[Magdalen] Heat advisory.

Scott Knitter scottknitter at gmail.com
Sun Sep 25 03:40:10 UTC 2016


I experienced such a heat wave in Edinburgh when we sang a week of services
in St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral. It was like being in San Diego. Glad the
cathedral retained the cooler air.

On Sep 24, 2016 9:32 PM, "Jay Weigel" <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Reminds me of my oldest grandson's mother when she came back from Scotland
> (before she married our Adam) and was relating how they'd had a heat wave
> while she was there..."It was 73 degrees and everybody was complaining
> about how fookin' 'ot it was and I was looking for my sweater!"
>
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 10:09 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > We expected it to be a little less warm when we traveled to Portugal at
> the
> > beginning of this month.  Nah, it hung around 90 a lot of the time.  And
> it
> > sure could have been worse. I read of some place reporting 45 degrees
> > celsius.
> > http://whnt.com/2016/09/07/record-breaking-september-
> > heat-wave-grips-europe/
> > Fortunately, we stayed out of the sun as much as possible, and the breeze
> > dramatically helped.
> > Today here it's just a bit chilly outside.
> > And the Great Barrier Reef is losing content at about three per cent per
> > year, I believe.
> > When I was in Saudi Arabia in '91, we learned to just shrug the heat off.
> > But good grief, stay hydrated! Heat exhaustion is no joke. (Been there,
> > done that.)
> >
> > James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> > *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> > except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 9:22 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Oh My God.  Today was unbearable, at 75F max.  Tomorrow's predicted
> high
> > > is 91F, and Monday's 93F.
> > >
> > > At this rate, my only hope for a bearable winter is for it to feel
> like a
> > > mildy warm fall with occasional heatwaves.
> > >
> > > It's currently 73F, windows open all 'round, and nothing's moving.
> > >
> > > As Al Bundy used to say, "Somebody shoot me!"
> > >
> >
>


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