Just said on Channel 13 Houston that the heat index is 110 in the shade and 125 in the sun! Somebody out there from Arizona or somewhere please tell me it's cool here! The grass is crunchy due to lack of rain.

Did I mention the low humidity? 49%

beckysthisnthat wrote (View Post): › Just said on Channel 13 Houston that the heat index is 110 in the shade and 125 in the sun! Somebody out there from Arizona or somewhere please tell me it's cool here! The grass is crunchy due to lack of rain.

Here in New York state, it's been unusually cool throughout June, and now so far for July. Today we hit 69 degrees.

No global warming here.

I hope that your situation improves soon... man, that's hot!

We have had rain for 31 of the last 33 days. The entire month of June we had 1 1/2 days of sun. It has been in the high 50s to mid 60s. The farmers crops are in a state of crisis. No hay has been cut this year. Strawberries are rotting. The fields are so wet farmers cannot drive their tractors out to cultivate or spray for fungus. Remember the Irish potato famine? All started from a late blight (fungus).

Global warming does not mean things will get warmer and sunnier evenly across the planet.

The ice at both north and south poles is melting at an unprecedented rate. Where do you think the water will go?

You think the price of food is high now? Wait until this fall.

Becky, I feel for you. You are at the opposite side of this. It is no more fun burning in the sun then drowning in the gloom.

Becky,

Same here in south Georgia. I have a greenhouse business, can you say hotter than hell, That me.

Terry

Terry,

Is it dry in Georgia?

I am ready to get in the car and drive until I see the sun.

Gee, I wonder when the next ice age will hit??

I know what you are talking about Becky. I live up by lake Livingston 60 miles from Houston. 101 today.

I plan to barbecue some ribs tomorrow. I'll just lay them out in the sun for a couple of hrs and they will be done. Just gotta find some liquid smoke. LOL.

I was up in your neck of the woods the last 3 weekends picking blueberries in Warren. It was 105 in the shade on the thermometer. We couldn't pick past about 10 AM because of the heat, so spent most of the time in the pool! LOL Let me know if you want to know where the sweetest, biggest bluberries are up there. Open Memoral Day until the 4th of the July.

I feel for ya in the subtropical South... the humidity, the rain, the hurricanes, the tornadoes... and the mosquitos. GAWD!! I'm homesick!!!

Now I live at the edge of Death Valley. Its only 102. with variable winds... feel like 97. But the swamp coolers are havng trouble keeping up with it. It rained for the first time earlier this week... all 2 dz drops. most of the rain evaporates before it hits the ground. Rain here is measured in 10th of an inch per annum. Here in the Indian Wells Valley of the upper Mojave... our rainy season is from October to March... where we might get 3 inches of rain in those 6 months. and that MIGHT! There are literally 150 shades of brown. A good summer rain will germinate the wild flowers for the spring. and No rain... means more of the same. HOT and Dry.

We had a short spell of that hot 'stuff' north of you all in TX, but a cool front moved in with a shower 3-4 days ago and it's been better - much better...

I'll try to get our current weather pushed down to ya - we had a bit of rain today and it's 70s or so right now...

One good thing about this summer, Mo, is NO mosquitos...no rain!

beckysthisnthat wrote (View Post): › One good thing about this summer, Mo, is NO mosquitos...no rain!

ok, ok... if you miss those little buggers so much, I will send you a boxful! We've had so much rain, the grass in my yard (did I say grass??) is now slippery muck... And just when you think that its over... it begins to pour again... I can't even say we've had any days of sun in th entire month of June. We may have, but the rain just drowned out any memory of it... So where would you like me to ship them to?? We have plenty.... and I can add a few fleas as a bonus if you'd like!

Fleas don't like the desert. Animals rarely get fleas here. We also don't have termites. We didn't have any mosquitos either till the city folk moved here and decided they needed grass and a pool. putting the in lawns and the watering thereof... raised the humidity quite a bit. Most of the people here have swamp coolers but they had not been a problem with mosquitos till the pools and lawns became common.

the other day it was 16% humidity... for those of you in the southern swamp lands and bayous... that ain't much. but here????

Oh yeah, it does snow here occasionally, but rarely freezes.