Tuesday 8 October 2024

Last hot day of the year?

Some time after lunch, I noticed that it was hotter outside than indoors. I opened all the windows and the front door, and as soon as I could close the laptop, I was off for an autumnal walk to glory in the warmth. Dressed in a shirt with a light jacket, I was soon overheated, so the jacket was removed and stowed in the rucksack. Thermometer in my phone said 23°C. Every hour of heat stores in the walls and postpones the day when I have to start heating the house.

Below: gone 4pm and setting off; just across the road from my place – canonical Jakubowizna. Familiar landscapes for my soul.

Below: traditional wooden house along ulica Główna (Main Street), Chynów.

Below: junction of ul. Szkolna ('School Street') and ul. Sportowa ('Sporty Street'), Chynów. The white barriers in the centre of the photo are the bridge over the river Czarna.

Below: house at the edge of the forest, Chynów.

Below: from the footbridge over the DK50, the view looking northwest towards Wola Pieczyska. Note the way the setting sun lights up the electrical wires, looking like the autumnal spiders webs that are still not around in any numbers.

Below: for the first time this autumn, the sun is setting before six pm. It's setting over Lasopole; photo taken from the road bridge over the DK50 between Sułkowice and Chynów. 


UPDATE: 10 October. After a rainy Wednesday (9 October), today was hotter still, with the thermometer reading 23.7°C at 14:15. Strictly one-layer weather on my walk today. For mid-October – lovely!

This time six years ago:
Warszawa Zachodnia Peron 8 to reopen
[Note: the station has since been renamed W-wa Zachodnia Peron 9]

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