Sissy stuff to keep warm with during the "VORTEX"?

[samantha1]

the problem with the weather is that you cannot tell from day to the next what will happen.The rain has stopped today and is very humid now.

[Angela M...]

This weather is crazy, yesterday evening I went to the store and the temp had dropped down to 62 F. I was wearing shorts and a short sleeve shirt and sandals. The cold wind just about froze me to death. Today I go out and the temp is 52 F but at least I put on long pants and a jacket. If that was our summer it is the shortest on record.

[Betty]

you cannot tell from day to the next what will happen.

The weather peeps in my area have been pretty fair at predicting it most of the time. But it's crazy chaotic weather patterns I've never seen before about 3 years ago in this area.

Just until a few years ago, most of the time our weather fronts came almost directly from the west to us. You could predict that we'd be getting almost the same weather they just had in Chicago, Detroit, & Cleveland, with a little more moisture & precipitation picked up as the front passed over the rest of the Great Lakes.

These days we're regularly getting weather fronts from the north, NW, south, SE, & SW. It's rare we get our weather directly from the west anymore.

Yep. It got down to 48F (9C) here last night. Rare for early June.

The good news is the humidity, pollution, ozone, & pollen count has gone down. So for the first time in about 2 weeks, I'm breathing better since last night. I wasn't gasping for air just trying to get to the bathroom to go pee anymore.

I'm actually getting some chores done that I fell way behind on, because I couldn't move around much without serious breathing problems for 2 weeks. When it's very difficult just to make it to the bathroom, or make a simple meal, nothing was getting done around the house.

Kitties are extra cuddly & playful since last night. They like it cool or cold. They don't like heat at all. When it's warm they don't play much, or cuddle & become anti-social. They won't even interact or cuddle with each other much when it's warm.

Sure I got AC & air filters. They keep the air cleaner, & the humidity lower so I can breathe better. But I can't run them on high or all the time without worrying about how I'm gonna pay the higher electric bill. So I tend to run them just enough to keep things bearable, & livable, rather than as good as I can make it for me.

[Betty]

Heatwave in the SW USA has broken record high temperatures. Phoenix reported 116F (47C), & some areas are reporting 120F (49C). Airlines were redirected to Texas because it was to hot to fly in or land in Phoenix. It is said that the electronics would overheat, & the tires would melt or burn trying to land on the hot & now very soft/runny runways.

[Angela M...]

Betty, the Toronto weather channel said you are getting thunderstorms in Buffalo tonight. We have been having 60 km winds for a couple of hours now but it is a warm wind due to excessive heat today. Can't open the windows tonight or it would be too warm to sleep.
I was reading in a Toronto paper yesterday about the waterfront in Buffalo and the revitalization in the city attracting tourists again. The photo's looked good and it is nice to see the city getting ahead again after the loss of industry like around our cities.

[Betty]

Nope we only had a light sprinkle here & almost no wind (Allentown Arts section of the city). Up north from us, out of town, they had some thunder & lightning, but I could only hear a few faint distant thunders.

On AM & SW radio I was able to pick up a lot of distant continuous lightning induced static, so there was a lot of sparks flying, but not anywhere near me.

But my DSL internet connection kept cutting out. The path my DSL usually connects through takes the signal to Lockport to the north, or Niagara Falls, or sometimes Toronto. So just about any time there's lightning to the north of me, it knocks out my DSL.

It didn't get too hot here they say, but it sure felt uncomfortable to me. It felt stuffier & muggier than yesterday even though they say it was hotter yesterday. Also I was breathing better yesterday, & today it was terrible. Maybe we had poor air quality today.

[samantha1]

hi,every time at this time of year,my hayfever is getting worse every year and doing my head in.This year was the worse i had and it is causing me to get back ache and my legs are given me problems

[BabyLock]

HAY FEVER Yep I can get it real bad too - BUT I find relief to go north somewhere where the temperature
dives near freezing and driving the pollen out of the air. A couple days of that and I can settle in till the
Fever has run it course getting doused with rain and filtered out of the atmosphere !
In Minnesota about 100 miles or so north of the cities thinking of Duluth and winds off the lake is usually
enough to do the trick. Other readers may not be so fortunate to have the almost perfect respite.
I hate taking any kind of OTC medications or even prescriptions too many side effects worse than the
hay fever itself. Other alternatives is to camp out in a house with central air and use a high quality air
filter ! Washing clothing often reducing the attraction of bring it in from the outside. Pray for some
thunder bumpers knocking it down early on in the season. The pine woods are a great place to play
but stay out of the fields !

[samantha1]

The weather in uk has gone potty for the last few days with temperature    going up to 30-35c and nite temperatures last night 25c.Sleep is unbearable so got  up at 0330 and went back 0630 and must get up at 0930

[Betty]

Golly that's like 86-95F. 25C is 77F & should be comfy for us, but I'll bet with the UK being surrounded by water like we are downwind & surrounded by from the Great Lakes, the humidity was way up there making it more uncomfortable. Usually heat with high humidity is also associated with poor air quality & high ozone levels, making things extra uncomfortable, & harder to breathe that air.

I know that people laugh at us in warmer climates, as this is not big deal to them. But it depends on what you're used to & what your genetics are used to. We laugh at those people when we see them shivering when it gets 40F (4C), or closing their city down with less of 6 inches of snow.

It used to be anything about 20F (-7c) was too cold for us. But with recent years of these "vortexes" now 10F (-12F) is too cold instead. We don't worry about snow unless it gets 3-6 feet deep (1-2 meters) up here. 20F would probably kill somebody up here from down south. Most of us won't bother putting on a coat if it's around 40F (4C) unless we expect to be outside for almost an hour or more. But 90F (32C) is a killer for many of us.

About 10 years ago, at the entertainment complex I worked at, I was amazed one afternoon with Buffalo temperatures in the 90s F, with our sunny patio almost 100F to see almost a dozen people eating & having a wonderful time outside without getting gooey sweaty. I remarked that it was amazing, & that they must be from Arizona or something, because it felt like an oven out there. Later, the waiter, sweating like a pig, half dieing with the heat out there confirmed, that the entire group was indeed from Arizona & loving it.