64 in KC this morning with a high of 80 today. A glorious break from the heat, predicted to warm back up next week.
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We had an uncharacteristically mild July, with most days being still warm but less than the usual at-or-near triple digits. This led to a couple of really nice diners on the patio of a few restaurants.
This week it’s heading upwards again. Highs now to mid 90’s amd over 100 by the end of next week.
Back indoors we go.
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Right now heavy rain and loud thunder. I want the lightning strike fires to get washed down.
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Beautiful!! 
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We had a gorgeous long weekend in Capitola/Scotts Valley/Felton, complete with a hike through the redwoods.
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Ever been to Sanborn County Park near Saratoga? We had a couple of hours to kill yesterday in the South Bay so we visited it for the first time. Can’t believe what a local gem it is!
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No, not yet–will have to visit sometime.
Meanwhile, this is a hidden gem. Literally–it’s behind an office complex. Lodato Park Trail | Scotts Valley, CA
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That website isn’t exactly overflowing with information, is it?
Right now in the Rocky Mountain West it is 42° F, and it’s looking like rain and maybe we’ll get snow @ 3000’. 4000’ had a dusting last night. All the larch and aspens are gold, the mountain ash are still full of crimson berries and the robins are getting drunk off of them. The acer trees are ablaze. It is a stellar fall color display this year.
Almost studded tire installation time. I see the lines at the tire stores already.
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low of 42f last night, and I am away. Not sure why I am surprised.
A skiff of snow in NW Montana. Maybe 4" or so. Beautiful day but slick and cloudy.
More coming.
I think i will go somewhere warmer next week if i can.
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That looks familiar! More tonight, they say!
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50+ mph winds here in the semi-rural Midwest
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Visiting NJ, where it’s blech and raining tonight, warmish and gray tomorrow, and bright and cold until we go back to CA.
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76 and clear here on the Garden Island.
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Canada switched to new colour coded alerts 2 days ago.
Where I am right now is under a Yellow Warning Severe Weather Watch for Snow Squalls. It’s pretty bad, bad enough that a new driver would have trouble navigating the road, and it’s dangerous to be walking because of black ice.
London and most cities in Canada have a lot of newcomers lately , including landed immigrants and refugees, as well as temporary foreign workers, and a lot of them seem to get caught without winter boots when we have snow squalls in Nov or Dec. This adds to some of the trickier driving for everyone.
Last year, during a storm when I was driving very carefully, I saw someone jaywalk in light clothing across 2 deep snowbanks and 6 lanes of traffic on a major road that had not been plowed when the road was treacherous due to low visibility, heavy snow, and slippery roads underneath the snow. In terms of the worst winter driving I have experienced, which would go up to 10 in a complete white out, this was around an 8.8/10.
This pedestrian didn’t seem to understand he was putting everyone else at risk, when he could have walked to the stoplights which were only 60 yards away in either direction.
I can hear the sirens from firetrucks responding to accidents right now, and I’m hard of hearing and a mile from the main road.
.All the eastbound lanes of the 401, the highway that runs from Detroit to border of Quebec, through Toronto, were closed near Kitchener 4 hours ago (due to a car accident of some sort). The Niagara Escarpment makes it very difficult to detour when the 401 is blocked on the west side of Toronto between Milton and Toronto.
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Phoenikia, do you get those huge lake effect snow storms off of Lake Huron? This one at 15cm is not that bad but I imagine it can be worse. I was in one off of Lake Erie as I drove south from Buffalo one time and it dumped two feet of snow in less than an hour. The snow tapered off as I drove further from the lake but it came down FAST!
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