If you go by the motto of the Oregon Global Warming Commission, “Keep Oregon Cool,” you might say the commission has already failed, at least this week.
One hears a lot about this heat wave coming our way. The forecasters are warning of triple-digit temperatures. The warnings don’t help unless you can get away.
After a bike ride when the temperature is in the 90s, I am grateful for any oasis that is crisp, clean and above all cool. So about an hour before sunset on Thursday, I landed at Taco Bell on Southwest Pacific. The crowd was gone. Except for a staff member wiping tables, I had the cool air in the seating […]
Comely as they are, the TV weather girls I sometimes watch seem to believe their viewers are too dumb to survive a heat wave on their own. So they advise us to stay out of the sun, drink plenty of water and wear light-colored, loose-fitting outfits. Thus encouraged, I make so bold as to offer advice of my […]
Riding in a heat wave: Saved by big trees
Everybody knows that when it’s hot, it’s hotter in the sun than in the shade. And when you’re riding a bike on city streets during a heat wave, streets with huge trees are more pleasant to ride than those without.
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