This was for the first time on August 17, 2022. Three years later, August 20, 2025, the same. Except this year we also have infrastructure (this is like measles: you understand it, you suffer, disappear) that we have enough that I know the code for the brands of the streets: the gas is yellow, the electricity is red, the sewer is green, the water is blue. This time it is blue and we are waiting for the city’s DPW to get out of its cloth and turn off our water and dig the street just in time so that the afternoon arms hit.
I have nothing good to say about Baltimore in August. Ok, the farmers market is moving to the high season, Peaches & Tomatoes, also Okra, that is good. Digreion: I spent childhood in a small farm in the west medium by making internal proclamations and statements about freezing beans and appealing apple puree in a hot kitchen, as, if I ever found out here, I will never do this again, not me. Until decades later, I found the irrevocable fact that peaches and tomatoes have a season of a few weeks and it is not worth eating the rest of the year, so now I am freezing the peach sauce and tomato sauce and apologizing to the young sweat irritated ann. Anyway, I think that’s all for something good Baltimore in August.
The sun is out, the temperatures are in the 90s and Rocío points are in the 70s, Rocío points Being the temperature at which the water condenses outside the air, so it was 20 degrees ago, which means that the gills would have been the best evolutionary option here because the air is 52.76% of water. At these dew points, the air holds all the water that it can, so it cannot cool sweating; These dew pointsOur beloved weather gang of the capital says, they are not only oppressive but “very disgusting.” Digreion: I asked a neighbor who was a public health scientist who had just returned from Equatorial Africa how it was there and she said: “here as here.”
The nights can reach the upper 70, the Rocío points themselves; Another neighbor made a friend visit from California asked when the night would cool, and the neighbor simply snort. Digreion: Once I asked my gynecology when I was going to stop having little stifle and she also snorted. Anyway, those are the days and nights of Baltimore.
The afternoons, however, are scary, due to an alliance for the pilot between physics and chemistry. More heat means more action in the air and less density, which means that we all know, that hot air increases. More water, for chemical reasons that have to do with the molecular weight that I do not understand, it also means less density, also increasing. So, whoop, she goes, hot air, ascending uprising, playing the atmosphere and the more juice, the more convective instability, digression: I read that phrase first as “collective instability” that, yes, we are not us, what is measured as CAPEPotential energy available convective, operational words are “potential energy.” Because this humid hot air rises to the high atmosphere where it is cooler, then condenses and carries all that potential juicy energy in thunder that go crazy, larger every minute, flourishing over the city as an alien invasion.
And within those thunder, all molecules and things charge And the electric fields become more intense and the energy that has been potential now is only released, The download of the fields and become lightningI also do not understand in a way, but not scientists either. Lightning heats the air to 55,000 degrees until the air explodes thunder, and the closer the lightning for thunder, the more it seems personal. Digreion: A neighbor and I were on his porch, the neighbor holding his cat and a simultaneous light/thunder, crack BAMAnd the cat (also) exploded from my neighbor’s hands, and the rest of my life will remember that the cat, extended feet, hanging like a bat in the air over us.
Anyway, the afternoons in Baltimore: vigilant anxiety, Thunderheads become larger, storm possibilities rise and rise until finally and with some probability, all hell breaks, physics and chemistry without restrictions by human desires.
Windows Battle, the transformers explode, the trees crash, the power goes out, recently for days, and so does the air conditioning, and you feel there in the dark in a puddle of your own sweat if you can even sweat. The streets flood, and the climate gang of the capital repeatedly advises the return, do not drown; Flights are delayed, then canceled, then you cannot get home until the afternoon of next Thursday, when they are probable that they are thunderstorms, these meteorological patterns are stable, and the flights will be canceled again.
The best thing you can say about Baltimore is that it is not in the west, where the convection cells become supercells and their house flies to the next county. So I suppose that is something good from August in Baltimore: catastrophes here, as with so many more, are not sensational; Here we only have Armageddons without pretensions.
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Chuck patch Via Flickr Creative Commons: Baltimore Artscape, when it is so routinely hot and/or rainy, is called Artscape Weather.
Yianni MathioudakisAlso Flickr Creative Commons: Also Baltimore
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