| Thursday, October 24, 2002 |
10:45 - Hot Tub Weather
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For about six months of the year, Silicon Valley doesn't really have weather. From May through October, and most especially right during those endpoint months, it's hot and dry and still here in the inland valley where the onshore flow can't reach us (but where it keeps the air cool throughout the latter part of the summer). No bugs, either; so nighttimes are spent with the window standing wide open and my arm hanging down the outside wall.
Then there comes a day, usually in late October, when suddenly-- like the sudden palpable flow of cold air that rolls over you when you're camping out, late in the evening, that says "Hi, I'm the air. Nighttime tickover has occurred; I'm going to be cold now"--suddenly the whole region freezes right up. The windows close; the waterbed heater comes on; and I have to stop wearing shorts to work.
That day was yesterday. It was chilly again this morning, so it looks like we're in for the season of interesting cloud patterns and rain sculptures in the skies, and ski season will be upon us soon.
God, I love this place.
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