Urrrrrr ...

[blamebrampton]

It is 41.5 degrees C, which is over 100 in the old money. If you hear nothing further from me, it is because I have melted. I make note that it is not yet summer.

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[friedeyes.livejournal.com]

Hopefully your summer won't be like my summer, where we had almost 60 consecutive days of 100+ degrees heat. We're used to the hot Texas summers, but that was ridiculous.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

That's just insane. Do you at least live in or near a desert?

Sydney was all rich grass plains and temperate rainforest, once. Now it's mostly concrete and tarmac, and we wonder where the rain went ...

[friedeyes.livejournal.com]

I live in Austin, which is semi-arid. And, yeah, Austin is the same way: concrete, asphalt and an unhealthy addiction to urban sprawl.

Speaking of rain, I was in New Zealand earlier this year and visited Fiordland. My friend and I did the Doubtful Sound overnight cruise and we didn't quite believe the guides when they told us the average rainfall was 21 feet per year. Then it rained all day and 7 inches more that night, and we believed. (Although I still think 21 feet of rain a year is insane.)