Saturday, June 17, 2006

Ahhh! Damaging Straight Line Wind Gusts!*
*Alternate title: Help, Help, I'm Being Oppressed! 

Weird weather coming. The National Weather Service releases a severe weather alert, which says:

...OPPRESSIVE HEAT ON SUNDAY WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED MONDAY AND TUESDAY...

HIGH TEMPERATURES ON SUNDAY ARE EXPECTED TO REACH THE MID 90S...THE HOT TEMPERATURES COMBINED WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE MID 60S WILL BRING HEAT INDICES NEAR 100 DEGREES. HEAT EXHAUSTION CAN OCCUR WITH PROLONGED EXPOSURE TO THESE HOT CONDITIONS. YOU CAN REDUCE THE EFFECTS OF THE HEAT BY LIMITING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES IN THE SUN DURING THE HOTTEST TIME OF THE DAY. ALSO...DRINK PLENTY OF NON-ALCOHOLIC FLUIDS.

ON MONDAY...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN THE LATE MORNING OR EARLY AFTERNOON... THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WIND GUSTS. IN ADDITION...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MAY MOVE IN... FROM THE WEST LATE IN THE AFTERNOON OR EVENING. THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH THESE STORMS WOULD BE DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WIND GUSTS.

Plan for tomorrow: lie around panting. Hopefully, by the time the family arrives for Father's Day it will have begun to cool off a bit, and we can move on to the alcoholic fluids.

Also, apologies for the cut-and-paste caps. Man, those national weather service folks make such a big deal over everything.

posted by boyhowdy | 8:28 PM |

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