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liralenWhew. The weather broke. From 80 and gusting to 28 and raining.
Yes.
Raining. It's the Seattle-mist type slow drizzle, which is snow up at the fire area. It's making containment completely doable, which is very good. Just a loss of 7 buildings. Pretty much all the evacuees are back home.
Last night, it was very eerie seeing the line of fire on the mountain. It almost looked like a crack in the side of a volcano, oozing lava or something... all the glow and the curtaining of smoke.
The J's and I went to Longmont for a meeting, and then hit Cold Stone on the way back, just minutes before they closed. Jet had been great at the meeting and wanted ice cream, so there we were, and he really enjoyed his peppermint ice cream with sprinkles.
Yes.
Raining. It's the Seattle-mist type slow drizzle, which is snow up at the fire area. It's making containment completely doable, which is very good. Just a loss of 7 buildings. Pretty much all the evacuees are back home.
Last night, it was very eerie seeing the line of fire on the mountain. It almost looked like a crack in the side of a volcano, oozing lava or something... all the glow and the curtaining of smoke.
The J's and I went to Longmont for a meeting, and then hit Cold Stone on the way back, just minutes before they closed. Jet had been great at the meeting and wanted ice cream, so there we were, and he really enjoyed his peppermint ice cream with sprinkles.
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Date: 2003-10-30 11:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-30 11:59 am (UTC)I always thought Seattle had lots of variation in the weather, but I totally forgot just how much having the ocean near by mediates things on a more general basis.
Here, the temperature changes are just bizarre. One September, before Labor Day, we had two days that brought a foot of snow bookended by 80 degree days. Yeesh.
I always characterized Seattle weather as all-Spring and all-Fall, with a few weeks of Winter and Summer between. Here it's all Winter or all summer, and spring and fall are just skitzoid bouncing between the two.
It's much harder on my immmune system than I'd like. The abrupt changes really take some adapting to, but the snow is so gorgeous and so many of the winter days here are sunny. It's funny seeing the temperature charts for most days, as the temps go up until the angle of the sun gets far enough down, then it goes down, skids down for the night, has the lowest low of the day just as the sun's coming up and then back the temps go. Solar climate. The earth holds no heat at all compared to the sea. When it's cloudy, like today, it's just plain *cold*.