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haele

(12,646 posts)
Fri Sep 14, 2012, 06:39 PM Sep 2012

Yesterday in San Diego: 84 with 80% humidity - today, 102 with 35%...

But still no f***in breeze! Ocean temp is supposed to be 70 degrees plus - almost unheard of for the Pacific off SoCal. The temperature seems to jump 5 degrees every mile you go east from the ocean. Of course, no one predicted this high pressure system would develop so quickly and be so intense.

We're only 3 miles from the ocean, with no air conditioning. It's supposed to be hotter by a couple degrees tomorrow. If Laz wasn't so disabled, we'd go to the mall and walk the stores or go down to the park and sit under the trees, but he's in a bad shape right now and needs lots of padding for his joints, so park benches and library chairs are pretty much out of the question.

I'm really tempted to take the family down to the nearest Laz-e-Boy or furniture showroom and just sit for an hour or so reading Kindles around 4 or 5 this evening and tomorrow, but that's too unfair to the salespeople. Can't go out to the movies, since you have to buy a ticket to get into the movie theater, and we just don't have the money for four people to watch even one movie at full price, and sitting in a diner or coffeehouse hogging tables isn't fair to the waitstaff or the venue.

Does anyone know if it was the Barnes and Nobel has the comfy padded chairs, or was that the Borders that's now out of business?

At least we don't live further inland anymore - it's 106 in El Cajon, where we used to live.
And thankfully, it's a dry heat.

Damn climate change - and there's another tropical storm south of us that's going to be bringing the moisture back up our way again, which increases humidity.

Haele

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Yesterday in San Diego: 84 with 80% humidity - today, 102 with 35%... (Original Post) haele Sep 2012 OP
I thought my friend in OC was traveling again! KamaAina Sep 2012 #1
I know other places have had it worse - haele Sep 2012 #2
 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
1. I thought my friend in OC was traveling again!
Fri Sep 14, 2012, 06:56 PM
Sep 2012

when she mentioned the 100-degree "furnace" on FB. Sheesh. Low to mid 80s all week up here in San Jose.

haele

(12,646 posts)
2. I know other places have had it worse -
Fri Sep 14, 2012, 10:02 PM
Sep 2012

We just weren't expecting this. It was only supposed to get up to 92...
We've had such a mild summer, we really weren't prepared.

Haele

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