sushi!

[redbird]

cattitude and I just had sushi for the first time in 16 months, having decided that (at least this week) in this part of Massachusetts, I was willing to eat indoors.

It wasn't astounding sushi, but it was sushi, and reasonably good, and hey, raw fish! nori! And then we went to the farmers market, so I have raspberries and peaches and lettuce and cherry tomatoes, and bread and local honey. (Genki-ya, in Davis Square.)

Now I am home, and glad to be in an air conditioned room. (Weather Underground says the air quality here is "155: unhealthy," but the weather app on my iPhone says "70: moderate." I wore a mask indoors and part of the time I was outdoors, and the air seemed OK.)

Tomorrow will be a day to stay close to home and not over-exert myself, because I am trying to be cautious after being sick for several weeks, including a relapse or two.

Comments

[cmcmck]

We went to a pub restaurant this evening for the first time in eighteen months.

[otter]

Proper sushi is so good! We get the grocerystore sushi now and then. It's not perfect, but it's good enough

[ranunculus]

I agree, good sushi is sublime. I have only had a couple of grocery store trays in almost 2 years now. Sigh.

[tarasacon]

I did grocery store sushi a couple weeks ago, out of desperation after no sushi in almost 2 years. Unfortunately store sushi here is Not Good. (Edible, but nowhere near tasty.) Next time I’ll just spend the $ on smoked salmon or lox. The grocery store has decent options for those.

[pameladean]

Yay sushi! I haven't been inside a restaurant yet because I am very twitchy, but David and I got takeout sushi a few months ago to celebrate, belatedly, our 38th wedding anniversary. There is really nothing like sushi, whether spectacular or just routine.

With regard to the air quality reports of the various weather outfits, my experience in Minnesota is that they don't update very regularly or consistently. I'm not sure what Massachusetts might have, but I use the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's Air Quality site, and they are much more up to date and have their own forecast, intertwined of course with the weather forecast, but focussed on what pollutants are coming and going.

P.

[joseph_teller]

Generally the majority of the air censors in MA are in the urban areas... just like most of the weather tracking devices.

Depending on the source that your weather bug uses for data it may be more generalized or grab from a singular point (75% of most apps grab their weather data from Logan Airport).

[redbird]

The weather bug on my phone credits something called Breezenet, but I haven't checked what that is. Weather Underground has a network of personal weather stations, with quite a few stations around here (Belmont), so I suspect that the WU value is closer to accurate for me.

[pameladean]

It links to the MPCA site; I think the updating function is just broken or buggy. Their pollen count is also generally wrong, though if you click through to pollen.com you can get a more up-to-date number.

Minnesota has a bunch of air sensors in Native American nations, so there's a good spread, but they are certainly a lot more concentrated in cities. A lot of weather apps do default to the Twin Cities airport, but the one I'm using seems not to.

P.

[tarasacon]

I’m not comfortable eating inside a restaurant yet, either, especially with the low vaccination rates here.

[minoanmiss]

yay sushi!

[joseph_teller]

Weather Underground is more accurate than most of the other systems, as it uses a localized grid of weather stations situated on various rooftops in the area rather than generalized data. I find them a lot more accurate than what you get from the tv/radio sources and general bugs like Google or Microsoft use, as those mostly use Logan Airport for info, which can differ quite a bit from the rest of us.

fitting things together

[redbird]

In New York City, the radio weather forecasts for much of the year ended with "cooler near the shore." The NYC official weather station is, still, in Manhattan. The same "cooler near the shore" weather/climate pattern applies in the Boston area, except that the official station is "near the shore," and they don't add "cooler away from the shore" to the forecasts. I'd noticed that whatever the forecast, the actual high is usually a few degrees warmer in the northwest suburbs, and sometimes remember to take that into account when planning things, but I hadn't thought through that maybe the official station is the outlier.

Weather Underground will give me current readings for my choice of nearby personal weather stations, but they aren't generating dozens of similarly local forecasts for the Boston area based on the records at those stations. That would take a lot of processing power, but a more general note saying something like "this forecast is for Logan, it's usually X degrees hotter in Somerville in July" would be nice.