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It’s legit rn

I reluctantly went biking earlier for the first time in 3 weeks and actually didn’t find it too bad. But I just stepped outside and can absolutely smell it. It’s like a chlorine/smoke cross. This continent needs rain.

Northwesterly flows haven’t done this area many favors over the years. Need to get a prolonged flow out of the gulf to fix this mess.

The smokiness seems to have ramped up in the last hour or so. Can barely see the Sugarloaf range and the Catoctin’s look “foggy”.

Now this is the classic swampy mid Atlantic summer of old.

Never lol, though there were a few more hazy days in the summer. Not sure I buy the improved pollution thing too much. There seems to be less of a vibrant blue sky than when I grew up, though my eyesight is not a strength of mine and there could be other reasons for it (more air traffic, cloud seeding, whatever).

This wildfire smoke thing was not a thing like this in the 80s and 90s, that I recall. In other news, the humidity right now is quite impressive.

If you play hoops, then you know that this is goat-level weather (near 80, mostly cloudy/partly sunny, and mostly calm winds). I loved the desert sun, but it was breezy (unusually breezy) and obviously dry almost every day.

Thought I might see my first storm in over 2 weeks, but it missed mby. Might have to wait a bit, based on the forecast.

Came home today after spending 2.5 weeks in Vegas and that humidity slapped. Reminded me of when I was traveling to/from Denver for work years ago.

Lol wow.

This Vegas heat is getting aggressive. Approaching 110. I’ve been getting my sunny fix…and now starting to crave a couple of gray and cooler days lol.

Looks like it’s been another mostly cloudy stretch there…I don’t miss that. Definitely replenishing my vitamin D tank in the Mojave, but it’s been legitimately breezy and gusty at times almost every day. I don’t remember it being like this on my prior trips.

That’s the problem I’ve faced a couple times while hiking out here in the summer (when it’s 100, not 110 bc I’m not messing with that)…there’s just no shade.

Oh I did and my car felt very far away lol.