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[John Larkin]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2023 05:48:32 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:

On a sunny day (Mon, 26 Jun 2023 22:32:36 -0700) it happened John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote in
56sk9ihgngedecgt6lpenr1fbmobnkkvo4@4ax.com>:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4frh5it44h2066815izxd/20230625_161350.jpg?dl=0&rlkey=jca60czm0xgflf4g84cu6k47d

That looks really nice...
Everything is flat here....

That\'s Fort Funston. It has a bunch of giant concrete structures that
used to be gun mounts, built when people feared that the Japanese
would attack the west coast, which they did a tiny bit. I wish they
had left the big guns, but they were cut up for scrap at the end of
the war.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/eqi5m9xt57i6jcdo0jcfp/20230625_161323.jpg?dl=0&rlkey=yz8f8hdqgs51tc0cvn0odmzqs

We do have some dunes on the west coast here too..
https://www.wandel.nl/routes/dit-zijn-de-mooiste-duinwandelingen-van-nederland/
Not very high though...

That looks like the Gulf coast of Florida. Dunes with big grasses,
sugar sand beach, warm.

I grew up in New Orleans, very hot and very flat, and the 3D-ness here
still impresses me. The natives barely notice.



Things are kind of a mess here now, after the massive rains. There are
trees (and a few houses) down everywhere.

Yes I did see the weather reports: hurricanes and tornados in the US, super hot temperatures.....

Not here. We have the heat on. Parkas outdoors.

Amazing, I would have expected SF to be much warmer in this part of the year?

SF is unusually cold, even locally. There\'s an upwelling of cold sea
water and wind from the west, so it\'s cold and foggy most of the
summer, and it never freezes. Residential air conditioning is very
rare. Solar panels don\'t pay off.

It\'s 52F right now, 7:20 AM.

Some people hate it.

 

[Jan Panteltje]

On a sunny day (Tue, 27 Jun 2023 07:23:33 -0700) it happened John Larkin
<jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote in
<2orl9i1jp6uhdaehc4pn1ep6s361087jp5@4ax.com>:

On Tue, 27 Jun 2023 05:48:32 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid
wrote:

On a sunny day (Mon, 26 Jun 2023 22:32:36 -0700) it happened John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote in
56sk9ihgngedecgt6lpenr1fbmobnkkvo4@4ax.com>:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4frh5it44h2066815izxd/20230625_161350.jpg?dl=0&rlkey=jca60czm0xgflf4g84cu6k47d

That looks really nice...
Everything is flat here....

That\'s Fort Funston. It has a bunch of giant concrete structures that
used to be gun mounts, built when people feared that the Japanese
would attack the west coast, which they did a tiny bit. I wish they
had left the big guns, but they were cut up for scrap at the end of
the war.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/eqi5m9xt57i6jcdo0jcfp/20230625_161323.jpg?dl=0&rlkey=yz8f8hdqgs51tc0cvn0odmzqs

We do have some dunes on the west coast here too..
https://www.wandel.nl/routes/dit-zijn-de-mooiste-duinwandelingen-van-nederland/
Not very high though...

That looks like the Gulf coast of Florida. Dunes with big grasses,
sugar sand beach, warm.

Yep, and now with these high temperatures many people at the beaches.
In Zandvoort, I lived there a while, the beach is visited by many people, Amsterdam goes there, just a 30 minutes train drive.
However they build the Formula 1 racing track close to the beach, makes a lot of noise if they are driving there.
More north and south is likely better,.
Scheveningen, lived there too, close to The Hague, is an other nice beach:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheveningen

I grew up in New Orleans, very hot and very flat, and the 3D-ness here
still impresses me. The natives barely notice.



Things are kind of a mess here now, after the massive rains. There are
trees (and a few houses) down everywhere.

Yes I did see the weather reports: hurricanes and tornados in the US, super hot temperatures.....

Not here. We have the heat on. Parkas outdoors.

Amazing, I would have expected SF to be much warmer in this part of the year?


SF is unusually cold, even locally. There\'s an upwelling of cold sea
water and wind from the west, so it\'s cold and foggy most of the
summer, and it never freezes. Residential air conditioning is very
rare. Solar panels don\'t pay off.

It\'s 52F right now, 7:20 AM.

Some people hate it.

11 degrees C?
Here it is now 27 degrees C (81 F) with no sun... cloudy 5:30 pm
One neighbor has solar panels.
I have flexible solar panels I can lay out in the garden if needed, or use on a boat.
You can probably walk on those with boat shoes if properly mounted, but I try to avoid that.
Did some more gardening today.