Somebody Turn Down the Damn Heat!!

[SunisinuS]

Would you want to party with these guys ?

Would you?

[ZahZoo]

Wow, where do you live?

We haven't had a day without rain yet. Just earlier this week we had hail storm for two days. It really hasn't been summer at all. But the garden is green. And the mosquitos are huge. The spanish snail is gonna take over the country, and get in the parliament. Today was actually nice, ONE day we got up to this point.

Edit: Spanish slug in english, not snail.

I'm in north central Arkansas... average highs tend to be in the low 90's F this time of year. We've had about 21 days over 100F the last 4 weeks. Add average rainfall is about 14 inches below normal year to date. So it's just gotten pretty dry and crispy here... I guess the good news is a mild cold front is supposed to pass through today sometime and we'll have highs around 98 next week!! Woooo Hooo break out the jackets!!

[Angel]

29 degrees here today. I think it feels more like 33 or 34 though. Cooler than yesterday. Yesterday it was 40. Envy can tell you...that's hot.

[envy_me]

40 IS hot!! We had about 17 today. Further up north was about 8. And you americans, 0 is freezing point for water, 100 is boiling point, so now you get how low 8 is... I think fall is here.

[Little Texan]

I'm in north central Arkansas... average highs tend to be in the low 90's F this time of year. We've had about 21 days over 100F the last 4 weeks. Add average rainfall is about 14 inches below normal year to date. So it's just gotten pretty dry and crispy here... I guess the good news is a mild cold front is supposed to pass through today sometime and we'll have highs around 98 next week!! Woooo Hooo break out the jackets!!

Sounds like you are having the kind of summer we had here in East Texas last year. It reached 100 degrees in late May, and it didn't get out of the 100's until late September/early October, and it was bone dry...couldn't buy a drop of rain. It got up to around 110 for a few days one week last August. Then fires started breaking out all over the place in September, and for a few weeks every time you stepped outside there was a plume of smoke and a new fire somewhere, and a strong, persistent smoke smell from all of the fires that were going on. I hope you get some rain before any of that happens. Last summer was the most miserable one I've ever been through. I stayed camped out in front of the ac the whole week during the 110 degree days, and only went outside long enough to take care of my chickens and make sure they had plenty of water and were doing ok in the extreme heat. I was putting four trays of ice cubes in their water, had a box fan on them 24/7, and sprayed them down with water every day to keep them cool.

[envy_me]

I'm in north central Arkansas... average highs tend to be in the low 90's F this time of year. We've had about 21 days over 100F the last 4 weeks. Add average rainfall is about 14 inches below normal year to date. So it's just gotten pretty dry and crispy here... I guess the good news is a mild cold front is supposed to pass through today sometime and we'll have highs around 98 next week!! Woooo Hooo break out the jackets!!

Damn, I won't ever complain about the rain again. Rain is life, I realize now.

[PETE'S BROTHER]

az has been in a drought for 15 years

[envy_me]

I am not at all satisfied with how nature functions. Why not make it just about right everywhere.

[PETE'S BROTHER]

damn gravity/magnetic poles

[SunisinuS]

I am not at all satisfied with how nature functions. Why not make it just about right everywhere.

You are calling my name?

[envy_me]

damn gravity/magnetic poles

...and urge for reproduction.

[clarathecarrot]

Damn, I won't ever complain about the rain again. Rain is life, I realize now.

The only three things in this world I like,.. dogs barking all night, crying babies anywhere, and rain anytime.

[Nitro Express]

az has been in a drought for 15 years

We were in drought for ten years. Jackson lake used to be bone dry. I actually sold my boat because there was no water. The teton range was bare with the glaciers melted. Then we had a huge winter. Last winter was warmer but we still got a lot of precipitation. Water here is not a problem though. We have lots of ground water and then of course the snow load in the mountains. If we could tap the geothermal heat under Yellowstone energy would not be a problem we would be like Iceland.

The real trouble places could be west Texas and east New Mexico. They have almost pumped their aquifer there dry. Instead of working together and using some drip irrigation technology they just sprayed water, water it and fought over it and once it's gone, nobody is going to want to live there. When I lived in Israel they were pushing the envelope with drip irrigation technology. You could sit out there by Jericho and see the border with Jordon because the green would stop and go back to desert. It's pretty amazing what the Jews have done there with little water resources. The rest of the world could learn a lot from them.

[Little Texan]

az has been in a drought for 15 years

Yeah, but Arizona is mostly desert, so that is not at all unusual.

[Dan]

Wet,Windy,Cold And Wild.I Hate WINTER.