Rain, Cool No heat wave here

Mousefield · Jul 21, 2011

Was doing some seat time on the tractor this afternoon and had to come in because it started raining again. After having the coldest, wettest and dullest April and May in 51 years June was not much better and July has followed right along this pattern. This morning it was 11.4C or 52.5F at 6:30AM. Last week I had the wood stove in the shop on twice and one evening the wood stove in the house. The past few years we had hotter and longer summers than normal so definitely an off year for weather here. Our strawberry's ripened about 4 weeks late, then after a few days we had rain and showers and some went moldy. The main story on the 6PM TV news last night was about our poor weather and then followed by all the states that have heat or extreme heat warnings. For about the 5-6th time they did a story on how the heat has impacted Texas and other southern states. See the heat has now arrived in central Canada.
Not complaining, just making an observation.
Would much rather have our weather than weeks of 100 + degrees. Hope it both cools down and rains for everyone impacted by the heat and drought sure can't be much fun doing anything in that environment. On the bright side it does look like we are slowly going to be getting more sun over the next couple of weeks. May even be enough to turn our green grass brown.

Johndeere3720 · Jul 21, 2011

Man, we got the same weather here in Oregon. It sprinkled a bit while my grandpa and I were digging a ditch along the house today. We haven't needed the stove on but it does get a bit brisk at night. Hay season here is about a month late, many of the farmers have yet to harvest their fields. It has been overcast skies for the past few weeks, hopefully the sun will come back around. We haven't seen a day hitting 90*F yet either. I do have to say that on the barn roof we just finished up yesterday, I was so glad it was overcast skies, those metal roofs get very bright when you are installing them on a sunny day.

harleyboy · Jul 21, 2011

I would gladly send you some heat 120F with the humidex today broke a 50 yr record here in SW ontario canada.
HB

Bird · Jul 21, 2011

Would much rather have our weather than weeks of 100 + degrees.

So would I, but so far that's not what we've had. I got some pictures today from a brother up in the state of Washington on a little motorcycle trip he and his son and a friend took recently and the snow still up there.

lakngulf · Jul 21, 2011

We need to install a cross country pipe to send you some 110 heat index weather and you could share some cool air. Our AC units are working double time and you are burning wood. WOW. I hear you on preferring the rain/cold over the heat/dry. Thank goodness we have had some decent rain this year to keep things kinda/sorta in order, and to keep water in the lake.

I take it literally when people tell me to "Go jump in a lake"

Knight9 · Jul 21, 2011

Mousefield said:
This morning it was 11.4C or 52.5F at 6:30AM.

It was 8 this morning at my place and I had dew on the lawn. We too have had a VERY wet spring/summer. Something like 22 or 24 out of the 30 days in June had rain. Garden has been too wet to get in to for weeding.

I keep hearing that Environment Canada said a hotter and drier summer than normal across the whole country. Guess they aren't quite right.

CompactTractorFan · Jul 22, 2011

See my thread: :confused2:

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/rural-living/214306-sure-hot-out-here.html

Pilot · Jul 23, 2011

Another in northwest Oregon. Last week our club helped out another club at a fly-in pancake breakfast and instead of the usual 150 or so airplanes, they had 5. That's 5 in 2 days. Rain, rain, rain. Fortunately, they had a bunch of people drive in, so it wasn't a total bust.

But today, the following Saturday, our club gave airplane rides to 54 kids with just about perfect weather, clear, 77 degrees, hardly any wind. Finally decent weather, but it isn't supposed to last--chance of showers forecast on Tuesday, which in this areas means 100% chance of rain.

So far this has been a rerun of last summer, which was kind of a year with no summer--only this year it's worse.

For you folks who are roasting, we don't really want all 110 degrees. 10 degrees and about 45 days of no rain would be nice.

Larry Caldwell · Jul 26, 2011

Bird said:
So would I, but so far that's not what we've had. I got some pictures today from a brother up in the state of Washington on a little motorcycle trip he and his son and a friend took recently and the snow still up there.

They finally opened the 31 mile Rim Drive at Crater Lake yesterday. You can hike to the lake, but most of the trails are still covered in snow. Average snow depth is only about a foot, though it's deeper where it has drifted or been piled.

Johndeere3720 · Jul 26, 2011

The weather sure does change though once we crossed the cascades this last weekend. It got up to 103* down in Lake Billy Chinook. That was plenty warm for me. When we came home yesterday you could literally see the line of clouds on the west side, the east side was hot and sunny, the west side was overcast and raining. :confused2: