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High of 77* here today. Nice to eat dinner outside For the first time this summer. Low in the mid 40s tonightQuote:
Originally Posted by KQ
Alas, I need to enjoy while it lasts - highs back into mid 90s by the weekend
Bring on the chemtrails!Quote:
Originally Posted by liv2ski
Earth is only halfway through its lifespan, 5 billion more years to go. Humans are but a speck in the grand scheme of time, we won't last in any case.
To bad we have to take so many creatures, large and small with us. :frown:
I was just thinking about this yesterday. Normally I have a family of Swainson hawks that nest in some old Locus trees on my property. They come every year and raise chicks. This year due to the heat I fear their chicks died because since that horrible heat wave we had they have been gone.Quote:
Originally Posted by liv2ski
A local wild bird rescue posted about all the baby hawks they rec'd during that time. Seems the babies get too hot in the nest and jump out either dying from the fall or perishing on the ground unless a human intervenes and brings them to a rehab center.
If I'd known there was a chance of that I would have gone to the area where the trees are and checked for them. :frown:
Mid 90s in Baltimore watching the O's beat the Nats. I was f'ing hot! https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...7108b5a98e.jpg
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so we've been pretty fortunate to have a mostly mild summer thus far but tomorrow...tomorrow it will be 98 degrees with 54% humidity. that is a heat index of 117 degrees. tomorrow will not be a good day.
Fuck your goddamn “heat index”. It’s bad enough when they pull that fucking shit with that godamn windchill factor . It’s enough to call hot, “hot”. Any more than that and you’re just being a braggart.
The only good thing about the massive heat dome we had is that it is now, at least for me, the new metric against which all subsequent heat waves will be measured.
We have a "heat watch" for the next couple of days with a forecasted high of 103 to which I now say "pfffffffttt that ain't nothing. "
I dunno - went from CO to FL in early June. 90F down in the FL Keys was "really motherfuckin' hot" while 90F is just warm here. So I think it can be useful...Quote:
Originally Posted by m2711c
And SUF - FTS. That's *really* motherfuckin' hot.
This is pretty much how I know that the human race is doomed. We can adjust rapidly to *anything*... which works really well, until it doesn't. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by KQ
As a species, some will make it in their dome cities, but a lot of poor countries will be decimated. The animals are fucked.Quote:
Originally Posted by skaredshtles
Yes. We are doomed. Not very bright the human race. We have to have everything, can't just live in harmony with nature. Take EVs for example. I'm not convinced we aren't trading one environmental disaster for another. Why not invest in quality mass transit and telecommuting?Quote:
Originally Posted by skaredshtles
Whatever. Things are looking dire. Like any addict, it looks like we're going to have to hit rock bottom before something changes. Just look at this pandemic - it's a lost cause to try to fight those who want to politicize it or don't believe science. Seems letting the chips fall were they may is what needs to happen now because they will not see until it happens to them directly. In the meantime I'm just going to keep stabbing wool and crushing up catnip. At least I can make the kittehs happy.
COMMUNIST!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by KQ
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Need some narcan for the planet.Quote:
Originally Posted by KQ
Isn't that what covid is?
sent from Utah.
well at least the CWA/EWA weather forecast is looking good starting Sunday.
91° @ 9:24pm with 25% humidity (feels double that).
It is forecasted to be 82° at 8am tomorrow
Oh... and the smoke has rolled in. We've been real lucky up until today. About to cross over into the Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups category.
It hasn't rained here since mid June, there's been a total of 8 days of rain since the beginning of March. I cut down most of the wheat and all of the buckwheat a few weeks ago because they stopped growing. what's left of the wheat will be ready in a week or two, it's supposed to rain the end of next week, we'll see.
91° already.
Harvested my wheat week before last. Not much of a crop but it was something. At least the onions came out okay and didn't get fried like so many here in the valley. All that's left is the corn. Hoping the water master doesn't shut us off before it's done.
Rain in the forecast today/night.
'There was nothing we could save': Heatwave made mush of Walla Walla Sweet Onions
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Hay is going to be really expensive this year too due to the drought. Milk prices are also on the rise due to cows overheating and producing less.
Heat wave, drought disrupt ag market, production
People are fighting over hay on FB marketplace and CL here, crazy prices for anything available. I'm afraid there's going to be a lot of horses being sold off or abandoned later this year.
What state are you in? I've heard that people as far away as Wyoming are buying EWA hay when they can find it. My usual supplier has none to sell me this year. I've got a line on 12 tons of grass hay from a friend I usually buy just Teff from. He's told me not to worry, he's got me covered but I probably won't be able to relax until it's stacked in my hay barn.Quote:
Originally Posted by I Skied Bandini Mountain
Montana. The haystacks in the fields around me are about a third of what they usually are.
Small squares are going for $15 ea. on the ground. On top of the drought, the hoppers are real bad this year too.
$ 250.00 a ton is the going rate right now and bidding wars are a thing. I was told that the horse sale in Billings last week usually features around 30 animals, last week it was 300.
It's a knackers dream [emoji25]Quote:
Originally Posted by Bunion 2020
Walla Walla sweet onions are supposed to like the heat but were turned to mush by June's record heat wave:
https://www.seattletimes.com/busines...nions-to-mush/
what's the big Ag-focused insurance company out west? might be time (or too late) to short that stock.
For crop loss due to heat? Only the US Government touches MPCI (multi-peril crop insurance) as far as I know. Equipment, crop hail losses, bpp, buildings, sure, but not crops.
Here comes the next sear: 99 forecast for inland Seattle this coming Friday.
Cry me a river. Seriously, we could use the water.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buster Highmen
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That said, today was glorious. High of 75. Currently 65. Feels soooooooo good!
That’s nuts that you will go from a high of 75 to 100+ sustained for days.
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Yup, I would have a hard time living with that. Thankfully we have had it pretty good so far, but September is coming.
yeah, oof!
...not excited for the end of the week here either
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Might break 90 for a couple hours a day before rapidly cooling down to the low 70s / high 60s? Vibes…Quote:
Originally Posted by liv2ski
Naw, not 90 yet you bitter POS...
I meant in September
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;) yup...