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| 05/18/2008: "Excessive UV radiation"
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Good grief: I've spent the last few months complaining about the clammy-gray chilly drizzle here in the verdant Pacific Northwest, and all of a sudden we're hit by an attack of July/August weather-- in mid-May! High temps for the last three days have been close to 40 degrees fahrenheit above the seasonal average, and it's just no fun when the transition is that abrupt.
On the other hand, it's quite a luxury to be able to complain about such trivial meteorological phenomena. After all, we're due for an earthquake in the Cascade Subduction Zone that could hit 9 on the Richter scale sometime in the next hundred or three years, but I hope to (barely) predecease that event. Perhaps you should reserve your sympathy for certain other areas of the world with much worse immediate problems.
For my part, self-indulgently "suffering" from an overdose of heat and UV inflicted by various yard and garden activities will suffice for now. Send money if you can spare it-- have you seen the recent price stickers on SPF 40 sunscreen? Plus, the surge in energy expenses coupled with an astronomical rise in hop prices have combined to drive the cost of well-chilled microbrews through the bloody roof! --r.
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