Weekend Plans Post: Brisk. Finally.
I woke up this morning despite myself at 5AM. Realized that I wasn’t getting back to sleep, sighed, got up, started the work day, and then realized that I had left my office window open a crack for the kittens and thus: I needed a hoodie.
For the first time in half a year, I needed a hoodie.
Of course, by 8AM, I had stopped needing it.
But for a delightful couple of hours I was *COLD*. It was *WONDERFUL*.
And thus we’ve finally kicked off The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year. Checked the 10-day… Every night, lows in the 50’s and next weekend? Lows in the 40s. It’ll be nice to think about when it’ll be the right time to dig in the closet for the utility hoodies (on top of the one single emergency hoodie).
One of my friends moved out from Denver to Florida a couple of months ago and he wrote everybody saying that he saw more rain in two hours than he saw in any given month in Colorado and more rain during the week than we got all summer.
So it’s going to be a good season this year. Finally.
I’m going to start making pies again.
This weekend is a game night and it’s going to be the last backyard BBQ of the summer. As much as I hate summer, I miss the burgers. But it’ll be nice to have pies again.
So… what’s on your docket?
(Featured image is “Better than the Superbowl”. Photo taken by the author.)
I have been in Denver this summer on a work assignment. I grew up in Rapid City and assumed Denver’s climate would be similar. It’s been much hotter and drier and generally more unpleasant than I expected, plus ozone levels that have done my respiratory system no favors. Don’t know if this year was an outlier.Report
Denver has a bit more air pollution than Colorado Springs and surely a heck of a lot more than Rapid City.
Growing up in Michigan, I grew up with several feet of snow in the winter and several inches of rain the rest of the year and the first year I moved out here I had nosebleeds.
Now, of course, I know that this is the *GOOD* air. This is the right amount of humidity.
When I go back east, I am in a constant state of wondering “how did I live like this?”Report
The northern Front Range — ie, the part north of the Palmer Divide — was warmer and drier than usual this summer. Metro Denver has been in violation of ozone standards pretty much as long as those have been around. There was a stretch when new cars were getting cleaner faster than the population was growing, but we’re past that and the Brown Cloud is making a comeback.
With the EPA’s new tighter standard on ozone, it’s unclear whether Denver can ever be in compliance. Topography and out-of-state wildfire smoke alone will put the city over the limit often enough to be in “serious” violation.Report