Let's Talk About the Weather

Let's talk about anything other than computer problems!  

2019 has been a hot year and it's been a hot summer.  Here in Georgia, it's been a hot September - it seemed Summer was insistent on broiling the South for as long as it was still officially "summer."  Almost every day, we had temperatures in the high 90s with humidities to match.  It was brutal.

All that ended yesterday.  Suddenly, just like that, the temperatures fell and we've enjoyed temperatures in the balmy 70s the past two days.  No big storms or fronts passed through - it was just a matter of waking up Thursday morning to a comfortable climate.  Time to open a window and enjoy, rather than endure, being outdoors.

Today was also the Global Climate Strike.  As the Times put it, "Anxious about their future on a hotter planet and angry at world leaders for failing to arrest the crisis, masses of young people poured into the streets on every continent on Friday for a day of global climate protests. Organizers estimated the turnout to be around four million in thousands of cities and towns worldwide." 

It was the first time so many children and young people marched in so many places around the world. Police estimated that a combined 300,000 participants marched in Berlin, Melbourne, and London. In New York City, an estimated 60,000 people marched  in Lower Manhattan. Nearly 1,000 people gathered outside the State Capitol in Atlanta for the protest. 

For my part, I took my usual every-other-day stroll along Tanyard Creek and the Beltline Trail.   It  was nice to enjoy the hike for once without worrying about heat stroke.  It was also nice not to have to rush the morning and get out before the temperatures got too high - I walked when I felt like it, which turned out to be between 1:00 and 2:00 p.m., followed by a late lunch.

Human-scale temperatures, a working computer - ah, life is good again!