will get better again during this week. Which means…some frustration for being at work and not enjoying the weather itself 
I have a friend up in Seattle who went out and bought his first A/C during the heat wave. Rolled it into the middle of his living room and turned it on. Couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t getting any cooler. I asked him if he’d stuck the hose out the window to remove the hot air and he was like “doesn’t it just make the air colder?” Maybe thermodynamics should be a required class in high school (:
Here it’s insanely hot - mini heat wave, well, that is if you’re not really used to it! currently 25 deg c and it’s been about 15-17 for a while with the odd few hot days in-between, just last week places were getting flooded here.
We need a water pipe line from east to west. We have been in a monsoon.
Yeah too bad it’s not possible to move some giant chunks of ice from, say, Greenland to places that are in drought. I guess you’d have to compare the energy required against desalination
Still in the 90s during the day. Cooler than normal for here.
Skeeters are forming up like B-17 squadrons after the rains a few weeks ago.
Get sucked dry if I’m not careful.
On another note, I got the R18 garage doors installed yesterday. Really quiet.
The inside skin is near inside temp. The old single ply metal doors could be 20 or more degrees hotter than the outside temp during the late afternoon.
I’ve got a temp data logger running. Interested to see what a difference they make.
All the Best,
Jeff
I love our new R18 door. It is made with an exterior steel skin and an interior steel skin that do not touch one another anywhere. Very nice. I don’t have a datalogger but I can be on the inside with the sun beating directly on the exterior and I don’t feel any heat radiating to me like I used with the now recycled single skin doors.
Outside it has only reached 76 F but inside it is still 68 after cooling to 64 overnite (inide garage). It looks like rain, but here it often looks like rain but nothing happens, though it may pour a mile away.
This new garage door has a higher R-value than the house walls were when it was built in ’85. The walls and attic were improved a lot a few years ago so it was past time for the garage door.
Greetings, my friend. We found out about “ Sawyer Products 20% Picaridin Insect Repellent” last year and it’s the only thing we found that keeps mosquitoes from eating us alive! Good for kids too
Kewl… I was looking, like, all over for kid repellent.
Roasting hot where I am. So hot you have to leave your car run and lock the doors if you go into a store/restaurant, otherwise it’s unbearably hot inside
My dad’s method was to give me work to do as a kid whenever he saw me. I made sure I was out of the hizzle at first light in the summer and not back before dark
It poured rain and hailed briefly. Temperature dropped 25 degrees F in the space of minutes.
Sunny with pleasant blue sky this morning in Singapore. I bet it is going to rain this afternoon/evening, just like yesterday. Temperature now is 30C.
Got my R18 doors installed. Did a quick thread here:
Bottom line - a little over 20F cooler in the garage (at max temp) with the new doors installed.
Way happy with the results.
Back up in the low 100Fs which is typical or a bit cooler than usual for here.
All the Best,
Jeff
We had the air conditioning on for 2 or 3 weeks straight because the dewpoint was too high.
Now we have the swamp cooler on, and it feel so much nicer in the house. 
Low 90s of late ~ 20% RH. Really nice in the evenings in the shade out back.
Last evening there was just a slight breeze - kept the skeeters away.
Grilling some tenderloin, then out on the porch for a glass of vintage port and a cigar after dinner.
Good times.
All the Best,
Jeff
RC, I keep an old window swamp cooler on the porch for emergency BBQ cooling.
Hey, just noticed - this is my 1000th post!
Congrats on 1000 posts, jeff51! 