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  2. golack

    Hmmmm...

    107 F, that could be anywhere in the US (or Japan?).
    Humidity, 18%....ok, not Japan or east of the Mississippi.

    I give up....only the cat knows....

    1. illilillili

      I'm voting for Yuma. Needles and Death Valley look too cold today. The sky is clear near Yuma. The skies aren't the darkest a few miles away, but they are dark...

    1. Steve_OH

      Kevin wanted to go somewhere for night photography, so it would have to be somewhere away from population. I'm guessing one of the lodgings in Furnace Creek in Death Valley, although it's been so long since I've been there I don't know what the hotel situation is like.

  6. KawSunflower

    OT:

    If you don't get emails from MoJo, check their site for Kevin's long version how the US got to the current state of our disunion.

    That's not a six-toed cat, is it?

      1. illilillili

        I saw pots, but they were round, not square. The photo of the thermometer suggests to me there might be a two story tan and red building in the background...

  8. rational thought

    Maybe I am overthinking it.

    But 18% humidity is really not that low anywhere except a humid client for an actual temperature of 107 degrees. Humidity normally goes down as temperature rises and I think maybe 18 humidity with 107 temperature might be a tad higher than expected in los angeles. So based on just that, could be anywhere in southwest, not an especially dry part. Does not narrow it down much.

    But the thermometer is in the sun, so maybe that means the actual temperature is well below that like around 90. Then 18 humidity is quite low.

    So I would guess someplace in the high desert like barstow where temperatures are not too bad but very dry.

    But not actually barstow because why would Kevin want to go there for vacation.

    For that matter, I would have given kevin more common sense than to want to vacation in death valley in july.

    I have no clue as to how first picture narrows it down.

    1. HokieAnnie

      I'm guessing you don't live on the East Coast hahaha. The lowest humidity in the past 31 days per my back yard weather station in the DC suburbs was 41%, the lowest in the past year was 19% on 3/15/2021 when we had a freak cold spell and a low of 20 degrees.

      1. rational thought

        No I don't but used to.

        That is why I said it would not narrow it down beyond somewhere in the southwest, if the actual temperature was 107. But if actual temp was only 90 and 107 only in the sun, then that should help a lot. Because 18% humidity with 90 degrees would be unusual.

        And I think Kevin would certainly trick us by leaving the thermometer in the sun. After all, to be interesting, a puzzle needs some little things like that. And the photo clearly shows it in the sun so not really a trick.

        I still am trying to find anything in the first picture. Should be something as kevin said pictures plural. The post and ground could be anywhere it seems. What is that by the cat's paw. Is that a particular type of bug? Can the cat's pupils dilation show time of day? Grasping at straws.

        And, if it turns out Steve was right and got exact place, he better explain how he done that.

        1. illilillili

          To be an interesting puzzle, Kevin has to report a reasonably accurate temperature, because that's nearly the only clue there is.

  10. illilillili

    Wow, if Needles, you've got a nice cold spell going there. Death Valley looks like it was actually cold (relatively speaking). Looks like the southwest is having a monsoon, hence humid. Baja seems like a possibility. Salt Lake City, Yellowstone, and northeastern california/northwestern nevada didn't quite make my cut.

    1. illilillili

      Hmmm... Looks like it might be around 10am or 11am from the angle of the sun. I don't think Kevin would trick us by leaving the thermometer sitting in the sun to create an abnormally high reading...

  12. sfbay1949

    This is definitely Yuma at about 10 am. Plenty hot enough, with the humidity about as low as it's going to be for the day The cat is a resident kitty from the hotel Kevin and his wife are staying. Tell me I'm wrong.

  16. D_Ohrk_E1

    Presumably, a smaller town in the southwestern US, given the temperature, the terra cotta, and the random friendly cat. Probably not going too far if you're just going out to get that Milky Way shot; just far enough to get away from city lights.

    Your favorite locations are all east of Central Valley -- Inyo to Sequoia -- but there are several small cities that could fit the bill.

    Presumably, you'd pick a city worth highlighting for some cultural significance.

    Tulare?

  17. dspcole

    Clearly that is Kaspar, the black cat from The Savoy in London . Looks a little bedraggled because of the heat. Remember, it’s not the heat, it’s the stupidity

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