Gonna be a scorcher

Be careful out there yall

 

Thanks dad.

 

Don't talk back to your father

 

Yep, been that way in central TX for a couple weeks already. Hot and windy. Plays hell with trying to keep the garden adequately watered.

 

Yeah can't wait to see my next water bill. We are on 2 lots and haven't had rain in a coon's age

 

Temps, 100 to 105, index over 110, steady 20mph wind with gusts to 35-40 on some days. So far, I've had only 4" rain this year.

 

And the summer dry season has just started. Normally won't rain now till late September to early October.

 

Desert landscaping is your friend. Lowers your bill and conserves water at the same time. Had it when I lived in AZ. Too hot to be out on burnt grass anyway.

 

Same here.......96 with a heat index of 110 yesterday

 

Everything I have on this 20 acres is native, or xeric. Native field grasses are brown now, but that's typical. 2400 sq ft garden is drip irrigated, but it's the hot dry wind that makes it difficult. Lots of oak where I live, but climate is heavily influenced by the Chihuahuan Desert.

 

Considering this is my first home, I'm new to landscaping but I've already seen prices to scare me off for a while. As far as I'm concerned, let the green stuff die then bring in the pea gravel lol works for Arizonans

 

It ain't even July.....this summer is gonna be one for the books. We've already broken one heat record here...

 

We had snow flurries in the mountains this morning. Woke up to 38*. Highly unusual for June in NH.

 

Yessir, we broke a number of records in May, and dang near every day so far in June.

 

The next 14 days are supposed to be actual temps of 100, 101, 102 going to be hot hot hot for two more weeks!! and no rain. Water bill will be astronomical!!! Everyone working outside be safe out there!!.

 

Worst drought we've had here since 2011. That year wells were going dry all over the Hill Country. My two wells were fine, since the pumps sit 70' below the 275' water table.

 

So is heat index like windchill. Just an inflated number to dramatize the weather? Hot is hot and cold is cold.

 

Sorta true, but there is a big difference betweem 100° at 20% humidity, and 90° at 90% humidity. Lived in both in my lifetime, and believe me, I'll take the dry heat any day.

edit ..... but at my age, I don't work in the hot afternoons anymore. Early morning up till lunch, and again around dusk. Any other time in the summer is siesta time.

 

That's insane to think about right now.

 

Jeez that's almost reaching the Land Before Time stuff

 

I was 18 in 1980 and working in a lumberyard outdoor warehouse...
Article was written in 2010.

Dallas-Fort Worth heat wave of 1980 still seared into memories (dallasnews.com)

 

Yessir, it's "old water" Been down there a long time. Really good water, and at my location that aquifer has very little pressure. There is a county test well about a quarter mile from my place, where they measure the table once every quarter. The aquifer level hasn't varied over 6 inches since I built 22 years ago.

 

I was 3.

 

The track men who walk the ground are taking a beating on the tracks up here in Texarkana, heat off the track bed, all the heat from the machinery doing work, tall pines up here no wind

 

That radiant heat is a bitch. Take care man.

 

I wish it were that cool.

Been well over 100 and up to 114 since April, today it's only 103 but that is because it's windy with 40% humidity.

 

Did you guys get rain the other day? We didn’t get spit!
The mesquite beans were falling on the roof and I got all excited for nothing!

 

I'm sorry, please explain this word rain. I am not familiar with that premise.

It has been acting like it might rain for over a week, nothing coming from the sky but sunshine & bird crap.

 

We’re at like 24% humidity so it’s not as bad