We (my wife and I) were at the firemen's tournament in Ironwood Thursday night and Friday, had a great time and got a lot of good pictures, some of which will likely turn up here in a few days. Wait till you see some of the shirttail parade stuff. The theme was "Tropical Inferno," and there must have been a run on cocoanuts at U.P. stores, from the evidence I saw. The photos will explain why.
It's gotten hot up here again, and
He's hanging out here again today because his apartment gets hot when the weather does. And it's hot. On Friday, during the races, temperatures got into the low to mid 90s. For this area, that's pretty damn hot. I was running around (literally), getting pictures of the races most of the day Friday.
I got a little sunburn, on part of my neck and the back of a hand. My wife put it on, and she didn't do as thorough a job with the sunscreen as I do. She got sunburned around her neck and chest. I asked her several times, "Shouldn't I put some of this stuff on you." "No, I'm OK." The third time I asked, she said, "Yeah, I think it's getting hot now." But by then, the sun's rays had done their stuff. Fortunately for her, her skin is nowhere near as sensitive as mine.
Only after the races ended and we walked to the car did I realize how hot it had become. The car thermometer said 99 when we got inside. We took refuge inside a K-mart for a while and each had an Icee at their grill. That hit the spot. The car thermometer didn't fall below 95 until about 10 miles down the road. It was in the mid 80s by the time we got home.
But storms were following us. As you regular readers know, the rainstorms have routinely been passing north, south, east and west of us all summer but never hitting us. Friday night, hours after we got home, we finally got some rain and a little thunder and lightning. Saturday: sunny and low 90s, with storms passing east, south, north and west of us. Saturday night, it clouded up. This time the storms were only south of us.
It's been cloudy all day Sunday, and this afternoon we started getting some light to moderate rain. It's been raining for a few hours now. Not heavy at all. But it's finally rain for us, and it's also shielding the sun. That's cool!
It's a chance to prepare for Monday, when we enter the roaster. The forecasters are saying we may hit 100 (which would be the first 100 here since 1947!!!) and a heat index from 105 to 110. The low Monday night: about 74. It got to 97 during the rodeo a few weeks ago, but that was a dry heat and fairly easy to deal with since it cooled off nicely after dark. No such luck this time.
I know what some of you are thinking: child's play! But imagine temperatures close to zero and six inches of snow in Phoenix. That's how out-of-character this heat is to us. And my thick U.P. blood has a hard time adjusting to it.
It's forecast to be just slightly cooler Tuesday and Tuesday night. But the cold front is scheduled to arrive by Wednesday, and high temperatures will be back down in the 70s. It'll feel so good.
Late this week, my wife and I will be off on another trip. This time it's a mini-vacation. We're going into northeastern Wisconsin, to visit Green Bay, the Door Peninsula and Appleton. My wife is researching a few places she would like to see, such as a maritime museum and a old-time schoolhouse. Maybe we'll get to see the Timber Rattlers' game (Class A minor league baseball) in Appleton Friday night, including a fireworks show after the game. She seems willing to go, so ...
We're about to hit a major milestone. But I'll write about that later.
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