It’s damn hot in so. cal. today. I went to the gym and about died after exiting and heading home because during the hour that I was in the gym it got to be about 500F in my car and thank the great maker I was wearing longish pants because I surely would have had third degree burns when my pale white skin hit the charcoal grey leather interior of my CR-V.

So now I’m home and resisted putting on the A/C until about 3 pm when it was over 90F in my living room. I’m trying to listen to some music on my laptop while I convert a bunch of tunes I stupidly ripped in Apple Lossless(read GIGANTIC) files into much smaller AAC files.

But about every 20 minutes for the past 3 hours, the weather-alert radio goes off, and I have to run to the other end of the house and turn it off. So far we’ve had:

• Flash flood watch for the mountains north of LA but not the Santa Monica mountains
• Flash flood warnings for the Palmdale/Lancaster area
• Extreme temperature warnings for the valleys and northern LA county with temps of 106F to 113F til Sunday night
• Hailstones 5 miles north of Lancaster and Palmdale
• Tornado Warning!!
• Severe Weather Statement
• Hazardous Weather Outlook that includes Long Beach
• Excessive Heat Warning

And it’s all in that creepy robot voice that NOAA uses to announce the alerts.

We bought the radio because it had a short-wave receiver, and leave the WX on just because, why not, there may be a tsunami one day, and although we are 7 miles from the water, it might be useful to know it’s a potentiality.  And it goes off a few times a year, so no big deal.  But holy cow, they must be having some crazy weather in northern LA county today.