Weather where you are?

The weather here in Panama City is miserable, it’s even worse coming here from the beautiful fall days in Argentina. Hot humid days and nights with only light breezes to stir the air broken only by short hard showers. We can’t wait to get to Ireland in a couple of weeks for some honest Irish rain!
 
The only time I've been to Panama City was in 1957. I also remember the weather as being quite hot and humid. I don't remember it raining much though, but I was only 6 years old at the time.

I was with my parents and brother travelling to UK on a ship (as you did back in those days). Going through the Panama Canal was an experience I'll never forget.

When I think back on it, it was a whole different era when international travel was routinely done by ship. It took about a month to get to UK by passenger ship. I don't think there were many international commercial passenger flights crossing the Pacific Ocean in those days. Most commercial aircraft still had piston engines with propellors. Actually, the first leg of our journey was an overnight international flight from Sydney to Auckland in a Douglas DC-6. It had 4 very noisy piston engines. Not a whole lot different from a WW2 bomber, except a bit more luxurious.
 
Paul LeClair said:

fire season again in western Canada. So much smoke in Calgary today that can barely see to the other side of the road. Very unpleasant to breathe.
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I'm up in Foreskin John right now (Fort St. John for the delicate folk). It's not good here and this is one of the least hard hit areas. Alberta and Saskatchewan have major troubles!

Some photos from across the region.

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As a former Californian, my worst season was spring. Looking at all the green flowering hills and lush vegetation filled me with dread, knowing that every day the rain fell would increase the fuel supply for the fire season to come.
 
T.C said:
Bit chilly up here.
Was -16 last night.
But the view……..

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Great!
I recently came home after a month of climbing up and down mountains. As usual, I trained and slept outside in -12 to -17 + chill for a while in preparation. No bears on the way up or down this time, though. Last time my three usual suspects in crime for mountaineering friends and I, walked on a narrow ledge around a cliff corner on the way up, and way above the tree line, and there, 6 meters in front of us, was a nice big brown bear. Well, not nice actually, and they seem to like anti-bear spray, some even roll themselves in it, and we silently slowly backed off for a while, and let it wander off. Everyone's happy.
it's very rare in my 29 years up and down rocks, that I've been so close.
Kind regards,
Jacques
 
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