No, no, not the ones used for sewing or knitting.
Not even the ones that you get your annual flu shot with.
Our focus instead is on a California desert city of over 5,000 on the west bank of the Colorado River across the river from Arizona. It was named after a nearby group of jagged, pointed rocks on the Arizona side of the river.
Pure desert–hot and arid. Their average daily high in July is 109 and the average low 83. They once had a high of 125 and a low of 98.They only get an average of 5 inches of rain per year (Birmingham 54 inches) I have never been to Needles but I did photograph the instrument shelter once at Yuma, Ariz., also on the Lower Colorado. Similar climate.
But I became (attached) (addicted) to Needles weather way back when I was still in Martin-Stewart Elementary School west of Havana Junction and later at Akron High School. I was already an over-zealous weather geek because of my teacher, W.W Duncan was a big weather fan. At that time, I was a subscriber to the Daily Weather Map published by the USWB in Washington and sent by mail. It was a large map, loaded with information and often with educational weather stuff on the back, It would arrive at my house one or two days late but I could not wait. Needles was one of the stations always plotted on the map.
I wish I had saved some of those old maps. (I bet Bill Murray has one hidden deep in his weather files) (free lunch for you, Bill, if you can spare one–or I will trade you one of my older copies of Weatherwise Magazine)
Enough rambling. Back to Needles. Something happened there yesterday that fascinates me.(Not THAT unusual and you probably could care less. The high was 112 but the dew point at the time was 11. This gave a humidity of only 3%. So the heat index was 12 degrees cooler than the actual temperature! What a way to cool off!
Enough of this. Outta here. My apology for running my (mouth) (my little bitty fingers) so long.
