I am Hosting a guest in 11 months for 3 weeks. The Guest inf...
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I am Hosting a guest in 11 months for 3 weeks. The Guest informed me that her husband is severely allergic to cats. We are ho...
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HELLO monsoon my old friend......... it’s nice to talk to you again........ it’s been such a LONG time;
.... now we breathe and am just feelin’ fine........
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼💧:sweat_droplets::sweat_droplets::sweat_droplets:☔️☔️☔️☔️🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🎼🎼🎼
The skies have been painted in a flat light grey colour, no visible signs of cloud. The temperature has finally dropped from mid 30s (Celsius) to mid 20s. Although the humidity is around 94%, we are feeling fine! The sun is hidden and the plants are getting a quick drenching. A deep and cleansing drink that will continue across the week. Only an hour ago the sun was beating down and the "grandies” needed more sun block whilst swimming, or they were going to have to have a break from the UV rays.
The Australian Monsoon is late across the Top End - NT & WA, but we long for it for months on end. Here in Darwin we essentially have two seasons: Hot & dry OR hot & wet. The local indigenous, from the Tiwi Islands, have a calendar of six separate seasonal cycles. What is interesting is that the high tourist season is across the Dry Season. But more and more, the discerning visitor is opting for a different experience of heat, sunshine and the beautiful storms that constantly return to this part of the world during the Wet Season.
What kind of weather are you experiencing in your neck of the woods? Cold and dry? Blizzards? Equatorial? Heatwaves?
The break from the oppressive heat is fantastic, spectacular! 😍
But by the end of the wet season, I am sick of controlling and removing moulds that want to raise their ugly heads either inside or on paths and pavers. Water pressure cleaning is constant. No snow shovelling here! Lol...
Please let me know what you are currently experiencing, the weather’s beauty and it’s challenges for hosting.
cheers
Cathie
Still perfect @Ann72.
But I do like the early monsoon rains, pre mould etc, so I’ll just have to hang around here for awhile longer!
Luckily the grandkids managed to get a long swim before yesterday’s storm. It rains so heavy it hurts the skin if in the water; splashback everywhere..... They call it “happy rain” because it is still warm..... Not like the “sad” rain down south!
LOL @Robin4 mea maxima culpa! I love that we're on the same spinning blue marble with such different experiences!
I decided to add your town to my weather app so I can be more appropriately sensitive - but I'm as bad at geography as I am at metric measurements and couldn't decide which one to choose:
Please help!
In the meantime, it's 37F in New York (where I live) and a balmy 44F in Sedgwick, Maine (where I host) - and please don't ask me to figure out what that means in Celsius! 🙂
South Australia should do the trick Ann!
This is the forecast I use for guests.
http://www.bom.gov.au/sa/forecasts/mount-barker.shtml
Before each guest arrives I download the weeks local weather, print this page and slip that into a folder inside the cover of the house rules.
I provide them with a weather station (suitably bolted down) so they have all the local stats at a glance.
We started off the day hot today....at 8.30AM it got to 35c but a change has come through and now at 2.30pm temp is down around 27c....great after yesterday.
Ann I have had 74 years on this earth and I have never experienced anything like yesterdays heat, you could barely breathe it, it was so hot, you could not pick up anything outside without burning your hands. We harvest our rain water for the garden in an above ground storage tank, with taps running, the cold tap was hotter than the hot tap!!!!
Yesterday was a day that comes once a century....in fact there hasn't been a day that hot for the past two centuries!
Enjoy your 6.5c Ann, last time I was in NY we had a week of 90s and there was a heat haze that hung over the city at what would have been the height of the twin towers. I had to take a photo of those searchlight beams that speared upwards into space, they balooned as they went through the heat haze.......I am proud of it, one of the best photos I have taken...
Cheers......Rob
We toured the memorial site Monday September 9th 2013! That was as close as they would let us book to the actually anniversary date.
Ade with our friend Sue who travelled with us ......
Our allotted visit time was 5.30.00pm and after spending some time at the site we grabbed a bite to eat at one of those little cafe/restaurants. When we came out darkness had decended, and that is when I took that shot!
Wednesday 11th, anniversary day was hot again, 35c and we stayed away from the Battery Point area because of the road closures and massive security presence. We have friends (My God son and his wife) who have a lovely Brownstone in Williamsburg so we spent a bit of time with them for the week we are there this time and then we boarded the 'Eurodam' ( I wonder if the sanitiser will bleep that word) for a cruise up the East coast finishing in Quebec!
If we are talking about the same week Ann, yeah that was a great week!
Cheers......Rob
@Robin4 Great photo! I'm so glad you did that. It's such a beautiful memorial. I went and took a tour as soon as it opened. Hardly anybody was there. I live and work just a few blocks away and can see the top of the Freedom Tower from my apartment window.
I was referring to the original 9/11, but September is often very beautiful in New York.
Your trip sounds fantastic! I don't know anyone who's done anything like that. I usually drive the 9 hours from New York to Maine - it would be nice to cruise it - on a BIG boat - see my note to Cathie about me and boats lol.
