Cold Again.

As I write this, it is -5 Celsius outside. People in normally cold areas might say that's nothing but this isn't a normally cold area.

I can remember when I was a kid in the 80s when it was way colder than this. Haven't really seen that kind of cold since.

I have early memories of icicles off the front porch overhang. Seeing the town weather channel displaying a -9 F temperature. Snow, though it has snowed here several times since then.

It isn't unusual to see warm temperatures in the winter time. I can remember Februaries where it was 90 outside.

I wish it was now. I am not exactly comfortable when it is hot, not that 90 is hot by this area's standards, but hot weather doesn't hurt. My poor feet....

It was perihelion several hours ago. Closest to the Sun. The problem is, the Earth is tilted about 24 degrees. The part of it facing away from the Sun is our northern hemisphere's part. Winter just got going a few weeks ago.

It is a long time to March and April. Typically a time of storms here. You know how I feel about storms if you read this blog regularly.

This cold will persist for some time but it won't be this freaking cold very often.

I am a night owl, always have been. My 'day' is the coldest part of the night. I do sleep better when it is cold but that is not a reason to like it.

There hasn't been any ice...yet. There is talk of a possibility later in the week.

Until the floodgates of the arctic close, this will not be a pleasant week.

Waiting for 80s again. That is great, mid-80s. A comfortable temperature.

Unwelcome Cold

That fucking tropical storm, I forgot to look for a picture of it. I think it was called 'Nuri' or something like it.

It distorted the jet stream and let loose the bitter cold of the polar airmass flow down into the middle of North America weeks too early.

We were not spared. Where it was 80 yesterday, it is 48 as I write this in the afternoon.

That is the thing about tropical storms, they affect everything.

Hurricane Season ends at the end of the month. It is still likely, well, if environment is conducive for it.

I will be cold for a while. I have turned on my heater for the first time since last April.

I have to shave later, smh. Can't let it go on too long, becomes hard to shave it. I will man up and do it.

Too bad I can't post a picture of my peena when I am cold. I think it is funny as it retracts like that. Okay, no more goofiness.

I'm cold!

Not a Hate Sunday

It was all right today. Had a pretty normal day, not like yesterday fixing that fucking water line. I have to do that occasionally, under the house because pvc is a substandard building material.

I was able to write some, enjoy my music. I do have to help cook but that is an everyday thing for me.

I went to wm and there was the usual panic but it wasn't so bad because it was rather dead. The wm I worked in would be packed on a sunday and it probably still is as I write this.

It will storm later, a squall line. Thunderstorms stroke my anxiety like teasing the tiger. It will bite back. Unless the power goes out, a historical possibility here during storms, I will be all right.

I remember like 11 years ago, down the hill from here, I was on WebTV and the power went out, a beast of a storm outside. I peed on myself I was so scared. I won't forget that.

It hasn't really done that since but it will again eventually and I will be scared again, I admit. I know the elemental power of the weather. There is no reason not to be scared.

I have a weather radio because of that. I have weatherbug, pay attention to the NWS and the local tv stations in this area. Can't watch them if the storm is too bad, the directv goes out.

The dude on the local NBC station said it will pass through here quickly, which is typical of a springtime pattern, not autumn, which we presently are in.

Now tell me that people haven't fucked up the weather.

I forgot about the cyclone ravaging India. I would have posted a satellite picture of it but it takes some doing looking for the GOES floaters assigned to specific tropical systems.

I am glad Vongfong weakened to tropical storm level and is not ravaging Japan.

I will be here writing despite the storm. It will hit about the time I take a bath/shower. What joy would that be.

Cold Reminder

If you have read my blog for a while, you know how I hate cold weather. It hurts and numbs.

A cold front swept through this area where it was 98 yesterday, and dropped the temperature dramatically. It is 57 F as I write this, wind chill of 52 F.

I am adapted to hot weather, as it has been toasty hot so even a relatively mild temperature like 57 feels cold. I am not shivering nor are my feet numb so it is not truly cold.

Cold will be back. It is seasonal starting in this area typically late in October. I remember years where hot weather persisted until November. I do not believe this will be one of those years.

I don't appreciate this reminder of cold. I am tempted to turn on my heater but that is ridiculous.

I start to feel cold when the temperature drops below 75. I can get a chill even at 80.

If this upcoming cold season is as bad as the last one, I might invest in a spacesuit so I don't have to freeze.

Assuming I don't harm myself before then, of course.

Too Warm

As I get older, I am a few years away from 40, I have tended to get more sensitive to extremes in temperature. You know from this blog I can't take cold at all.

But what of warm? Understand: Every summer of my life, and the 38th one is imminent, has been HOT. I mean 105F, 40C with 90% humidity.

That is typical August here.

It is 86 outside as I write this. Hot weather never used to bother me. I would be out in it and eh, it is the way things are.

But in the last few years, I have gotten to where I can't deal with it much at all. How did this happen? I may be of Celtic ancestry but I am all Texan. Texans should be immune to the heat.

It gets so warm in here.

I have been going to sleep earlier. This is more about being bored and I get sleepy when bored.

It isn't even May yet and yet I am complaining about the heat. Right.

The Heat hasn't even begun yet.

F*ck This Cold

Understand that this is Central Tx. It gets to 105 F in the highest days of August for weeks at a time.

I am freezing my tail off. Only yesterday (Saturday as I sleep in the daytime) it was 72 F.

What is causing this? I feel bad for people up north having to deal with colder temperatures but the fact is, they are used to it. We native Texans are not.

I hate cold weather. My feet are frozen, I cannot feel my toes. I stay by the heater, drying out my skin. It is not good.

I talked about the turning off the water heater thing before. I cannot wash like normal. I no longer have dia-icky but I do need to clean up.

I feel miserable. I pee often because I have a fast liquid metabolism. Going into that cold bathroom, it is no fin, and exposing the most sensitive appendage I have to the cold. Cold.

I suppose in the very distant future, as the Universe expands into oblivion. Cold will be the only thing. Just cold everywhere.

But that is a long time from now, no humans will be around to read this. If, indeed, if the web is eternal.

Cold Persists

It has been colder than it has been. I mean, it is so cold, the dog's water dish outside freezes solid. What is going on? This is most unwelcome. I hate it so.

Staying by the heater is drying out my skin and hair. I use Dove Sensitive to wash my face and it shouldn't dry like that. It is too cold really to take a shower but feeling clean is a powerful motivator to suck it up and do it.

I have gone to the store. I had anxiety moments, a girl startled me, I have anxiety driving. I made a mix cd and put some good things on there to help ease driving. No trance except for Uplifting Trance. 'Home' by Chakra remains my favorite.

What is it like where you are? It is not -4 C like it is here, I hope. This cold won't last forever. The normal climate keeps trying to re-establish itself if none of these arctic cold fronts encroach on the south.

They are not needed and certainly not wanted.

Cold Again

It was all right for a few days. Didn't even need to turn on the heater and put on my Hanes Premium sweatshirts. I mean, it would get worse in the next to days and I would have to put on my sweater.

But as this Weather Channel (despite its awful excuse for a tv channel booted from Directv) graphic shows why it is unseasonably frigid in Tx.

The jet stream, which you can see by the wind paths all but spills Arctic air down into the continental US. I mean, sure, it will get down to 19 or so tomorrow night but that's mild compared to the northern states.

I get cold so easy. I am a warm weather creature. We can laugh about this when it is June and 105 outside.

Better For Now

I'm sorry if bitterness and personal feelings bothered you. I was upset yesterday.

The water situation is fixed. It took some new fittings and a ring clamp. That stupid pvc glue, like plastic on your hands after it dries.

It felt good to wash again and wear clean clothes again. I wore the same shirt for 4 days. Well, no more.

It is not so cold now, 17 degrees C outside now. It won't last but it is all right for now. Humidity is rather high, I feel it. That would keep temperatures from going down too far and possibly is causing fog.

Since I don't go anywhere, I don't really have to deal with fog like I used to. I remember some fog so bad, one could not see the stripe on the highway.

Since I feel like that, maybe one day, it will make sense again, why I am here.

Water Fail

The attempt to fix the water failed. A toilet line near the outside wall froze and burst in the 17 degree chill of the past 2 nights. The bitter cold is over with for now.

The water here is turned off. I can't take a shower and haven't bathed in 36 hours.

I am miserable. I have hated being dirty since I was a small child. This has never changed.

I hope to get this fixed soon.

What was this Polar Vortex? Why did it happen? What the fuck is going on?

There is no reason to be 17 degrees here in Tx, well at least, the part of it in which I live.

I don't even bother to check the weather recently. It just depresses me.

Brutal Cold

As I write this, it is 19 degrees F outside. That's -7 C to those who use the Celsius scale.

I have a heater so I am not bitching about being cold. Only my feet are. When I go to sleep and under my several blankets, they eventually warm up.

I have to forgo my shower today as a pipe has burst under the house. The water is shut off. This will become an issue if it is not fixed today.

I am upset by this cold. Why did this happen? Is it a sign of things to come? Extremes in both winter and summer? It gets hotter than fuck here in the summer. Hot is tolerable. Cold is never tolerable. Cold hurts and numbs. It saps energy and provokes involuntary things like gooseflesh and shivering.

Given that shivering and trembling are nothing new to me, I don't like it. I have anxiety trembling when I go somewhere.

I don't know. I would like to post an underwear picture, I found a pair that I love. Even if it was not intended for male wear. Speaking of male underwear, there is a center seam in most briefs that leaves an impressed area on my peena. I don't like that. These VS underwear don't have that.

I don't know about TOS issues with an underwear picture. This is not an exclusively adult blog, though I talk about adult things like sexuality, attraction, love, anxiety disorder, etc....

Given that I do not know who reads my blog, especially in Malaysia, I don't know. Who would really be interested in my life?

Why?

Rather Cold

Well, here it is, more bitching about the cold.

Tell me, what is wrong with this?




I mean, the 'normal' is over 15 degrees warmer than this for this date.

This is a snap of my WeatherBug, which I have used for years and keep a close eye on often.

The cold keeps the ice that fell frozen on the ground, slippery, dangerous. It has all but paralyzed North Texas. It's not that bad here, it is just fucking cold.

Cold hurts. My feet go numb, my prostate seems to lock up, making it hard to pee. Although that could be caused by the stress caused by this unnatural chill.

I am agoraphobic, I don't go outside unless I have to and that often isn't for more than a few moments. I can go to the store but only to familiar places.

I stay by the heater and dry my skin out. Err, itchy. And all parts of me get dry. I am not ashamed to use Dove soap. I use the sensitive kind as I am allergic to some soaps, particularly laundry detergents (Tide, especially)

I have warm clothes to wear. It is okay. Maintaining water drip here to protect the water pipes. I went to take my bath last night and the hot water was frozen up.

Standing naked in the tub, shivering in a cold bathroom, it was not fun. The water did flow after a few moments, after all, it is hot. It seems to get hotter when it is cold. I don't know what is up with that.

The last time it was this cold, I worked in the wm garden center. Going out to help process a Christmas tree, to which I am seriously allergic. Although, that was in the high 30s, not this low 20s bs. That is -4 C, you know.

It should warm enough tomorrow to melt this accursed ice and maybe no one will slip and bust their tail. That hurts, I know.

Hopefully this winter malaise is a fluke and the jet stream will shift and deflect it from the south. You ever notice, few weather people show the jet stream anymore. How do you think storms and fronts progress across the continent?

I would have been a weatherman had I not have the inability to do math. That has affected me a lot of times. It's sad.

If the ice is there in the morning, I will take a picture of it and post it here. I hope it is not.

I miss the sunshine.

TS Madi

This is Tropical Storm Madi, making its way up toward the Asian Subcontinent. That's Sri Lanka and India in the picture.


Just because Atlantic Hurricane Season ended on 30th of November, the weather never ends. If it did, we would probably suffer and die rather quickly.

I do not know much about this particular storm, it looks well set in and likely will be a typhoon or hurricane or cyclone, it's all the same thing.

I hope no one is hurt by it but knowing storms in that part of the world, it likely will be awful. I guess this makes up for a rather weak hurricane season domestically.

This is an RGB image from one of NOAA's satellites. I choose that wavelength because it gives a beauty to what is otherwise awful.

Imminent Cold Hell

It's coming. Well, it's 75 F outside at the moment, fine day tomorrow and then the bottom falls out. You can bet your sweet tail I am getting a heater when I go to the store later.

Suffer Cold

I could bitch about the cold in my blog like I have been doing but really, I suffer in it.

There is no heat in my room. It pretty much flows with the temperature, though thankfully, doesn't get lower than the low 50's.

It is 30 degrees outside as I write this, radiational cooling through the clear sky into outer space. I reckon the stars are beautiful but I am not going to freeze my tail off by going out there.

It should warm up in the next few days, until la arctica sends another frigid package our way, which is looking likely in the long range forecast.

What is causing this? Seasonal procession? The Sun? Gaseous emissions from industry, cars, cows and people? I do not know.

I am also feeling kinda lonely, the holidays do that, you know.

That is why I hate them so.

Accursed Cold

If you read this blog, and some do, I know, you know that I HATE cold weather. It hurts. My hands and feet go numb in the cold, ice cold.

An unnatural cold airmass seems to have parked itself over our beloved Tx. I mean, 35 in the daytime? I can't remember when this happened in the past few winters and the thing is, it is not even winter yet! Not for a little under a month!

Ice storm gripping West Tx as I write this. It will be here later. I don't go anywhere so it is a non-issue, well, travel wise. It will be so cold.

Haven't seen the Sun in a few days. Get more upset on a primal level the longer sunlight is not felt, even on a pale hide like mine.

I don't know when this unnatural coldness will end. Maybe it will be 80 again soon, I sincerely hope.

I remember when I was a kid, it was like 5 degrees outside. I haven't really seen that since. I hope I never do.

Crazy Weather

Snipped from the National Weather Service:

    Tonight Mostly clear, with a low around 32. South southeast wind 5 mph.

Thursday Increasing clouds, with a high near 63. South wind 5 to 10 mph.

     Friday Mostly sunny, with a high near 70. South wind 5 to 10 mph.

 Saturday Mostly sunny, with a high near 79. South southwest wind 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

  Sunday Mostly sunny, with a high near 85. South southwest wind 10 to 15 mph becoming west northwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph

 

 

It is really cold now, has been for two days, first freeze of our season. I hate cold weather, it hurts and I feel very uncomfortable.

 

Yet by Sunday, it will be quite all right. But big wind is not fun either.

 

How does this affect seasonal dependent things? Go from 80s to freezing for a couple of days, then back to 80s again?

 

What is going on? The weather is fucked up, you are willfully ignorant if you disagree. Whether it is Global Warming or Climate Change or the beginning of a new Ice Age, I cannot say. Something has changed, that is all I know.

 

Is it the Sun's fault? The arbiter of life on Earth and possibly other locations in the Solar System, the Sun is the be-all and end-all of life and vitality in our local biome.

 

Supposed to be highly active in its 11-year cycle, it hasn't been. What is its problem?

 

Too many questions. The weather is no joke.

Cold Returns

I have written about this before. It has not been a concern since the early part of May. It took a while this season to get to the 100 degree days typical of summers here.

Yet, they came and sweaty, sticky was the rule of the days. I can tolerate hot weather, I mean, every summer of my life, and I have been through 37 of them, has been roasty hot.

Cold is another matter. I get so cold. My feet go numb, as do my hands. I shiver, I wear heavy fabric sweatshirts and my Stars jersey. I dread going to the bathroom or taking a shower when it is cold, it gets COLD in here.

I am never barefooted if I can help it. Of course, I take my socks off when I bathe but usually the first thing I put on are a fresh pair of socks. I have to wear socks, I am uncomfortable without them.

Yes, I sleep with socks on, I have to. I can't stand my feet getting cold or tactile sensation as they are sensitive.

Cold is part of life. I mean, it could be worse. Think of the Neanderthal times, the Pleistocene, Ice Age. Cold was all the time there. I am glad that it isn't in our time.

Snow is rare here but it happens sometimes in the winter season, although a couple of years ago, it snowed in April here.

Also, it can ice up here pretty bad but that hasn't happened in the last few years. If this coming winter is a counterbalance to the bygone summer, it is going to be brutally cold.

I am not looking forward to it. My body just doesn't like cold.

Hurricane Humberto

This is Hurricane Humberto, way out in the eastern Atlantic.

It's a good swirl specimen. It is not forecasted to hit any land so it is not a worry. Just enjoy the picture

TS Erin in Google Earth

This is Tropical Storm Erin, which I first learned of from Erin Burnett Out Front on CNN last evening.

I looked it up in Google Earth and this is what I saw. We need to keep an eye on this one, it could be a monster if and when it nears the US coast.

If it is hard to see, the storm is near the Cape Verde Islands.

I will post a satellite picture of TS Erin once it becomes a symmetrical hurricane.


I always did like the name Erin. I knew a girl in school named Erin. I wonder what happened to her.