Heat wave!!!

Well, when we first moved to Portland, we thought about getting central air conditioning but decided against it. Who needs it, when Portland normally gets a few hot days in the summer—usually averaging in the low 90s or so—and then it’s back to a moderate summer, low humidity, pretty near perfect weather?

We do! Can we say ‘global warming.’ We have had our second wave of 100+ temps in just over a month. Today it reached 105 degrees! Unbelievable. And it’s not going to cool for another two days in any significant way. So, it’s almost 6pm and we are sitting our living room, fan going, dog panting. It’s only 87 degrees inside our house. Oh wait, it was 86 just a half hour ago. It’s going the wrong way!!! We will likely sleep in our basement tonight. It’s a lot cooler down there.

So when you come to visit us in Portland, we’ll be sure it’s not in the middle of July or August! I don’t know if this will continue every summer, but it could be a sign of things to come for sure, especially in light of the global nature of this increase in temperatures. And we’ll be sure to install air conditioning for the few, well obviously less few, times we’ll need it!