Thery have been saying the word "Canicule" for about a week now...and while warm, then warmer, then hot...the days simply didn't apply the record breaking temperatures of the 2003 EVENT they called "a canicule" then. Well yesterday it certainly TRIED to be one with whatever temperature it was outside, 34 or 35 C, was equalled by the bloody humidity which stopped one in their tracks. We worked on the room in the morning, Kelly painting the windows their 2nd coat of Blinding White oil paint and I wallpappered away dripping in sweat til I couldn't either drip anymore or accomplish anything.
Then all work stopped. Today's work hardly begun when it ended, not just HOT, it is now Very Hot...and the sun is fiercely beaming down on us with narry a cloud in sight. Teperature? Currentl at 2:28pm...35C...or for you F folks...95 degrees with matching humidity. Peak summer afternoon temps don't generally level off until the sun angle drops to below 50 degrees to the horizon and that is about 5:15 pm in the afternoon. Today will be a Canicule day by that time. Then tonight, guess what? The fun of night lit skies and torrential downpours with winds to match as Thunderheads build about sundown and here we go again! Batten the hatches...I went up to the attic today and put down a 15' X 10' blue poly tarp to slow the leakage of the roof thru the attic. Moved furniture to more distinct piles and repositioned some pails and buckets and a small horse trough into places I THINK they will do the most good in. Nonetheless tonight promisses to be a doozy. All that heat means towering clouds with frozen tops, hail, grail and rain galore! Whoopee! So much for the drought. Tomorrow is supposed to be a rainy day with much lower temperatures, so be it. And good luck!
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Sounds like a normal summer day here! Though we at least have the benefit of central air.
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