Subj : Re: heat was: Minced Garl
To   : Ky Moffet
From : Nancy Backus
Date : Fri Aug 23 2019 15:30:16

-=> Quoting Ky Moffet to Nancy Backus on 18-Aug-2019 19:01 <=-

 >   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). https://www.
 >   KM> 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.... ;)
 KM> Better than the long cold winters that are coming... We have crops
 KM> that can adapt to heat. Short cold growing season is a lot harder.

True.  There are some crops that work there, though...

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

I can imagine... After a few hot humid (and rather miserable) days (and
nights), we're having a few simply beautiful days... sunny, highs in the
70s and lows at night in the 50s... :)

ttyl       neb

.... I would never eat inorganic food.

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