Paris, 33°C on Monday

Earl Evleth writes:

Pauvre chou, it will be cooler today.

It wasn't. The temperature in the Métro was 34.6° C (94.3° F).

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On 21/06/05 20:27, in article ,
"Hatunen" wrote:



We expect 42C this afternoon. When you step out the door from
your airconditioned house or office you get what we call the
"blow dryer effect".



That Tucson weather, Paris is in God's country, or the Germans think so.

Today it cooled off somewhat, Maxi was off a bit. We were down to around
29°C, low 80°F. It was evident by the fact it was not stressful to
walk in the streets. I ventured up to Alesia to a fish market and got
1.2 kilos of langoustine, which were cooked and served cold at dinner,
with a Poilly Fumé, and home made mayonnaise (the yellow kind). I walked
most back to our quartier in the 6th, and as long as one stayed on the shady
side of the street, no problem.

Anyway, Paris is projected for lower temperatures by this weekend.

One TV news broadcast has some climate experts discussing probable evolution
this summer. First we have a drought on in some regions, but this is
periodic each year now since global warming had started to turn on in
France.

The current projection is for about a half-a degree C warmer weather above
average, a bit like last year and not like 2003. This prediction does not
predict any heat waves, just the average.

I have not seen our dachshund panting yet so it hasn't been really hot.
Maxi is certainly panting.

Earl
for the summer

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 06:23:10 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote:

Simone writes:

When you have a lot of fog during the summer and very few balmy
nights... you often are jealous of the occasional really hot day (at
least I am).

I never get tired of cool weather.

Still... the weather in SF is lovely right now.

Fog usually means 100% humidity, which I hardly consider lovely no
matter what the temperature.

Usually, the fog recedes by mid-morning as the on-shore breezes
become off-shor breezes, resulting in a bright sunny day until
the breezes again reverse in the evening.

Of course, somtimes the morning fog meets the evening fog. But a
20 km drive south or east across the Bay Bridge will do away with
fog entirely. In fact, 50 km east will put you in bright sunlight
at temps of over 40C while 30 km south will put you in bright
sunlight at about 20C (I used to work in Palo Alto).

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* Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow *
* My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 09:58:08 +0200, Earl Evleth
wrote:

On 20/06/05 20:45, in article ,
"Mxsmanic" wrote:

a.spencer3 writes:

Why y'all talking about Paris? We had a shade temp of 92F in Surrey, UK on
Sunday.

Paris had that today.

It's not the heat or the pollution that's the problem, but the bloody
humidity with it. Last night was impossible!

Both high temperature and high humidity are extremely uncomfortable. A
combination of the two is deadly.

Pauvre chou, it will be cooler today.

We expect 42C this afternoon. When you step out the door from
your airconditioned house or office you get what we call the
"blow dryer effect".

************* DAVE HATUNEN ) *************
* Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow *
* My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *

Earl Evleth wrote:

[]
Today it cooled off somewhat, Maxi was off a bit. We were down to around
29°C, low 80°F. It was evident by the fact it was not stressful to
walk in the streets. I ventured up to Alesia to a fish market and got
1.2 kilos of langoustine, which were cooked and served cold at dinner,
with a Poilly Fumé, and home made mayonnaise (the yellow kind). I walked
most back to our quartier in the 6th, and as long as one stayed on the shady
side of the street, no problem.

You know it's getting hot when you think about what side of the street
you should walk on! I remember a meandering walk through Seville, where
we constantly shifted from one side of the street to another.

Frankly, it happened at the end of last week, where I spent a couple of
days in Aldeburgh, Suffolk coast- absolutely sweltering temperatures for
that part of the world.

--
David Horne- www.davidhorne.net
usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk

Hatunen writes:

Of course, somtimes the morning fog meets the evening fog. But a
20 km drive south or east across the Bay Bridge will do away with
fog entirely. In fact, 50 km east will put you in bright sunlight
at temps of over 40C while 30 km south will put you in bright
sunlight at about 20C (I used to work in Palo Alto).

I prefer the latter, although 15° C would be better still.

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Earl Evleth writes:

Today it cooled off somewhat, Maxi was off a bit.

No, I actually measured the temperatures in the Métro and on the street.
Nobody lives in a weather shelter in the Montsouris park, and the
official temperatures taken from places like that always misrepresent
the temperature as being much cooler than it actually is.

Today we had hotter weather than San Diego. Normally Paris weather
should be similar to that of San Francisco, but with much lower
humidity.

Anyway, Paris is projected for lower temperatures by this weekend.

"Lower" still meaning fifteen degrees Celsius above normal.

The current projection is for about a half-a degree C warmer weather above
average, a bit like last year and not like 2003. This prediction does not
predict any heat waves, just the average.

And yet we have a succession of heat waves.

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On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 23:43:29 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote:

Hatunen writes:

Of course, somtimes the morning fog meets the evening fog. But a
20 km drive south or east across the Bay Bridge will do away with
fog entirely. In fact, 50 km east will put you in bright sunlight
at temps of over 40C while 30 km south will put you in bright
sunlight at about 20C (I used to work in Palo Alto).

I prefer the latter, although 15° C would be better still.

20C is summer. 15C is winter.

************* DAVE HATUNEN ) *************
* Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow *
* My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *

When you have a lot of fog during the summer and very few balmy
nights... you often are jealous of the occasional really hot day (at
least I am).

I never get tired of cool weather.

Still... the weather in SF is lovely right now.

Fog usually means 100% humidity, which I hardly consider lovely no
matter what the temperature.

Fog and cooler temperatures (say, 60-64F/15-18C) can be quite nice,
especially when you're coming from something a whole lot warmer. Humidity
really isn't much of an issue at such temperatures. It exists, but it's
comfortable.

The SF Peninsula (upon which I happen to live) has some of the nicest
weather anywhere. It's rarely very hot, and when it is, it's almost never
hot for more than 3 days. Typically it's 3 hot days and then the fog moves
back in. Very predictable, very nice.

And yes, it *is* beautiful when the fog rolls over the coastal hills. We're
(I live in Redwood City, about 25 miles south of San Francisco) separated
from the coast by about 25 miles/40k, and hills about 2000ft/700m high. I
can look out my kitchen window and see places that vary in temperature
between 16 & 33C. If you want it cooler, or warmer, it's a very short drive
or bicycle ride.

If only it weren't so darned expensive to live here!

--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReactionBicycles.com

In article ,
Earl Evleth wrote:

The only change in this last 200 years is that global warming is
making Northern California a happy hunting ground for the great
white shark.

Well this year has been pretty cold. Temperatures have been below
normal and last week, it rained.

Last year was warm though, following a mild winter.