Marilyn's photos - June 25 2025 - Is this heart attack season?

 

That's my question from the numerous headlines offering heart attack symptom advice.  Myheart.net says "No" - heart attack season is winter. They are least likely to occur in summer. And the most likely time of winter is over the Christmas and new years period.   And the day of the week?  Monday.  That's the case for various heart diseases and problems.  In the Middle East, it is Fridays and in Japan it is the weekend.  And the most likely time of day?  It is the mornings, and within the first few hours of waking.   So the worst scenario would be "a winter Monday morning in the setting of a natural disaster acting as a trigger" So we're home-free, aren't we?  It seems not so - the heat dome is dissipating slowly.  While the temperatures are going into the high 20s today, they will feel like the mid-30s.   And heat is a contributor to heart attacks. One article says that "experiments have discovered that for every increase in temperature of 1°C (1.8°F), the chances of a heart attack raise by about 2-4%. Every day, throughout lengthy heat waves, this danger adds up..."   There aren't that many terms related to heat in the weather dictionary - heat index, humid, heat wave, heat stress, and heat dome. There is a wet-bulb temperature - the combination of heat, humidity, wind strength, sunlight angle and cloudiness. To quantify this, scientists turn to the “wet-bulb temperature,” which is based on a reading taken using a thermometer wrapped in a damp cloth. So much for summer heart attacks.  What was the winning bid for the piano on which Freddie Mercury composed Bohemian Rhapsody?  Sotheby's auction says it was £1.74m.  That was in 2023.

Here's my summertime heat dome abstract.

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June 25 2021 - Heat Dome Inflation

 

Today's weather expression comes to us from the Weather Network.  They brought polar vortex into common usage.  Now it is heat dome.  They tell us that a heat dome usually camps in the Four Corners section of the southwestern United States. The news is that it will bubble up directly over British Columbia by Saturday -- extending into the northern territories and Alberta. "This feature will be particularly perilous because it's so rare in this part of the world. Sixty per cent of British Columbians do not own an air conditioner in their households.  A heat dome is colloquially known as an intense high-pressure system that features descending air that compresses and warms to record levels at the surface. These features tend to be cloudless, as well; this setup is an excellent inhibitor for vertical motion that produces clouds in the atmosphere. Heat domes often sniff out regions in drought, and as the old saying goes, drought breeds drought. Then you get a feedback effect. The warm air gets trapped in the lower elevations, and temperatures can only fall into the 20s at night. The following days can be incrementally toastier." We think of domes as Architecture. Domes created by humans have been around for a long time. The dome that comes to mind for most people is the Taj Mahal.  The tallest is St. Peter's Basilica at 136.5 meters or 448 feet. The world's largest  is the Pantheon - is unreinforced concrete - built almost 2,000 years ago.  The Wikipedia entry is packed with domes in every continent and there is a little thumb nail of each of them.  Our own SkyDome (Rogers Centre) is small in comparison to these world giants.  The tradition of domes includes mortuaries, celestial/religious, throne halls, and modern legislatures.   What does the dome traditionally represent?  Absolute power.   Do you know why, all around the world, parliaments' roof are built as a dome? Have you ever seen a circus with a flat roof?   Another Hearts Collage today. This one based on the curved palm leaf image, so I guess it could be called "Palms of Heart"

Heat Wave - Cooling Thoughts

Heat warning ahead today.  The weather says another day of feeling like 40.  The sun is an orange glow in the sky - it is perfect light for picture-taking. Today's image may have a cooling effect.  This is an amazing frost pattern in the conservatory greenhouse in January 2015.