Subj : Re: heat was: Minced Garl
To   : Nancy Backus
From : Ky Moffet
Date : Sun Aug 18 2019 19:01:00

NANCY BACKUS wrote:
> -=> Quoting Ky Moffet to Nancy Backus on 27-Jul-2019 20:00 <=-
> 
>   > Snow...?  That IS crazy...  guess your area is trying to balance out the
>   > rest of the country... like the close to 100 degree weather that Alaska
> 
>   KM> That's actually not very unusual for Alaska. Here's a handy map,
>   KM> albeit with some strange spots (no, it wasn't 110F in Seward in
>   KM> February, and the record high in Fairbanks is 99F).
>   KM> https://www.plantmaps.com/alaska-record-high-and-low-temperature-map.php
>   KM> And none of this summer's heat, anywhere in the country, can hold a
>   KM> candle to the heat wave of 1936. Care to guess the record high in
>   KM> North Dakota? 121F. (And in 1936 it was over 100F every day for a
>   KM> month.)
> 
> The heat we've been getting this year, though somewhat of an aberration
> some places, isn't really anything new... 1936 seems to have been
> another such year... but worse...  I'm just glad that it isn't a regular
> thing.... ;)

Better than the long cold winters that are coming... We have crops that 
can adapt to heat. Short cold growing season is a lot harder.

>   > has been getting, along with all those wildfires.... It sure does sound
>   > like Seattle instead of Summer, though... ;)
> 
>   KM> Then we finally got hot... and I think we're up to 6 days without
>   KM> rain... since April...
> 
> We've been dry long enough now that people are actually ready to have
> some rain.... :)  At least the humidity is down... we're having some
> pretty classic summer weather here lately... :)

We've gotten a whole bunch of rain in the past week, and last night it 
was down to about 52 degrees. My lawn is still entirely green, and if 
you're cutting hay, it's been an Adventure.
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