Weather

One doesn't like to gloat. Well, one doesn't like to gloat too much, but the weather here is almost ridiculous. Some people say it gets dull, effectively having no seasons, but it's not dull yet. The forecast for today is for it to be 75F (that's about 23C, kids and Europeans), and it's been warmer than that the last few days (up to 80). We are going to a Halloween do, only about 10 miles away, and the forecast there is 80F today.

S says that it hardly ever gets hot in England, and when it does get hot, it's humid. It's so unhumid here that it's almost unpleasant. (It's particularly unpleasant if you're a forest and catch fire easily. That's a downside we haven't had yet, but have been told about - when everything gets covered in smoke and ash from fires.) The humidity forecast here is 18% later on, and where we are going, it's -1% (hang on, how can that happen? How can there be less than no humidity? Well, whatever, it's very dry).

We thought about moving to this area and it's a lot hotter there than it is near the coast (where we did move to). This year it set a record for having 20 consecutive days over 100 degrees F (that's about 38c) and set a record of 119F (48C). When we used to go to the South of France as children, my grandfather used to tell us how you could fry an egg on a hot bit of ground (I've got a memory of trying, but I don't recall the result). I've seen a recipe where you cook salmon at lower temperatures than that (no, really, it's here). You wouldn't need to put the saucepan on the cooker, well, you could, but you wouldn't need to turn it on. If you had a bath that was 48C, it would hurt.