Hot!

[Redbug]

I hear you! I had been working outside and just can't wait for the next few days! Don't shoot the joker...Just Joking!!!!

What coach once said something to the effect that Columbia was just a screen door away from h#ll! I did not do much planting in the deer plots this year because of the drought. Last summer was a bad one, and everything shrivelled up and died. I looked at some of the long range models this past spring and decided to put off planting...so far it does not look good. The poor farmers.

 

[WTA]

We've been over a hundred here all week. It's unusual even for this area. Yesterday was 107 and the wind was really howling between 30 and 50 mph all day. It was like being in a furnace almost. I'm no stranger to heat at all. I spent 10 years working in engine rooms on steam powered navy ships. THAT WAS HOT! On my first ship I came to believe 130 was a cool day in the hole.

I grew up in NC and SC on the coast and a few years in Tennessee. All I can say is if it's too hot to work then go fishing. I would. We don't have any fish around here and it's the one thing about this part of Texas that I absolutely can't stand.

 

[dooleysm]

It's been hot and getting hotter here in southern Indiana too. Temps in the low 90's for the rest of the week. More like July/August temps for us. We've been getting plenty of rain to keep the garden going great. All my plants grow noticably from day to day.

 

[dmccarty]

It was in the mid 90's yesterday.

Today 97. It will cool off next Wednesday when the high will be 95!

The forecast is for three days at 99 followed by two days of 98.

I brought in about 120 yards of mulch this spring. About 15 yards are in our garden and it sure does seem to hold the water in the soil. We have been getting almost an inch of rain every week but we have not seen any in a week or so. This year I managed to rig up a bunch of valves that allow me to run the soaker hoses in the garden. With the hoses and mulch seems like I can water less but this week will be the test.

The lakes are full around here but a few months ago it was looking mighty grim. Hope the severe drought does not return again. The cities are going to be very aggressive with water use this summer. They really did not let up when the lakes refilled.

We had been having such nice weather and then someone opened up the gates of h....ll. I had to turn on the AC last Saturday. I had put on the MX 6, greased it, set up the slip clutch and mowed for 4.5 hours. Got in the house and said I earned AC. It was the first day we had needed the AC. Usually we can wait another couple of weeks before turning it on.

I know we have had HOT and HUMID days in April and May because that is when we have birthday parties for the kids. Over the years we where just melting in the H and H. Last few years, including this year, the weather has been perfect. But we will pay the piper this week and next.

Its bad when the heat index is 105 and its the first of June.

Later,
Dan

 

[mjarrels]

Folks... You don't know what hot is until you have spent some time in the middle east... Now thats HOT!

mark

 

[Podunkadunk]

Folks... You don't know what hot is until you have spent some time in the middle east... Now thats HOT!

mark

Spent plenty of time in Oman, Bahrain and Qatar. I'll take the heat there over this lower Alabama stuff anyday! No humidity in the desert!!! I can't walk out onto the back deck for 2 minutes without coming in with sweat rings around the neck and armpits. I'll take dry heat over sticky heat any day.

Mark, what did you do in the Navy that got you to the middle east, or are you talking about a cruise to the gulf?

Podunk

 

[N80]

Folks... You don't know what hot is until you have spent some time in the middle east... Now thats HOT!

mark

Well, as they say, that's a dry heat.

I know that's a joke but it isn't without some truth. When the humidity is much above 80% sweating can become ineffective. Sweating works by evaporative cooling. If the humidity is 80% or more, the sweat cannot evaporate and it just collects on you and you cloths. It still helps, but not nearly as much as if it were evaporating continuously without collecting on your skin and cloths. This means that you don't cool as efficiently which means that you feel, and are hotter than you would be if the sweat were evaporating. And what's worse, is that you don't sweat any less so you can get just as dehydrated.

Of course 120 dry degrees is still probably worse that 100 wet degrees. So no thanks to the middle east, or Arizona or west Texas.

I will say this though, my brother used to be a serious and avid hiker and he claims he could handle 120 dry in New Mexico better than 100 and humid here.

 

[dmccarty]

South Florida is Hot and Humid. Tampa and Orlando are worse though.

Where I lived in South Florida, I took two steps out the door, walked down the stairs, took another 5-6 steps to get to the truck and got in to crank up the engine/AC. By the time I did this it was time to go back upstairs and take a shower.

For Saturday, I'm still planning on getting up at my usual workday time to get outside somewhat early before the heat really turns on. Figure I'll mow for a few hours and then change engine/hydraulic oil/filters in the tractor. Not real hard work and mainly in the shade. But it will be close to 100....

Or I could sit inside, play on the computer and/or watch some videos.

Later,
Dan

 

[4720 OWNER]

Just very glad got some climate control in the tractor. 50's in the morn here and then it is a crap shoot as to what will happen in the afternoon. Supposed to be a huge line of storms that is headed this way that arrive just after it turns hot and sticky. Best thing growing is the peas!! They love it.

 

[WTA]

The middle east used to be like a good vacation for me. It got me off the ship!!! I traded my dungarees for cammies and had some fun over there a few times.