I thought I would beat the heat with an early morning ride of Flying Dog above Jeremy Ranch this morning. The trailheads there are usually some of the cooler spots around, but cloud cover, humidity, and a bit of a breeze prevented much overnight cooling. The site at the bottom of Woodward Park City, for example, dropped below 60˚F each of the previous four nights, but last night only got down to 65˚F. Ick.
My car thermometer measured 73˚F at the trailhead at 7:45, which was probably close and wasn't much lower than the overnight minimum at the Salt Lake City airport (77˚F).
Fortunately, the cloud cover masked the sun on the ride, so perhaps it was a reasonable tradeoff.
Regardless, I'm so sick of this heat. Based on the most recent 30-year climate "normals" (whatever that means anymore, the hottest days of the year at the Salt Lake City airport are from July 23-27 (Average high and low 96 and 70, respectively). Call this climatological hump week, although climate is what you expect and weather is what you get.
Jim, while I would like to sympathize with you and your anguish over the heat in SLC....I would point out that those of us who live in the low country of south carolina routinely look at our weather center in the AM and see that it's already 81 but feels like 96...then in the PM it is actually 96 and feels like 112.
ReplyDeleteI will trade you straight away...just say the word.
Ha ha. Not interested.
DeleteSounds like someone needs to move to the Oregon coast. Or maybe Alaska.
ReplyDeleteI moved from SC to SLC about 10 years ago--you've got a point there!
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