It’s so cold in MN, last night was the latest frost advisory on record and the lakes are so cold. I lucked out getting a full suit this year as this weekends swim would not be fun for me. We’re close to the coldest June on record and the nearest cold summer was back in 91. The doomsdayers say we should be warming but the opposite seems to be the norm. For an non selfish reason we need some heat is that the crops don’t grow well in the cold and as corn should be waste, it’s less than knee high. Sure hate when swimming gives you a misty freeze headache.
We’ve got it in Fairbanks, Alaska! Highs in the 80s, lows in the 60s for the last week, and the same forecast for the next week. Second warmest June ever. Wonderful weather, unfortunately it’s also very, very dry, so lightening strikes are starting wild fires. 5-6 significant fires within 200 miles covering hundreds of thousands of acres, and more expected.
I feel your freezer burn … Las Vegas valley topped out at 105 yesterday, and the park service folks at Lake Mead said it hit 115 in places. Living in the desert … it’s a dry heat … so it’s okay!
unless your from the southwest deserts (CA, AZ, NM, west TX) you don’t have heat. You may have the oven turned up to warm but your bake button doesn’t work. 109 where I was working this afternoon. Thats bake, 93 is just warm, 80 is sweater weather (I’m not kidding).
Misty freeze headache? What’s that? I’m in California’s agbelt, the Central Valley between Sacramento and Los Angeles, and this was a desert before all the farmers irrigated. We’re having unseasonably cool weather also as it’s only 93 right now and tomorrow’s forecasted high is only 94. This late in June we’re usually in triple digits (one summer we had 38 consecutive days over 100). Personally I love the heat (provided the air quality cooperates) as it makes racing on the coast San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, San Diego, etc. a whole lot easier.
Speaking of crops: What’s the difference between a puppy and a farmer? Puppies quit whining when they grow up!
Relax if there’s any farmers out there…one of my training partners is a farmer and he told me that one. We live in an area where ag is a 7 BILLION dollar industry!
There are triathletes in FAIRBANKS!??–Wow. Are there any triathlons in Fairbanks? Any in Anchorage? Any triathlons anywhere else in the state?
Where do you swim in Fairbanks? You got any decent pools? I spend some time in Anchorage on a regular basis, but the climate there is laughingly mild compared to what I have heard Fairbanks is like in the winter.
Greg, there are triathletes in Fairbanks, but no igloos. I think 6 of us went and finished IM Wisconsin last year, one qualifier for Kona (not me!). We have ONE triathlon these days, the Sourdough HIM on 17 July. There are a handful of triathlons in and around Anchorage. Swimming is quite popular and there are at least 6 SC pools in the area. We also have a very active running club and cycle club with races or training runs/rides year-round.
Fairbanks and interior Alaska are a place of extremes. Lots of daylight (sun is up about 21 hours) and warmth (85F today) this time of year. Many folks live for winter too, however there’s lots of darkness (sun is down 21 hours–but “daylight” is maybe 6 hours) and cold, with temps of -30F not unusual and as low as -50 or -60 for short stretches.
Check the speciality running stores in Anchorage for a list of events.
Hey, good to hear that there are triathletes in Alaska. We are heading there for vacation in a couple of weeks so maybe I can talk my wife into a brick workout at one of the pools!
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Cold in MIchigan too. Weather sucks.
We’ve got the heat. Daytimes are 30C+ (86F) and nights are 24C (75F) and humid as well.
Did a 1 hour ride on my CT yesterday in the shade and it took 1 hour and 2 showers before I could stop sweating enough to get dressed. So training for me is in the evenings only otherwise I would be part of the 5am crowd.
dt. (Tokyo)
Kona weather Saturday 6/26/04
Sunny morning, even a little pink even with suncreen while out exercising, about 82 degrees F. Perfect.
Afternoon, usual mauka (mountain) rain, coastlike looks cloudy but rain doesn’t go that far down today. Tomato plants and pasture grass are thriving with the daily rains.
Another grrrrrrreat day in paradise. Sorry 
Does the Sourdough have a web site? How many people enter on average? HIM in Alaska, now that could be cool. Oh yeah, what about the mosquitos?
Did a small sprint yesterday, and afterwards, I got talking with a rackmate who had a Riyadh Triathlon towel down on the pavement. He said he totally baked on the run even though it was only in the low 80s out there, and he’d been in Saudi in 120+degree weather until pretty recently. Difference- you had 2-3% humidity over there, and here, the dew point is 75-78F from now until the end of September.
It is a bit warmer than usual so far this year, but not exceptionally so. I just feel glad the daily thunderstorms haven’t cut into my training as much this year as they did last year.
jill
you’d be surprised at how humid it is in the area I live. It’s mostly irrigated farmland. Phx has humidity levels at 10-20%, even high now that the monsoonal flow is starting. I understand the humidity/heat, I lived in albany Ga for a bit and spent many years in NC.
I lived in the Chicago burbs for eight years. You couldn’t pay me enough to go back.
Out here in Walnut Creek, CA (45 minutes from downtown SF) it’s in the low 80s today and will cool off nicely by bedtime (with low humidity). It will get a bit hotter as the summer rolls on, but will never be unbearable, and humidity will be low.
I did my first tri of the year in March, and it was 85º in San Jose for that race. I got a bit sunburned. My last race of the year will be in Santa Cruz at the end of September, and it’s always beautiful weather for that race as well. When I lived in Chicagoland, we had nine months of frozen winter, three days of spring 12 weeks of humidity in the 80%+ range, and winter would roll back in on Labor Day. Why does anyone live there?
Here in NoCal, it won’t rain (measurably) between May 1 and October 15. Why would anyone live anywhere else?
Here in West Palm Beach it’s 92 with a heat index 103. “It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.” So hot when I get in my car, my glasses fog up.
Now all you snowbies can take heart that I am on my trainer! Ah, the a/c is nice.