Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Days above 90 degrees F.

Today the temperatures were above 90 degrees F., remarkably, for the first time since Spring.  Last year, we had several days that reached into the 90s in April!


With the humidity level, it felt much hotter than this...
Temps reached a low of about 65 over night here last night.

heat tomorrow is expected to be about the same, but Friday is predicted to have rain storms, and cooler temperatures.
Being housebound from heat in June is more common now in Pennsylvania.  It does not make me very happy.  Last summer had the most > 90 F. days on record.
To cool two rooms with electric air conditioners (which consists of having 2 room air conditioners  at 5000 btu's each, running 24 hours most days for about 9 weeks) in order to escape the heat in the summer months is almost as expensive to deal with as heating the entire apartment (with natural gas / hot water) in the winter months... 
I just read where days over 90 degrees are expected to double in the next 80 years throughout the US, with the heat making most of the southern states uninhabitable.
I finished this gouache painting last evening and listed it on etsy :)

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