Just in from Lifeguard-Surfer-Sailor-Skier-Screenwriter, John "JT" Thomas, a bit of historical nostalgia in view of the wacky weather we've experienced this past week with scorching dry heat, zero tides, thunder, lightning, hallucinatory cloud formations, a rainbow off the color charts, and now heat and humidity, not to mention a sunset to end all sunsets last nite...
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From: john thomas
Subject: "IT'S NOT THE HEAT, IT'S THE HUMIDITY........."
Date: September 30, 2010 2:56:12 PM PDT
To: WM. E MAGUIRE
FEELIN A BIT BEDRAGGLED BY THE MONSOONAL HEAT N' HUMIDITY ? CHECK THIS OUT.....
JUNE 17,1859. A DUST LADEN SIMOOM (OR DEATH WIND) WIND FROM FROM THE MOJAVE ROARS OVER THE COASTAL RANGE FROM THE NORTH EAST AND IGNITES THE SEA PLAIN FROM SANTA BARBARA TO GOLETA. TEMPS AT 7 AM WERE 73 DEGREES AND BY 2 PM TOPPED OUT AT 133 DEGREES!!!!!!!!!! THE TEMPS AT 5 PM WERE STILL 121 DEGREES. BY 7 PM THAT EVENING THE TEMP WAS BACK TO A COMFY 73. FEATURE LIFE GUARDING IN AN ASBESTOS BLAST SUIT ??? FEELING COOLER ??? THAT HIGH TEMP STOOD AS A US RECORD UNTIL THE MID 1970'S WHEN DEATH VALLEY REACHED 134...... WHEW !!!!!!
YOURS IN LIFE GUARDING
JT
( Source material/link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simoom )
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Many Thanks to JT for posting us all about Simoom, aka "Death Wind".
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1 comment:
There were a couple of days like that in the late 70s (i will have to look them up to be sure of the dates), when a 3'-4' southwest swell was blown completely flat by the Santa-ana off shore winds coming down the canyons at 90+mph. Trash cans were blowing into the ocean, as was everything else that wasn't tied down. My favorite was someone's pool cover, that came across from up Santa Monica Canyon somewhere, and just get going about 20' in the air.
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