Thursday, July 15, 2010
SUMMER IS HERE
Deep summer.
We will have our first 24 hours of air today.
Booker and I got out to pee, him not me, at 330AM and it was 87.
OK as far as it goes but not low enough to open the house.
We are into the hundred teens during the days. Dry. But hot.
This is about the normal summer pattern. Up to now it has been relatively cool but now, not.
It is OK. This is our February from back east. We stay indoors more and choose our outside time to be mostly in the shade and as early as possible.
Booker rebelled on the post dinner walk. I urged him on but we did cut it off earlier than normal which is earlier than the morning walk.
Soon, the sun will have set by the time we get out and that will make a big difference as our primary heat during the day is from ultra violet rays. There is no moisture in the air to hold the energy so, in shade, or after sundown there is a considerable drop in the heat we experience.
The UV rays mutate to IR rays when they hit the ground.
What keeps it at 87 is that the ground absorbs the heat and will not let it go readily.
As the summer proceeds, we have more ground heat and it builds up so that by the middle of July we are getting heat down and up. Up at night.
It is all a matter of physics.
The oven feel is OK, even sauna like.
It is when we get the infrequent moisture, the so-called monsoonal effects, that it gets bad. Hot humid air. That is the equivalent of a back east blizzard. We are really hunkered down.
