Category: Weather

Hot as heck

Weather

2021-06-302021-08-12 wt8p

During the last week of June, there was a crazy forecast. Sometimes the app, using Dark Sky, has an instability problem with far-future dates, but this wasn’t changing: For context, the normal high this time of year is 79. Low temperatures are typically 50s to low 60s, thus allowing us to use “Seattle Air Conditioning”, a box fan in the […]

12F this morning

Weather

2008-12-20 wt8p 6 comments

Okay, I’m officially tired of winter.

Finally home

2007-01-12 wt8p 2 comments

Since there were a couple of requests, and some disbelief (*cough*, Jennifer) here is the scarf-in-progress, also known as “Scarf ]I[” or “When I finish this, there will be warm weather” scarf. My hand is strategically placed over some design elements: knitting my name into the pattern. If my name was a series of random glyphs, I could say it […]

Having an ICE ride home

2007-01-04 wt8p 1 comment

I was at work until 9:30 this evening building demos for the trade show next week. This is the latest I’ve biked home since the summer, and it wasn’t too bad: very light traffic, wet roads, 34°F and clear sky illuminated by a sliver-short-of-full moon. Near home, it got interesting. The temperature had dipped below freezing. At the top of […]

Polar Bear Plunge Seattle

2007-01-01 wt8p 3 comments

I did the Polar Bear Plunge (aka “Polar Bear Swim”) again this year. Since I had better planning going into it, I thought I’d try going to the big shindig at Matthews Beach sponsored by the Seattle Parks Department. Writes The Stranger: “(Gloating) Last year, 800 foolish hippies kicked off the New Year with this benighted pagan ritual: They jumped […]

Like snow, but with trees

Weather

2006-12-15 wt8p 3 comments

Last night’s ride home was a doozy because of the torrential downpour… easily the wettest I’ve been since RSVP 2004. The wind started kicking up around 5:30, knocking out power to the street lights. A tree had fallen across the road a mere 1/4 mile past the entrance to my subdivision. When I woke up, the yard is covered with […]

Snow job

Weather

2006-12-03 wt8p 2 comments

Some photos from last week’s pasting. On the way to work Wednesday, my car’s windshield cracked from the severe temperature difference. I also discovered the CD player won’t spin the disc when the interior of the car is below freezing. By Saturday, most of it had melted off from the slightly warmer rain.