Weather ... again

[RobertArthur]

Weather, elsewhere, California: within ten years time no more beach boys, only sea boys (and girls)?

No more mild Mediterranean-type climate?

Where are the beaches (2036)?

But even in the Land of Sunshine, they were not immune to more traditional Christmas greetings, as this airmail letter from Santa Cruz addressed to my mother seems to show. December 1958...

[Hotrodder]

A few comments about the LA Times article.
1) "The other problem here, too, is that the very highest heat-index values I’m seeing are in Central and South Central L.A. where a number of people don’t have air conditioning at home,...."
Oh dear, how they must have suffered. I spent my first 23 years in a southern suburb of L.A. and I never entered a private home that had aircon. Only supermarkets, etc. and my grandfather's Thunderbird had it.

2) "L.A. County health officials urged people to be on the lookout for symptoms of heat stroke or heat exhaustion, such as dizziness, nausea, rapid heartbeat and confusion."
When I was there SMOG was the cause of that lot.

3) "Through Thursday, the weather service warned of significant beach erosion, coastal flooding of beaches and parking lots,"
I wonder how all those newfangled electric cars will get on sitting in saltwater.

[Char]

Cold, wet and miserable

[exile]

Yes, autumn has arrived. It's not wet here but decidedly cool. We still need a lot of rain though. I passed a neighbouring village's reservoir, which is in a steeply sided valley. Their water reserve looked to be little more than a puddle some 20m down from the top of the dam, and nothing visible was running in despite recent rain.

[Blaze]

It's cool here and we've had a little rain. However, we're still in a state of crise

[MAD87]

So bluddy cold here we put the heating on yesterday.

[Veem]

It was such a major surprise when we drove to Angouleme to meet a train yesterday, to see the countryside around us and on our way had returned to beautiful emerald green. Even the trees appear to have reverted to summer green rather than autumn reds and golds.

[RobertArthur]

Central Italy, Umbria: a few raindrops in the early afternoon, not very cloudy, a temperature of 22°C and a wind that’s picking up a bit. It’s set to get a bit cooler this evening.

[exile]

The vagaries of the weather this year are making themselves clear in our garden.

We have a large Yucca planted about 20 years ago and each year it has produced flower spikes in early June. It did again this year with 4 spikes, but for the first time it is now producing a further 3 spikes.

[Hotrodder]

Coming back from a hospital visit this afternoon, I was wishing the aircon on the horrible new Peugeot was working. Sadly it doesn't, neither does the convertible top. Grrrrrrrrrrr. Probably the hottest Brittany summer in years and me with no motorcycle and two cars with aircon that doesn't work.