Huh. I just checked weather reports for Glasgow to see what to pack. The BBC's five-day forecast shows the temperature getting up to 21°C by this coming Saturday (which Google informs non-metric me is almost 70°F).<\/p>\n
But weather.com's ten-day forecast says the highest highs in the next ten days will only reach 64°F, and that mostly the highs will be around 60°F. With lows as low as 48°F.<\/p>\n
So weather.com is telling me to pack cold-weather gear (what can I say? I'm a native Californian. I start shivering when the temperature drops below about 65°F), while the BBC is suggesting that it'll be significantly warmer than that. I'm not sure who to believe.<\/p>\n
Either way, looks like rain.<\/p>\n
I had a momentary pause to think, wait, which hemisphere is Scotland in, anyway? Isn't it summer there? And then I remembered that Glasgow is further north than Edmonton. Roughly level with parts of Newfoundland, with Denmark, with Latvia. Much further north than I ever think it is. Good old Gulf Stream<\/a>: \"The average annual temperature of north-west Europe is about 9C above the average for our latitude.\"<\/p>\n . . . Unrelated thought: I've got a story I keep meaning to mail to Interzone<\/cite>. (I don't want to email this particular story for various reasons.) Just occurred to me that it might be simpler to mail it from the UK while I'm there. But I have no idea how to go about that; I don't even know what size envelopes they use over there (and I've printed the story on US-sized paper). And I would have to provide a return envelope with postage to the US anyway (or just make it a disposable MS). Might be simpler to mail from the US after all. Hmm. Further thought needed. Perhaps I'll impose on some British writer for mailing tips once I get there.<\/p>\n Right. I'm meant to be packing. (Note clever attempt to slip into UK phrasings ahead of the convention.) Off with me, then.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Huh. I just checked weather reports for Glasgow to see what to pack. The BBC’s five-day forecast shows the temperature…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}