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[KnottedYet]

Seattle's been having sun for DAYS and DAYS. It's scary, too much sun, we're starting to get twitchy here. Today the radio said we got up to 102 degrees.

That's a bit too much for us soggy Seattle-ites.

[Trek420]

They can't drive in the snow
They get twitchy when it's sunny and hot .....

Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain

[DebW]

Just so some of you can remember what a sunny day is like, here are some pictures from my hike up Grosser Mythens last weekend in Switzerland. There's a restaurant at the top of the big rocky crag (pic 3). The trail up is like a rough staircase chisseled in to stone. Pic 5 shows the 2 lakes I bicycles around the weekend before.

[Crankin]

Lisa, when I was watching the weather last night I thought of you. The whole part of the map in western MA and Albany was covered in reds and pinks, meaning torrential downpours. Somehow, those storms drifted northeast instead of due east...
It's raining here this morning, but we've actually had quite a few days without rain (or at least it came at night when I didn't care).

[uk elephant]

Deb, those pictures look fantastic. Yet another place to add to my long, and ever expanding, list of places I'd like to go! How soon can I retire?

[Duck on Wheels]

Deb, those pictures look fantastic. Yet another place to add to my long, and ever expanding, list of places I'd like to go! How soon can I retire?

Not for decades, my dear! You only just got a job! You've only just started paying off your student loans! But ... you *could* write up a project tracking mice and sheep grazing in Swiss alpine meadows ... I'll just enjoy the pictures, tho'. The real thing would be too much for my acrophobia.

[TsPoet]

We got another 4.3 inches of rain today....still raining, more rain in the forecast, flooding in the area of course.

Seattle's been having sun for DAYS and DAYS. It's scary, too much sun, we're starting to get twitchy here. Today the radio said we got up to 102 degrees.
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It's a bit much for those of us on the desert side of the state, too. Over 100 for over a week. It's been humid, too.
Lisa, Please send rain our way!

[TsPoet]

Just so some of you can remember what a sunny day is like, here are some pictures from my hike up Grosser Mythens last weekend in Switzerland. There's a restaurant at the top of the big rocky crag (pic 3). The trail up is like a rough staircase chisseled in to stone. Pic 5 shows the 2 lakes I bicycles around the weekend before.

Can you imagine a restaurant like that in the US? It would last 6 months, once the novelty wore off, there would be no one left willing to walk more than 25 ft to the restaurant door. Where is the closest parking space??
I love it, it looks beautiful.

[Trek420]

Reading a Consumer Reports review of the National Parks years ago they spoke about crowding in our parks. The reviewer said all one had to do to escape crowding is walk 1 mile in any direction from the car/parking lot . Is that our national personal best?

[Biciclista]

Oh what statistics you quote, Trek! It might have been 102 where Knot lives, but it was 104 at my house when I rode home on Wednesday. And it went down hill from there. The heat just stayed and stayed. At dark it was right below 100 degrees. Even out in my yard, under the trees, this infernal heat was everywhere.
but this morning? 60 something and clouds. Ah, lovely beautiful clouds; and dear Raleighdon has come home from riding Ramrod.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Oh what statistics you quote, Trek! It might have been 102 where Knot lives, but it was 104 at my house when I rode home on Wednesday. And it went down hill from there. The heat just stayed and stayed. At dark it was right below 100 degrees. Even out in my yard, under the trees, this infernal heat was everywhere.
but this morning? 60 something and clouds. Ah, lovely beautiful clouds; and dear Raleighdon has come home from riding Ramrod.

Wow Mimi. Just WOW.
I am glad RD got home safe though. Was he able to ride in the heat ok? I know he was up on some mtn, so maybe that helped?

Meanwhile, yet another day of endless pouring rain here. It's like Noah's Ark time. My composting worms are lining up two by two.

[Veronica]

Reading a Consumer Reports review of the National Parks years ago they spoke about crowding in our parks. The reviewer said all one had to do to escape crowding is walk 1 mile in any direction from the car/parking lot . Is that our national personal best?

That has been our experience at all the National Parks we have visited. We saw a lot of drive up, jump out, take a photo, jump in, drive off.


Veronica