At noon the outside temperature was in triple digits, although I see now it has cooled down to 99 degrees. The National Weather Service has issued an “excessive heat warning” for southern New York state. Do tell. It’s supposed to be considerably cooler by Friday, though.
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maha,
I’m a little over an hour North of Yonkers.
And it’s no better.
I feel like I’m back in Fayetteville, NC – a small city along the Cape Fear River that holds heat and humidity like no other place I’ve ever lived.
And now, here, it’s in the high 70’s/low 80’s – AT NIGHT!
I don’t remember this in early-mid July from when I was younger. Maybe a week or so, early-mid August.
And it’s been dry. The local corn crop is probably ruined, and probably the tomato’s, too.
And there’s no better late summer dinner for me, than a couple of ears of steamed corn, with some butter, salt, and pepper, and a tomato-mayo-and-cheese sandwich, on rye, pumpernickel, or whole grain bread.
Yum!
We’ve been lucky so far. We had a few days where it hit just over a hundred, but we have some wooded land and out of the sun, it never got about the mid 90’s by our house thermometer. Just as everything green seemed like it had just a few days left, it started to rain nearly every afternoon and it’s been tolerable. The hay crop is good this year and for us, that’s the main thing. A few years back we had to go in with our neighbors and get a trailer load of hay from upstate New York, 640 bales, if I remember right. It seemed like the prettiest sight I’d ever seen at the time. We were just a few days from running completely out, with no local sources left.
But, our turn of bad luck will come around, I’m just glad it’s not here now.
Cooler on the east coast means instead 93 degrees, it will be 90 degrees. I am so happy here in the very pleasant temperatures of the Pacific Northwest. Right now, it is a very pleasant 67 degrees. Leaving the east coast was the best thing I ever did. I do feel for your discomfort as I knew it for 24 years.
I wish I was there, Bonnie. I am so homesick. At least the storm this afternoon broke through our 100 degrees, here in south central PA.
It’s been over 95 at least 15 of the last 20 days here and we have had vertually no rain. Lake MI is at its lowest level that I can remember, its a tough year for the farmers in this area. If most were not owned by corporate multi-nationals I might feel sorry for them, instead they will just import what they need, raise the prices and pass the cost to us shmucks. As long as they preserve value for the sharholders, thats all that really matters.
Ok, so the car said the outside temp here today in Iowa was 104. We have had several days at 100 or more and nothing below the upper 90’s for ages and no relief in sight. Rain would dry up before it could hit the ground and I swear this to you: our ditsy anchor lady on the local news baked cookies on the hood of her car on a cookie sheet. Now I love the heat and loathe the cold so this is a treat for me personally being stuck in a state that is normally colder than any human should live in BUT even the birds are panting. It does get down to the upper 70’s at night, however the heat the ground has built up all day makes it a bit more toasty.Being in a big farm state I can see the crops and livestock withering. And our trees? This is the weirdest thing I have ever seen! Our leaves are starting to fall and when I mentioned it to a neighbor she pointed to a tree where the leaves were turning red like they do in the fall! In early July we noticed it. Green leaves falling in the yard and some trees changing colors?? What the hell do you make of that? Now I am only in my mid 40’s but I have never in my life seen such a thing.Maybe our anchor ditz should check in to that when she is done telling us it is hot enough to bake cookies on her car.Holy balls are we ever going to pay for the long hot summer this winter. I better get the snow blowers tuned up!
I do envy those who live in the Pacific Northwest. We love Seattle and Portland. They also seem like relatively sane and cultured ares as compared with our little patch of the NC piedmont. We’re heading to Bend and Portland in August, with a mind to weigh them as a retirement option. There’s quite a ‘gypsy jazz” (jazz manouche) scene there. I hope to run into some players and get some advice.
I just ran across an article about the corn crop. if you’ve ever grown corn and got smacked with a drought you know how quickly it can go from succulent to inedible. Our horses still liked it, but that was about it.
Goatherd, I am predicting you and your herd will love Oregon. Have fun on your NW break!
Since menopause, I really HATE summer. I feel like I’m roasting all the time (and 3 straight weeks of 95-102 degrees doesn’t help). Luckily (I guess), I’m back at work now from medical leave, and my workplace a/c is way more efficient than the teeny window unit in my apt. Also, I highly recommend Edy’s fruit-flavored popsicles.
Maybe I’ll retire to the Pacific NW! Unless Mt. Rainier blows….
Here north of Greensboro, NC, we are toasty and sweaty, but hoping for cooler weather again by Saturday. Pet plug: adoption fair Saturday at PetSense in Reidsville! The heat is bad, but the ticks and chiggers are even worse. 36 bites on my left foot alone in one day while planting blueberry bushes! I’m having to wear knee-high rubber dairy boots and long nylon pants tucked in, all sprayed with DeepWoods Off to keep from being devoured. Vacation plans: Tucson for the middle two weeks of August! It’s a dry heat, you know.