It’s too hot to mow.

[FriendwithTractor]

My Grandmother (88 but who's counting) is a farm girl (Grew up poor). Hated when grandpa would turn the A/C on. Since he passed two years ago, she'd rather leave all the windows in the house open and run a fan. She made it until the 4th of July this year before she broke down and turned it on. Partly because she thinks it's too expensive and also because she enjoys the breeze and the sounds from her little lot.

Myself, put me in the "Rather be cold" camp. When I was a landscaper, there were days when I'd come home from work and empty the sweat out of my boots and wring my shirt out. But there were many more days where it was mid 70s and a lot more fun than sitting in the office I'm in now.

 

[Deleted member 371759]

I can take the heat just not the sun. I can work all day in a 100 degree shop but the sun beats me down. I would rather be hot than cold. I get cold sometimes I cant warm up. Pretty sure thats where "chilled to the bone" comes from. Spent a lot of time last winter doing work that required laying on the concrete. Sucked the heat out of me and would take a hot shower and hours to warm back up. Think this winter I will be prepared with those interlocking rubber mats. Creeper is nice but its only practical half of the time.

 

[marhar]

There have been a few allusions to AC making us soft, in the last several pages. What I've noticed is that we've lost some of our regional "pacing". Being a Yankee, I remember even as a kid how slow southerners would move, whenever we would drive through the southern states in the 1970's and 80's. Heck, they couldn't even talk fast in July, let alone fill up your car and check the oil at the service station.

I think this was an adapted behavior, many generations of living in this heat, without air conditioning. Nationally-syndicated television began homogenizing our speech long before air conditioning, I guess. But now that everyone lives, drives, sleeps and eats in air conditioned spaces, I see even more of these regional adaptations being lost. There's no longer such need to develop these slower inclinations, pacing yourself to beat the heat.

The other thing I remember when traveling through the south is when an old woman would say, "oh bless your soul," it wasn't a compliment. It was southern polite-speak for, "oh, you poor idiot."

I am one of the slow Southerners and I do not take issue with your post. Our economy revolved around agriculture and one cannot rush plants or livestock into growing. We learned to "walk the fence line" when going down to the fishing hole. I remember my mother picking beans in the morning and then shelling them during the heat of the day. We "conserved our energy" so we could work. When the weather turned cooler we also knew we would be up working as long as there was light to see by.

As a side note, I remember growing up in a house that had central air; my father would not use the AC because he was used to the heat. At night every window in the house would be opened and I would lay on top of the sheet and sweat. On Sunday's dad would wear a suit coat to church. The stained glass windows would only slightly open, there was no AC and we would wave hand fans given by the local funeral home.

 

[WinterDeere]

While "Global Warming" seems all the rage, it was just as hot or hotter years ago in Lancaster County. Hot spells were worse. The below links were referenced for our locale. The highest temp recorded here was 107° on 08/07/1918. Most days in a year over 100° was 1930. Most consecutive days over 90° was June 21 - July 5 in 1966. 1930 had the most days (133) over 80°.

Definitely. But bumps and wiggles in the local temperature is no more "climate", than a tire is a "car". Big complex system, of which any local weather over any short period is but one small component. And because it's a relatively complex system, there have been so many wrong conclusions and predictions drawn from it, but the science is always improving.

Things are warming up, and it's driving wider swings in our weather and storm systems, the data is clear on that. As to nailing down all of the contributors to that, and what fractional part each of them play in that warming, there's obviously a lot of debate on that.

Also, as the global average warms, believe it or not, there are areas that are going to get colder weather. Most notably, Great Britain who currently enjoys uncommonly warm weather for their latitude, is going to suffer some mighty cold weather if the Gulf Stream ever stalls. It is predicted that will happen, if the warming trend continues, but it's likely that prediction has some margin of error, and there's no saying that recent history will continue unchanged in pushing us that direction at any constant pace.

 

[tradosaurus]

Mowing with a zero turn provides enough breeze to make it manageable.

 

[tradosaurus]

Definitely. But bumps and wiggles in the local temperature is no more "climate", than a tire is a "car". Big complex system, of which any local weather over any short period is but one small component. And because it's a relatively complex system, there have been so many wrong conclusions and predictions drawn from it, but the science is always improving.

Things are warming up, and it's driving wider swings in our weather and storm systems, the data is clear on that. As to nailing down all of the contributors to that, and what fractional part each of them play in that warming, there's obviously a lot of debate on that.

Also, as the global average warms, believe it or not, there are areas that are going to get colder weather. Most notably, Great Britain who currently enjoys uncommonly warm weather for their latitude, is going to suffer some mighty cold weather if the Gulf Stream ever stalls. It is predicted that will happen, if the warming trend continues, but it's likely that prediction has some margin of error, and there's no saying that recent history will continue unchanged in pushing us that direction at any constant pace.

Climate change is a religion and the "data" can't go back far enough to provide an actual picture.
Remember when it used to be global warming? That didn't stick because of brutal winters so the name had to be changed.
Every climate change nut that has predicted gloom and doom since the 70's has been wrong. And will continue to be wrong.

 

[tradosaurus]

YOU may have 30 minutes of grass cutting, but some of us have acres to cut. Ain't no 30 minutes thing. (plus some medications limit your ability to sweat. No sweat = heat stroke.)

I mow for about 3 hrs on my zero turn. I usually start at 0800-0900 hrs. Never have an issue.

 

[Deleted member 371759]

Climate change is a religion and the "data" can't go back far enough to provide an actual picture.
Remember when it used to be global warming? That didn't stick because of brutal winters so the name had to be changed.
Every climate change nut that has predicted gloom and doom since the 70's has been wrong. And will continue to be wrong.

I remember my 6th grade teacher freaking us out about acid rain. Everything was going to corrode, bridges ,infrastructure, crops were going to die and famine was imminent, Ice ages, ozone holes its always something.

 

[masseyrider]

Pa wouldn't get ac in the house. Partially because he was... cheap.
also he was of the opinion that if you got used to it you wouldn't want to work outside. Sitting here in front of the screen I think I agree with him.

 

[tradosaurus]

Ma would have made sure Pa had the A/C on.