Needles & Grooves

It's a high of 92 degrees over here today. Tomorrow is October 1st. This is insane.

Heh. This weekend I posted an IG pic of me in the cold at my farmers market job, and all the Arizona and Texas peeps kept commenting about how lucky I was. I was like "guys, I'm working outside in 40F weather in September..." It's lovely if you can actually go back inside or get another layer when the temperature doesn't rise as predicted, but...

I went to Hartford last week where they have actual fall weather. It does actually exist! Now if someone would tell New Orleans to get with the program...

It’s a high of 60 today. It’s nice

We've had Houston-like humidity for the past few months, and it is doing a number on my allergies. Ready for some dryer air to blow through. Other things I'm done with for 2019...glasses fogging up as soon as I step outside, and sweating through shirts daily.

Increasing humidity and decreasing autumn/winter weather (even by San Diego standards) played a significant role in my decision to leave the southwest.

Re: sweaty shirts. As a non-skinny person these shirts are a godsend Sweatproof Undershirt for Men with Underarm Sweat Pads (Original Fit, Crew Neck) at Amazon Men’s Clothing store

Unfortunately, I'm a sweater. Always have been. I operate at a good weight, and all I have to do is step outside in a T-shirt, and I start to feel it. My mom used to get really concerned about me as a kid because I would come home from playing basketball at the neighbor's house, and my ace was beet red and I was just soaked.

Me too! But they help slightly. Although we get like one 90 degree a day a year so sweating’s not really too preventable no matter what you wear

It's been weird this year. It was really rainy and mild for the first part of the year and even early Summer. Then the heat came. No rain, and upper 90s/low 100s for a good 6-8 weeks...with lots of humidity. Add into that the Saharan dust and smoke from Mexico which triggered my allergies in a horrible way, and this Summer has just been brutal. Ready for a change.

That sounds awful

a local farmer warned me that the coming winter will be brutal when I was complaining about the humid heat at the market. he always pays mind to the Farmers' Almanac, says it's usually dead on