The background. In two postings on this blog.
— on 8/9/23, in “The states of matter: coconut X”: the spreadable coconut fat (a semi-solid cream I use for daily treatment of my feet, legs, hands, and arms) melts (at around 77F) to to a free-flowing liquid; when cooled in the refrigerator, it’s transformed into a firm solid that you have to deal with in hard chunks.
— on 3/20/26, in “Coconut X revisited”:
Today is March 20th, the first day of spring — the vernal equinox — here in the northern hemisphere. But also another day of record-breaking heat in the southern SF bay, set to soar once again to over 90F. When I went to oil my legs and feet at 6:30 am, it had already melted to a messy liquid.
And now, on 4/12/26. Cold and wet, predicted high only 60F. During the night, there are thunderstorms, with lighting strikes, all over the east Bay, but not (so far as I can tell) near me.
I awake in considerable joint pain, a concomitant of plunging barometric pressure; it feels like my legs are swelling painfully, but then in the morning it turns out they’re in excellent shape (a recent wonderful development: worrying edema and leg sores have totally vanished). But the coconut ointment is rock hard, barely spreadable; the house is most unpleasantly cold.
The coconut oil tells the temperature.
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