First stage smog alert?

5:50 am - Friday - August 9th - LPG&RVR - 57° F, humidity 45%, wind 1 mph out of the southeast.....smokey skies again today with a forecast high of 93° F.  On this date in 2020 TLE and I were camped on the shores of Banks Lake in Coulee City, WA.....

We had a great water view

 The pattern, as of late, has been for mostly clear, smokeless skies each morning, followed late morning by increasingly smokey skies for the rest of the day, and Thursday followed that pattern to a 'T'.  Unlike Wednesday, I raked no sand traps Thursday, and there were no goose/duck leavings requiring my attention at the #3 tee boxes.  I have begun to see geese flying south already.  I was back at the Clubhouse by 9 am.  I staged just 5 golf carts to begin the day, and by the end of the day we had rented 8.  As you can see below the air is still pretty clear just before 9 am......

 .....by 11 am it feels like I am in SoCal back in the late 50's during a first stage smog alert....I wish I had taken a picture to show the contrast in just two hours.

The high temp for the day was 94° F, and by Monday we'll be back into the 80's through the 23rd of August, and it appears we are done with temps in the 90's.  The overnight lows are getting back into the high 40's, so we're definitely on the downside of the hot part of summer....thankfully.

Between 10 am and 12 pm I spent time trimming around many of the grass areas I had mowed on Wednesday, as well as clearing the driving range of golf balls for its weekly mowing, and by noon time I was one dirty boy covered in dust, and falling ash.  I enjoyed my one hour in the cool confines of the Clubhouse.  My afternoon was spent making a couple of rounds of the golf course, irrigating the back in sites down the hill with pond water, and watering some dry grass around the park by hand.  I'm trying, successfully so far, to avoid any heavy manual labor in the afternoons when it is the hottest, and smokiest.

Buy 3 pm all but one of the 8 golf carts had been returned, and I was out of things to do so I headed home a half hour early to begin my recuperation from the heat.

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