Last week inland from me in Redding Ca the temperature high hit a pretty typical temp for August of 101F, while today was 81.
In Sacramento it was 104 last Friday, and yesterday was 76...the forecasters say its because of a cooler air mass dipping further south than usual due to change in jet stream...
As people do, this sparked some conversation at work, and a man I work with said that he went to Europe several years ago, and flew for hours over frozen territory, and last summer it was only about an hour and half...if you figure a airliner in flight at say 530 mph covers about 2120 miles (ground speed conversion at tailwind+/- 0) and in 1 1/2 hours that would be about 795 miles, the difference of 1325 miles. This means that a journey of 5300 miles from San Francisco to London that once was 40% over frozen landscapes is now only 15% over ice.
Wow, I better think about land further up the hill, high tide is going to get higher...
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