johanson
Jan 29, 2003, 6:49 PM
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Pedro as I write this from the hills overlooking Ajijic, it is 8PM here and the temp is 18 C, Oh, by the way I am listening to AM 630 talk radio CHED, It's 1 to 0 the Oilers lead. For those of you not familiar with the CHED, it's towers are located some 200 miles, West Northwest of Viking, on the way to Ft. St John. (Yes, I've had a beer Pedro.) I'm going back to my favorite station CIOC, the Ocean, Victoria. The only station that Star Choice doesn't give me is my favorite classical music station KING FM from Seattle, but I can get that via the internet. It even gives me a PBS radio feed from Spokane, where my mom was born.
Each morning a group of us meets at the local restaurant Salvador's and we discuss such mundane topics as the weather. Yep I have a rain gauge and a Radio Shack indoor-outdoor electronic thermometer. The coldest it's gotten this winter outside my house was about 6. Usually it never gets lower than about ten. One January morning several years ago it reached 2 (36) and we actually saw a little snow. At that temperature it didn't stick. But it was real snow. Right now it only reaches about 15 to 16. Other guys record temperatures close to mine, usually a little bit colder. They all live lower and closer to the lake. We usually have about eight at this round table, about 4 from Canada and 4 from the US during the winter months. In the summer there are fewer from the North and more from areas like Texas and Florida
Yes the temperature in Guadalajara always seems warmer in the daytime and colder at night. I'm told that is for two reasons, 1. Lake Chapala acts as a heat sink and 2 Asphalt and concrete react differently to the hot and cold than does nature. But I am no expert about the weather.
I'm told that Guadalajara is perhaps 5 degrees C colder each night than lakeside. The last time I drove North to the airport, Dec 21st, the closer we got to the airport the colder it got. The thermometer in the car I was riding in said about 50 F when we left the lake and was about 43 F at the airport. By the time I hit LA it was 56 F and when we landed in Richmond it was 8 C. I don't mean to bounce around talking C and then F, but at our age we were exposed to both.
All I can say is thank god for Star Choice. With a 90 cm dish, I can listen to the same radio stations I did and do when I return to the cottage each summer. Oh and of course I can watch the same TV stations from Seattle, Vancouver and Victoria, I watched while growing up.
I hope you don't mind my silliness Pedro, but some people take these posting so seriously. I wonder if I will be harassed for my comments. Only time will tell.
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