We’ve been up into the hundreds here in Utah lately.
Haven’t had rain for at least two months (IIRC).
I water the buhjaysus out of my lawn and it still gets cooked to a crisp.
I really miss living on the west coast. The weather was so much more temperate.
I remember one summer living in Vancouver it got up to 94 degrees F, and everyone was calling it a heat wave (I see that it’s only going get up to 70 deg F up there today with some rain…I really really miss the rain; it’s already above 70 degrees here and it’s only 7am…I hate living in the desert).
We’ll probably burn to a crisp again this year here as well, what with how dry it’s getting.
It seems every year we burn like crazy.
Weird weather for the last weeks. Sunny, rainy, stormy, thunderstorms, hail, and everything on the same day in intervals between ten minutes and a couple of hours. Temperature differences up to 10°C within minutes.
Pretty hot and humid here. And dry. Usually we’re upper 80’s to low 90’s for this time of year but we’re running about 10 degrees warmer this summer. Hopefully it won’t stay that way much longer. We’re supposed to have a cool front come through tonight. We’re not in drought here yet, but our intermittant thunderstorms aren’t leaving much moisture in the ground. Still. . . the gardens are doing fine. Anybody want any zucchini? Really, we have plenty. . .
That reads like it should be an oxymoron, but I know wherefrom
you speak. If I forget to water my tomato plant for a day, it looks
like a mummy. When I do water it I can almost hear a little sigh
from the roots.
besides the fact that this is all hell on wheels climate-wise. short-sighted and selfish-wise, i like the hot humid and dry. i am floating in my pool a lot more and enjoying that i don’t have to cut the grass. the nights have been warm enough for a late night dip too. even before spring/summer came, i knew i wouldn’t be able to garden this summer so i’m not the least bit upset that all fruits and veggies will come from roadside stands. my neighbors are quite willing and eager to share their flowers and let me cut a few when we have company.
I was just up there and thought the lawns looked really brown. I mentioned to someone it must have been pretty dry and she said you were behind by an inch of rain. It looked worse than that to me. Drought seems like a better description of the situation.
I think Iowa has been a little warmer than usual and it’s definitely been drier. The lawns are plenty green though. People have been having to water delicate plants or newly-planted ones, but but no big problems so far. I hate heat and humidity so I am not the happiest of campers during the summer. I think on Monday it’s supposed to be really hot and I’m turning on the air conditioner!!!
Not much to report from here in the North Country (Jim Cantore of Weather Channel fame hasn’t been in our neck of the woods for a long time…I really do fear that man). Yesterday was hotter than…well, you know. But today was nice and cool, hitting about 74F at the most, with a nice breeze.
Holmes County in Ohio (where they are migrating from) has become tourist central, and very crowded. If you go there in the summer (which I did frequently because my midwife was there and it’s the best place to get fresh veg this time of year), you have to almost literally wade through the people along the streets. And these are small towns.
I didn’t realize that they were as far down as where you are, Jerry. Up here, we’ve had them around Heuvelton for as long as I remember (the Amish where I get my eggs have been there for over 20 years), but they are now all around me in Canton, as well as over toward Franklin County. St. Lawrence county is becoming another Holmes Co. it seems. I just hope that the tourist trade stays minimal.
The Amish only started arriving a year or two ago.
We get some tourism already because of Lake Ontario and the rivers that flow into it, for fishing and boating, and there’s quite a bit of deer, turkey and pheasant hunting that attracts people as well. It may be that the presence of the Amish and their foods and crafts for sale might become part of the tourism activity. This area is so economically depressed, that would be a welcome development, I think. It will be interesting to see what’s in the future.
You mentioned that you weren’t aware that they’re as “far down” as where I am, compared to “up here” where you are. We’re 65 miles from the Canadian border. You come east from Cleveland, through Buffalo to Syracuse and then turn left and go 40 miles north to get here.
You have to understand that those of us that live on the border (I’m about 20 miles away from the border at the most) say that everyone is “down-state”. And far for me would be past Watertown, which if you look latituderally, I am north of. Not that it really is far…I was more surprised that they (the Amish) actually went south of Jefferson County.
Hi all, I’ve been off-line for a while due to homeschool end-of-year review, but that’s all done and now I can hang out again.
Cowtime, what do they think is the reason for your drought? Is it El Nino / La Nina / ??? Do they expect relief when the August storms come up from Florida?
Honestly I have been thinking of you every time I weed my garden. It’s looking really nice this year, and not a squash bug in sight Last year we had crispy lawns and dying shrubs but this year the rain seems to be just right. I wish we could send you some.
A year with no squash bugs is a great thing. Wish I could say things were all that good here.
I’ve also been invaded (sqash, zukes, cukes, and pumpkins) with Squash Vine Borers. They’re nasty little pieces of work, I tell you.
You have to slit the stems longwise and dig out the little white worm that you almost need a microscope to see, cover over the part othe stem you cut with soil, and pray that roots start growing from there.
So far so good, but it was looking like a very sad Halloween was going to be in my future with no pumpkin crop. That would just be really irritating. I think I got to them in time though.
It figures the year I want to eliminate most of my lawn and plant a whole lot of fruits, veggies, and flowers, I have to fight the battle of the nasities everyday. I almost am ready to give up on being completely organic. . . almost. On the good side, since I got a bee hive, I’m seeing a lot of bees around pollinating everything like crazy.
You have to understand that those of us that live on the border (I’m about 20 miles away from the border at the most) say that everyone is “down-state”. And far for me would be past Watertown, which if you look latituderally, I am north of. Not that it really is far…I was more surprised that they (the Amish) actually went south of Jefferson County.
and now I can hang out again.
Last year we had crispy lawns and dying shrubs but this year the rain seems to be just right. I wish we could send you some. 
