-26F or -31C here tonight, how cold is it by you?

[moose eater]

+86 f. on the front porch right now in the shade. 'Bout +88 f on the barn. Summer's finally arrived as of several days ago. S'posed to be several days of the mid-80s or so, counting yesterday, then back to mid +70s for the foreseeable future. Garden likes it a lot.

Sum, sum, sum, sum, sum, sum, summer time. Sum, sum, sum, sum, sum, sum, summer time....

 

[armedoldhippy]

rained right at dark, much cooler now thank God. i hate summer! where the FUCK is fall at? i need some frost...

 

[TychoMonolyth]

First real rain since may. It's coming down in buckets and is supposed to keep raining for 4 days. Awesomeness. The heat also broke.

 

[420somewhere]

Hot hot hot...

Hot hot hot...

110+ daytime...

Low 70's in the morning

 

[moose eater]

We were upper 80s f. again yesterday; broke records in numerous places in the Interior 2 days ago. They said we were supposed to be mid-80s again today, but it's cloud-covered for now, and I'm not sure we'll see the weather of the last 3 days or so..

But we normally do all kinds of veggies successfully in open raised beds, and this year, due to getting screwed out of our warmth in spring and early-to-mid summer, and being excessively damp earlier, I think it's going to cost us.

The colder crops, broccoli, snow peas, cauliflower, cabbage, etc., they couldn't care less. But the stuff that likes heat, they're flipping me the bird every time I walked out in the garden for the last month-and-a-half or so.

You sound a bit like my younger son, hippie; he keeps telling me he wants to see snow so he can ride his machines, and I've been half-tempted to cuff him up side the back of his head. ;^>)

I suspect that 40 years from now, if he's still in Alaska, and by then he's done enough bare-handed jobs in even moderate cold, he'll be singing a different tune.

Doubt I'll ever join the mas migration of senior Alaskans to Hawaii, but there's times the Southern tip of the South Island of New Zealand has looked VERY tempting. ;^>)

 

[mexcurandero420]

At the moment 82 F, tomorrow 96.5 F

 

[Robrites]

 

[Stoner4Life]

never got above 72F in the sun today, strong breeze made it much cooler sittin' in the shade as I do.......

 

[armedoldhippy]

You sound a bit like my younger son, hippie; he keeps telling me he wants to see snow so he can ride his machines, and I've been half-tempted to cuff him up side the back of his head. ;^>)

Doubt I'll ever join the mas migration of senior Alaskans to Hawaii, but there's times the Southern tip of the South Island of New Zealand has looked VERY tempting. ;^>)

i been smacked up side the head before, no doubt it will happen again. but i'd rather scrape frost from my windshield of a morning than sweat on the way to work.

if i could drive to New Zealand, i would already be there. beautiful beaches, but snow in the mountains pretty close by. plus, probably the best trout fishing in the world...

 

[Robrites]

never got above 72F in the sun today, strong breeze made it much cooler sittin' in the shade as I do.......

We have been right at a hundred for a couple of weeks. Monday will be 105-107.

 

[Stoner4Life]

We have been right at a hundred for a couple of weeks. Monday will be 105-107.

gtf outta there bro, imagine if they're right and we are warming @ an accelerated rate???

and the worst of the dog days have yet to come, the dog days of summer this year are July 22nd thru August 23rd, although the Old Farmer's Almanac continues to follow.....
According to The Old Farmer's Almanac, the Dog Days of summer are traditionally the 40 days beginning July 3 and ending August 11, which coincide with the dawn rising of the Sirius, the Dog Star.

Who can argue in either case? the west/southwest have suffered some hellish temps all summer long.

Let me assure you, it's a shit-ton easier keeping warm in the winter than it is keeping cool (especially when growing) in the summer.

When MN finally legalizes med patients the right to grow their own I'm in like Flint!!! Until then it's a closely guarded secret.

 

[moose eater]

I wasn't gonna' cuff -your- head, hippie!! You and I are old enough now to make our own mistakes without conjured or fabricated consequences. It's the young'uns that still have a chance to learn something through abrupt but limited physical contact of that sort.

In fact, I think back fondly on 1 or 2 of the folks in my distant past who put the ol' iron-claw, Spock-grip on my shoulder, and said, "How 'bout you think about that for a minute or 2, son..."

We did indeed break into the upper 80s yesterday. Today we were mostly mid-70s. Enough breeze to fool a person into thinking there wasn't much humidity.

S'posed to be mid-70s or so for tomorrow, last I heard, and some time over the week-end, maybe back up into the 80s.

I like mid-70s w/some clouds.. Makes me think of coastal Northern California. A nice climate.

Far as preferences go hippie, I used to tell people (in contrasting the extremes of Interior Alaska in the Winter to Phoenix, Az. in the Summer; "I can put on all kinds of winter clothes all doo dah day, and eventually be warm, but there's only so much naked you can get before someone throws you in jail."

i been smacked up side the head before, no doubt it will happen again. but i'd rather scrape frost from my windshield of a morning than sweat on the way to work.

if i could drive to New Zealand, i would already be there. beautiful beaches, but snow in the mountains pretty close by. plus, probably the best trout fishing in the world...

 

[armedoldhippy]

Far as preferences go hippie, I used to tell people (in contrasting the extremes of Interior Alaska in the Winter to Phoenix, Az. in the Summer; "I can put on all kinds of winter clothes all doo dah day, and eventually be warm, but there's only so much naked you can get before someone throws you in jail."

at least until the sun goes down... i think the arabs have been trying to tell us something for centuries with their loose-fitting long-sleeved white shirts etc. REFLECT those sunbeams boys, not soak them up!

 

[Robrites]

Message summary: ...hot with near record high temperatures possible next monday... .a strong high pressure system will strengthen over the pacific northwest and temperatures will continue to approach the century mark through the weekend. By monday...temperatures are expected to climb even higher and approach or exceed record high temperatures. Little relief from the heat is expected in the mountains as temperatures...

 

[Robrites]

 

[Stoner4Life]

Message summary: ...hot with near record high temperatures possible next monday... .a strong high pressure system will strengthen over the pacific northwest and temperatures will continue to approach the century mark through the weekend. By monday...temperatures are expected to climb even higher and approach or exceed record high temperatures. Little relief from the heat is expected in the mountains as temperatures...

this is where having a generator makes sense, you gotta know that there's gonna be huge loads put on the electrical grid. Everything's gonna be stressed, even refrigerators (every fridge on the grid!) will work harder to keep up with warmer inside home temps. Propane or natural gas generators are tops.






okay, another day in paradise, 75-76F humidity unremarkable, maybe 50%, light wind but enough to keep mosquitoes & flies away.

that's my front yard (a small part of) & that tree is in the highway 'right-of-way' I get to maintain the 'row' as I see fit, as you can see it was just recently cut. I do like it to grow taller to keep the dust down from passing traffic. My driveway is a 400 frontage road running alongside the highway, but it's my private property; not a road, I pay for it to be plowed, and asphalt repairs, etc...

At one exit of my driveway and going right to left (that level line) across the pic is the highway, a 55mph zone but folks go faster.

I keep my dog within sight @ all times, or if I'll be distracted I kennel her for safety's sake. She stops in her tracks when I blow the coaches whistle hanging from my neck.

 

[Robrites]

 

[TychoMonolyth]

Sweet spot S4L.

 

[Stoner4Life]

crazy weather up here, I had 88F/31C, tomorrow it's predicted to have a high of 65F

we had a passing thunderstorm but it was nothing hard, but evidently is gonna help to drive the temps down for Wednesday.......

 

[TychoMonolyth]

Mid 80s with high RH 'till next week.