{"id":1166,"date":"2007-08-11T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-11T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2007-08-11T16:42:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-11T16:42:00","slug":"will-the-heat-ever-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/11\/will-the-heat-ever-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the heat ever end?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weather.com\/outlook\/travel\/businesstraveler\/monthly\/38103\">The Weather Channel&#8217;s monthly weather forecast for Memphis<\/a>.  If you thought this week was bad, look what we&#8217;ve got coming up next week.  Looks like MLGW will be making a fortune as air conditioners run nonstop for at least 10 more days.  Although, we have Monday, August 20 to look forward to, when TWC predicts a high of &#8220;only&#8221; 96 and a 30% chance of rain.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we should convert to the metric system for some psychological relief.  Since I have friends in Romania, I sometimes read their online newspapers.  During a heat wave last month, Bucharest had a day with a high of 41C.  &#8220;That doesn&#8217;t sound so bad,&#8221; I thought, until I did the math and realized that 41C = 106F.<\/p>\n<p>I also checked the weather for San Diego, where I lived for six months in 2000.  The hottest day of the next ten out there will be this coming Monday, when San Diegans will have to endure a high of 80 and a low of 70.  As you can see, all over the U.S. we&#8217;re suffering from the heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a look at The Weather Channel&#8217;s monthly weather forecast for Memphis. If you thought this week was bad, look what we&#8217;ve got coming up next week. Looks like MLGW will be making a fortune as air conditioners run nonstop for at least 10 more days. Although, we have Monday, August 20 to look forward &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/11\/will-the-heat-ever-end\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Will the heat ever end?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->