Let's Move to Summer 2020!

[ski3pin]

Anyone else notice the daylight is now getting shorter each day?

On our evening walk yesterday we encountered 6 juvenile ravens on the ground behaving like middle school children. A short time later an adult bald eagle flew over. It made for a nice summer evening.

 

[MarkBC]

Anyone else notice the daylight is now getting shorter each day?...

Yup... might be 'bout time to start oiling my snow shovel and tuning up my roof rake.

 

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

Yup... might be 'bout time to start oiling my snow shovel and tuning up my roof rake.

Oh Mark summer is only 6 days old.No not winter yet.
Actually last Sunday I could feel the earth shift back the other way.
Frank

 

[MarkBC]

...summer is only 6 days old...

Well now... some folks might say we're nigh on to a month into summer -- 27 days already.

 

[Foy]

As we look to the west down the beach towards the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel from our little patch of liveoak heaven down at the end of a dead-end street in Virginia Beach, the setting sun has already retreated back to the south by 2 sets of CBBT causeway pilings. By around August 5, our "sunsets behind the Bridge-Tunnel" will be over for 2020. Wedged into the middle of our CBBT sunsets are sunrises from the horizon over the Atlantic beyond Cape Henry which is at our 2:00 o'clock. We get "from the water, to the water" sunrises and sunsets from around May 25 until July 20 or so. At the solstice, the sun rises well before 6:00 at around 5:40 and sunset is at around 8:40. Makes it a bit of a challenge for this particular +60 year-old to catch both of them in the same day!

Foy

 

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

Well now... some folks might say we're nigh on to a month into summer -- 27 days already.

Thanks Mark,that's true but the "sun light" change is only 7 days old.
Happy Summer.
Frank

 

[MarkBC]

I just arrived in the Mojave to experience a few days of REAL summer.
Looks like I'll get that here this weekend and Monday.




But it's a DRY heat...

 

[pvstoy]

I just arrived in the Mojave to experience a few days of REAL summer.
Looks like I'll get that here this weekend and Monday.

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But it's a DRY heat...

Boy that brings back childhood memory's living at 29 Palms..........

 

[MarkBC]

I was here 3 years ago, (as now visiting a friend temporarily located on the USMC base) and it was even a little hotter. I went for bike rides before dawn when it was still comfortable. Maybe I'll do the same this visit. Or drive into the Park where the higher elevation provides slightly longer comfort hours.

 

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

Our desert area has been the high in the nation for the last 5/6 days.
Also the low at Bodie has been the national low for about the same time period.

Have fun in the "summer" heat.Yes and remember it's DRY HEAT.
Frank

 

[MarkBC]

Boy howdy, they know how to do summer round these parts!



I tell you what!

 

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

Boy howdy, they know how to do summer round these parts!

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I tell you what!

Is that more of the "dry" heat?
Frank

 

[MarkBC]

Is that more of the "dry" heat?
Frank

Very dry - 10% RH.
I sat outside for a while - just to experience what I haven't for a few years, and there was no perceptible sweating - even at 114F.

 

[ski3pin]

'bout time for the "fry an egg on the sidewalk" footage?

 

[MarkBC]

PETRICHOR!
"Why you can smell rain"

I did not know this!

 

[ski3pin]

That is fascinating, thanks for posting Mark!

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

PETRICHOR!
"Why you can smell rain"

I did not know this!

I love the smell of the first drops, maybe the only thing that’s comparable for me is rain on sagebrush and juniper.

Thanks for sharing!

 

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

Love the smell of rain as the first drops hit the pavement.
Frank

 

[ski3pin]

...........and in climate news this summer -

Death Valley Expected to Hit Highest Temperature Ever Recorded!

 

[MarkBC]

Quite a bit of thunder and lightning here in Central Oregon this afternoon/evening.
And most of it is dry...at my house, anyway.... and it's been weeks of warm to hot without rain.
Wildfires gonna be sproutin from this.
Not good.