Baby - it's hot outside

turbo

Just finished checking out PC, TV, Dish system, stereo... Lost all power to the West half of the house due to a direct lightning strike last night. Surge suppressors and breakers did their job, though I was fooled by a breaker that was tripped and didn't visibly go to the Off position. No power, so no PF last night or this morning until I got past that tricky breaker. No AC in this weather sucks.

Evo

I was wondering where you were last night. Is everthing back, or do you have damage?

turbo

I think everything is OK. I may have to get some help and take down that TV mast. Broadcast TV is very poor here, anyway though it's nice to have an option when Dish goes out.

dlgoff

What? You don't like?

turbo

Not when the base of that mast is about 8-10' from where I'm sitting, although on the outside of the wall.

turbo

We had some destructive T-storms last night in central and mid-coast Maine. Luckily, they passed around us. Ironically, one place that was hit pretty hard was an insurance company in a rural area. Trees and branches down...power lines down.

It may happen again tonight. We're up to 90 (and climbing) in the shade with dew points in the 70s. Very sticky. Duke is usually up for a walk anytime, but he's laying low today.

Astronuc

It's been too hot for too long - and still is - in some parts!

“We just didn’t have the stuff,” said Ms. Hallett, 65. “All our pumpkins have died. Zucchinis? Dead. Our green beans are just sitting there turning rubbery. And my gladiolas never came up at all.” -NYTimes, Aug 5, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/us...-the-heat.html

turbo

I have to water the garden every day, and judging from the level of the back-yard pond, the dug well might be running low. I'll have to set up a portable pump to water the garden using water from the pond. Luckily the only fish in there are dace and they are well-adapted to warm, poorly oxygenated water.

Astronuc

We're expecting more thunderstorms this afternoon/evening. After several days of rain last week - the ground is again dry, and it is back again to being hot.

I cut the top off another dead pine tree yesterday. It didn't go down as planned, but it missed the neighbor's shed and car, and I have some new scratches.

turbo

We might be under the gun for more T-storms, too. The weather feels very unsettled, with winds swirling in from about every direction, alternately. When Duke doesn't want to go for walks, it's too hot and humid. After a couple of minutes, his tongue is hanging out.

Ivan Seeking

It is supposed to hit 104F here today. Oregonians measure temp in dog degrees, so that's like 728 to us!

Never heard of dog degrees? That's what you get on a dog-day afternoon.

Ivan Seeking

Uh, I just checked the temp online and saw the the high today has been reduced by 14 degrees! Yay! Around here, at 90 degrees we just melt instead of bursting into flames.

Evo

Weather here is bizarre, during the day, temps in the 90's, at night in the 60's and tonight it may even dip into the upper 50's!! At least I have a few dormant tomato blossoms finally showing tiny tomatoes appearing. But we're not getting nearly enough rain. We were supposed to get violent storms yesterday and nothing. I got a few sprinkles when I got outside, I'm talking 4 raindrops. Not as bad as the drought we had for several years in the early 2000's, but it's bad. The cracks in the ground were so deep that you couldn't find the bottom, even my basement walls cracked.

Jimmy Snyder

National weather service doppler radar continued to indicate a line of severe thunderstorms capable of producing damaging winds in excess of 60 mph. These storms were located along a line extending from jimmy's front yard to his back yard... Moving east at 15 mph.

Evo

Good luck!!

turbo

It was too hot to pull garlic today, but it had to be done. The humidity has been brutal. The first round of T-storms missed us, but it looks like we might get another one tonight.

Evo

We're having beautiful weather!! We finally got a break, below normal temps, very breezy. High today of 84F, low tonight 62F, high tomorrow 81F, low 59F.