Pacific North West - Excessive heat warning issued

[Diggin It]

I sure wish y'all'd take some of this wet. Nearly every month now for going on 5 years, maybe more has been excess railfall. Some months just barely, but some months by double or more. Ground is often soggy, flooding is fairly common. Ground is often too wet to mow grass which is growing like crazy. I hate to mow it wet, but too many times there just isn't any choice.

 

[oosik]

My God - I spoke too soon. 7:15 pm... 93F.....1% RH. I wonder what happens if it hits 0% RH. We all turn to raisins.

 

[JamesHW]

Reposting this link to the design for an inexpensive (like $150), high volume filter made up of a box fan, 4-5 MERV-13 filters and tape that should be able to remove smoke from interior air.

A Variation on the "Box Fan with MERV 13 Filter" Air Cleaner

 

[oosik]

Hmmm ....... 4pm - 95F - 1% RH. Continued weather like this is just asking for trouble.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

The freaking wind sucks the moisture out of everything. I'm losing an inch a day out of the wading pool, which is in the shade most of the day.

 

[Diggin It]

I've had something like 5" of rain this week, maybe more. Humidity has been in the 70s and 80s. Pool is overflowing. Ditches are washing out. Grass thick and tall, but too wet to cut.

 

[grsthegreat]

no real rain here for 2 months. very odd.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Now they are getting a lot of smoke too. It doesn't look like there is much there to burn. I hope not. Range fires can be ugly too. Farmers on the east end of The Gorge lost a lot of wheat to a wind driven range fire last year. This year it's already harvested, but I don't think the straw is baled yet.

This is drought. This is grasshoppers. This is our alfalfa hay field. This is what it looks like when you say you have no hay to put up this year. This is not over grazing. In fact, this field is our winter grazing, which will be none this year. This is why many ranchers are selling livestock. Even if they have hay, they don’t have grazing. Please pray for southeast MT, especially my area of Baker. We are in a world of hurt with no end in sight. - Philip N Andrea Huft

 

[oosik]

Back to the '30's and the Dust Bowl era - ???? That picture is not a pleasant looking situation.

And what grsthegreat doesn't get over there in North ID - we don't get here in NE WA.

 

[ponytug]

Speaking of the '30s, there is a great little book on it; "The Worst Hard Time". I found it a great reminder of how hard it is to look at a weather season and think "this is now the new normal..."

Great stories within the book, about a terrible time, made worse by human actions and politics.

All the best,

Peter