Dinsdale wrote:Bro - while there's little-to-no humidity, don't underestimate the heat of the Rogue Valley... which it does for a much longer stretch than the Flyover.
Since I've been working outside there (and will be for a few weeks), it's been nice that it's been "unseasonably cool," as per the locals -- upper 80's to low 90's. And now that July has come, that will quickly change. Get a good inversion going (frequent), and it's 105 all day, cooling to 80-85 at night.
Regardless -- your neck of the woods is known for... nothing. The Rogue Valley is where Earnest Hemmingway, Zane Grey, Jack London spent much of their time, fishing for salmon and steelhead, shooting critters, and being hot.
There you have it. Nothing but world class barbecue and a penchant for repetitive insults here. Never mind that Missouri native sons single-handedly won two World Wars (we have the monuments to prove it), carried the mail, and provisioned the expansion of the American West. Not to mention our kin and kith populated a little known U&L backwater called
Oregon enough for it to actually achieve statehood. But why let history get in the way of a particularly bad take?
But clearly, a severe lack of Internet no-it-alls locally is destined to set us back
hours.
Who knew that our heat falls severely short of U&L standards as well? Even our misery comes in second best.
Oh, I’m sure we’ll get around hashing out the weather again in six months, and U&L
cold is sure to defy even the continental extremes published in the paper each day. Guy-who-works-outdoors-in-Oregon-every-day out front will tell you.
BTW, Hemingway got his start as a reporter at the
Kansas City Star. But if you’re proud of a nut-bag author that offed himself with a shotgun blast to the grill and caught lots of fish in your state, then I guess I am too…
