No play today…

…for a couple of reasons.

Actually yesterday—incredibly dreary all day. Contrast with today: brisk and blindingly bright.

This afternoon

Unofficially, it’s officially summer

30°C / 86°F @ 6:00 PM

BTW, my favorite little temperature trick (I didn’t invent it):

10°C = 50°F. For every 5°C change from 10°, add or subtract 9°F:

0°C = 32°F

5°C = 41°F

10°C = 50°F

15°C = 59°F

20°C = 68°F

25°C = 77°F

30°C = 86°F

35°C = 95°F

No, it’s not entirely simple, but it helps 😉

Yuck.

Can’t grade the tosca (“dirt” ) roads until they dry out. Meanwhile, a challenge to drive. Or walk. Unless you’re a dog.

Hail!

Not a common occurrence in coastal Uruguay! This was a few days ago. I abruptly stopped shooting in order to turn the glass table on its side, because….

Frosty!

Thermometer’s in our back yard, with lemon and orange trees, where it never freezes, but was 2°C this morning…pretty close, and same as two days in June. First frost in a month. Strange thing is the sky is not perfectly clear, as it always seems to be on mornings with frost. Some light, wispy clouds.

Hot.

Hot today. This in the shade in our back yard.

Very few people on the beach midday (considerably more at 6 PM when I drove by again). Except for the utter lack of waves, the river that doesn’t flow* looked like an ocean with that extremely rare blue hue today.

*for the locals, the estuary of the Rio de la Plata is a river. Don’t even try…it’s non-negotiable.

Beach on unusual Christmas eve

Christmas eve, southern hemisphere — usually a scorcher here. This year, not quite. By a long shot, in fact.

That day when…

…everything flash froze (-17.78°C), but just for a little bit.

Funny how I don’t remember it.

First frost (2022)

My wife asked me just last night when we get our first frost, and I said usually in June.

First frost of 2022: June 1.
Last year it was July 5.
In 2019 it was July 7.
2018: June 25.
2017: June 20.
2016: June 11.

You can almost feel the ice caps melting.