Heat Wave!

Some selected predicted highs for Tuesday, 19 July 2006, from weather.com:

Boston: 97F (36.1C)
New York: 99F (37.2C)
Washington, DC: 96F (35.6C)
St. Louis: 96F (35.6C)
Atlanta: 97F (36.1C)
Houston: 95F (35C)

Relatively cool are:
Denver: 91F (32.8C)
Miami: 91F (32.8C)
Chicago: 83F (28.3C)
Los Angeles: 89F (31.7C)

And for Wednesday, 19 July 2006, from www.bbc.co.uk/weather:

London: 36C (96.8F)
Cambridge: 36C (96.8F)
Oxford: 35C (95F)
Birmingham: 35C (95F)
Cardiff: 35C (95F)
Liverpool: 34C (93.2F)
Edinburgh: 33C (91.4F)

(Yes, Miami will be cooler than London today and tomorrow. [91F/85F vs. 33C/36C])

Edit: And, just to make it clear: this heat isn't confined to the UK.

Paris: 37C (98.6F)
Amsterdam: 37C (98.6F)
Brussels: 38C (100.4F)
Berlin: 34C (93.2F)
Vienna: 34C (93.2F)

(Again, all from www.bbc.co.uk/weather.)

White Castle vs. Krystal.

I ate at the Krystal in Pigeon Forge, TN on Sunday, as I was slowly following traffic down US 441 towards Gatlinburg and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The Krystal (their signature burger) is a lot like a White Castle slider, except that the Krystal I got had a pickle slice in it. I'm not much of a connoisseur of these little burgers, so there may well be other differences. In fact, I'd be interested in finding out if anyone who is might be able to tell me what other differences there are between the two.

There doesn't seem to be much overlap in the restaurant areas, except in Kentucky and Tennessee, so maybe not that many people on my friends list have visited both.