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[Daisy]

Spectacular thunder, lightning and rain? Well, yes, it's summer. But hail??

[Daisy]

Hey people in NYC and NJ--how 'bout that sunset tonight? Went for a long, long walk along the Hudson and kept expecting to see cherubs and doves emerging from that Tiepolo sky.

[Pingarina]

Man, that was a good one! I caught it just in time, coming out of a meeting in Ft. Greene, where the sky is "bigger" than in my neighborhood. The clouds were sort of a neon-salmon color, giving everything a nice pink glow.

[SRD]

If the legend of St Swithin is true, I can live with it this year, we had a little rain in the night but the day was pleasant, verging on lovely.

[lovelynugget]

Whew! It's hot out there. A quick run out to the local Greenmarket and the bakery. The humidity is like being hit in the face with a sweaty tube sock. Hard to breathe, and it's still only in the 80s.

Now back inside with air conditioning I realize I'm kinda stinky. I may have to rearrange my day.

[Daisy]

I think today may be one of those days where I take the bus home. I can't bear the thought of standing on a subway platform.

[Wilfrid1]

Ah, fabulous time at the Second Avenue F stop this morning, on the mezzanine which is as hot as hell. The metrocard vending machines not able to process cards. Take a while to find out, of course, then another while to find enough non-mangled dollar bills to pay cash instead.

Everyone engaged in this project soaked to the skin and very unhappy.

[racheld]

The sky here at this time of year is unfailingly sapphire at twilight and on into the evening---a deep, deep blue-black which we noticed for the first time several years ago, coming out of the airport. I thought it must be the contrast to all the bright peripheral lights, but it retained that mysterious hue all the way home, as I craned my head out the window to look up into the night.


And it's still there, as day wanes, every clear day---it does not fade; it just sort of nights-out into the total black of a late sky. And with all this new Daylight time thing---that doesn't happen until midnight on occasion. We sit outside, and I feel as if I'm back in Scotland, with daylight bracketing night in ever-increasing gulps, 'til sleep-time is a small moment between day's insistence.

[Daisy]

Despite the crippling humidity I walked home (29 blocks down, 6 across) for the second night in a row. I think my impulse arose from a wish to be outside after long workdays mixed with equal desire to avoid the alternatives of searing subway platform or freezing cold bus. After my second long stroll down Fifth, choked to impassibility with Europeans staggering under the weight of their shopping bags, I have decided that the most essential weapon necessary for such a journey is a pair of sharp elbows.

[Wilfrid1]

Thunder and lightning right overhead for a brief time last night. I turned out the lights and cranked up "Tupelo" by the Bad Seeds.

[Daisy]

There was hail! in Chelsea this weekend. Only for a few minutes, but the second time this summer.

When the train stopped at 34th Street this AM the aroma wafting into the car from the platform was indescribable.

[rancho_gordo]

After a bumpy start of heatwaves and ice ages, we're enjoying a sublime summer. Foggy, dense, cold mornings that break by 10 or 11am and then heat soaring up to the low 90s and then cool evenings. It's how I remember the weather before it got all bonky. I hope I didn't jinx things.

[peppyre]

We are finally having some desperately needed rain here. It's been over a month since we've had any and things are getting a bit too dry. Of course, my allergies have decided that this is the perfect weather to act up. I'm miserable today....but hey...the plants are going to be happy.

[memesuze]

As I've reported in other threads, Austin is having a brutal summer: 36 days so far of 100 degrees or higher days, the next 7 are predicted to be that high, which will put this summer in third place with 43 days that high and most of August to go - I hope we don't make it to second-place. That's in the mid-60s number of days range. First place is currently 69 days.

[Daisy]

In a little over an hour I'm heading off for a flight to Las Vegas, where today's forecast is 110F. But it's a dry heat, right?