NWS Pictures Hot

When I want to know a weather forecast, I get it online from the National Weather Service (for "Baltimore/Washington", search for Bowie, MD). I usually don't want a lot of detail in my forecast and I don't need to hear it or see it every ten minutes, so this suits me.

Today the NWS says "Hot". That's it. It's accompanied by this icon, which I don't remember seeing before, but which really says "hot" to me. They also say "Hi 100 °F", and they don't much like to go with three-figure temperatures. But to all our suffering friends, this heat-wave is no surprise by now.

I'm interested to see that we are under a "heat advisory" (because it'll be about 100 °F and humid), whereas some to the northeast of us are issued an "excessive heat warning". That latter phrase, of course, means that it's going to be very hot, but also carries the meaning that the expected temperatures exceed normal highs by 20 to 30 degrees Fahrenheit.

We were out yesterday for a holiday day-trip (Westminster, MD; Hanover and York, PA; a common itinerary for us on a day off). It was really hot yesterday, too. I flashed back to my youth–a time when air conditioning was not ubiquitous–and thought perhaps we should go to a movie theater where it was promised to be "Kool" inside. We didn't; we turned up the air conditioning in the car.

Posted on July 6, 2010 at 11.58 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Personal Notebook

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  1. Written by BearToast Joe
    on Wednesday, 7 July 2010 at 16.14
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    I was all excited. I thought you posted NSFW Pictures Hot. Too bad my reading skills are declining (but other things aren't).

    It was hot down here, too. about 88! Ah, mountains.

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