Summer Heat: Would You Like 105 F Instead?

[dlgoff]

I may have to get some help and take down that TV mast.

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/fairs-like-crops-are-drooping-with-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]

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.

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.

 

[dlgoff]

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.

And last night missed rain again by a storm cell less than a miles from here.

 

[Evo]

And last night missed rain again by a storm cell less than a miles from here.

We need more rain!

Fall is going to be really disappointing this year, the trees have almost no leaves left!

How are your temps? You always seem to be hotter in summer and colder in winter.

 

[dlgoff]

We need more rain!

Fall is going to be really disappointing this year, the trees have almost no leaves left!

How are your temps? You always seem to be hotter in summer and colder in winter.

I think on the average your and my temps are about the same. The biggest problem here is not even getting the 0.1 inch rains.

 

[Andre]

We are heading for the hottest day in the year. It's already 28ºC (82.4F) at 11am right here. The all time record measured in the Netherlands is 38,6ºC (101.5F) at Warnsveld, 23 Augustus 1944. I don't think we'll get there, but who knows.

 

[turbo]

It's not hot, but at ~60 deg F it's pretty warm for this time of year. We have heavy rains and T-storms tonight and have had power interrupted over and over again. The interruptions have not been confined to back roads, because when that happens, you have to call the power company, and they dispatch (eventually) a crew to check the safeties. If they find no wires down or grounded on trees, they eventually backtrack and start closing those safeties. These outages are probably due to hits on major transmission lines and transformers.

 

[dlgoff]

It's about the same here turbo; 62ºF. Tomorrow is forecast to be about 80ºF. But but by Thursday, I'll probably be posting in the "Baby it's cold outside" thread.

 

[Evo]

I've had the air conditioner on all day.

 

[turbo]

70 degrees in the shade today. Good day for tilling and cleaning out gardens.

 

[FreeMitya]

I'm in Toronto. It's 7^oC outside and the angels are relieving themselves on us.