Posted 7:06 PM by Floyd

More weather blogging: Saturday was the fourth consecutive day of 90-degree temperatures, so my wife and I planned a trip to the beach. We packed up a blanket and our Helly Kitty and Spongebob Squarepants towels(*), and filled a cooler with ice, water, bottled water and beer. Then we left our house, where the temperature was 92 degrees, for the coast.

By the time we reached the coast 15 miles away, the temperature had dropped to 68 or less and there was a great deal of fog. North looked hopeless; I assumed the "marine layer" of fog and clouds would stretch north to Half Moon Bay and beyond. We turned south and hoped for the fog to break. It did, kind of, about 20 miles south; we found a stretch of coast that was clear, though the temperature was only 66 and the cloud layer loomed a half mile away. We got out, and found there was a lot of wind. When sweltering in heat you may think that nothing is better than a cool breezy environment. Maybe that's true, for five minutes.

It's possible that the beaches south of Santa Cruz were clear. But we didn't have time to go that far. So we went back to our house, to sweat some more.

* Sherry cried for fifteen minutes when I told her she had to use the Spongebob towel.