BURNINGBIRD
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July 10, 2002
EnvironmentCooler Breezes

A thunderstorm rolled through today, breaking the heat spell. The temperature should be in the 80's for the next couple of days, though dewpoints are high.

Before moving to St. Louis, I talked about humidity. Now I talk about dewpoints; I am becoming one with the area. I loved what the weather person said yesterday in regards to the high dewpoint, "Today's a very juicy day!"

Speaking of weather, are you curious about how the Heat Index (HI) is calculated? Of course you are. Following is the simple formula:

    1) Heat index(HI), or apparent temperature(AI)= -42.379 + 2.04901523(Tf) + 10.14333127(RH) - 0.22475541(Tf)(RH) - 6.83783x10**(-3)*(Tf**(2)) - 5.481717x10**(-2)*(RH**(2)) + 1.22874x10**(-3)*(Tf**(2))*(RH) + 8.5282x10**(-4)*(Tf)*(RH**(2)) - 1.99x10**(-6)*(Tf**(2))*(RH**(2))

Piece of cake, do it in my head.

I finished closing up my California bank account and transferring the funds into the St. Louis account. The people in St. Louis are so nice! The teller at my new bank, Courtney, spent an extraordinary amount of time today helping me get what was a mess - of my own making - cleaned up. What blew me away is that she knew every single person who came in while I was there - by name.

I am now "Miss Powers", so show a little respect you dweebs.

Tomorrow promises more thunderstorms and cooler weather. If the dewpoint drops a bit, I found a nice little trail close to home I want to try. As a break from writing and ThreadNeedle and other coding. Of course.



Posted by Bb at July 10, 2002 09:46 PM




Comments

Miss Powers

I did it in my head too and the end result was a big zero [probably matching my bank account]

Posted by: Allan Moult on July 10, 2002 11:06 PM

Moving from L.A. > Denver > St. Louis has been eye opening for me as well. People really ARE nicer here. Have you also noticed that there isn't as much pressure to hurry through lines? People will take time and actually talk to you. My wife was very entertained when we first moved here, because I was really thrown by the cashier asking us about our day and taking a real interest. Since my wife grew up here, I asked her after we left "Did you know her?" She just laughed at me. She laughs at me a lot, now that I think of it...

Posted by: rev on July 11, 2002 08:33 AM


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