Relentless
We had a short-lived respite from the relentless heat yesterday.It has been in the 90s for most of the past several weeks, and actually got up to 103F Sunday afternoon (when we were playing golf), but then rained for several hours on Tuesday, which brought in a cooler front. So yesterday was a very comfortable 75F, a full 20 degrees lower than most days recently, so felt almost cold in comparison. But it is only a brief interlude. It is already climbing back, being in the low 80s today and reaching high 80s again by the weekend.
I heard on the news yesterday that Illinois has been declared an agricultural drought disaster area, and farmers are applying for government financial help as most of their crops are lost. They said a couple of weeks ago that any rain we have now would be too late to save much. This has been the driest summer round here on record. They have also been giving out warnings a lot on the news recently about the heat, such as to drink plenty, stay indoors in middle of the day, check on elderly and vulnerable neighbours. It has been even hotter in some other parts of America, and several people have died from the heat in some areas. And there have been several tropical storms and hurricanes battering the Florida and Georgia regions, apparently more than normal for so early in the season. I know India had record-breaking killer heat earlier this summer, and have just had killer floods from excessive rain, and England has had a heatwave as well.
It has to make you worry about what is causing all these extremes, and what we can do about it. If we are not too late already.
4 Comments:
I'll get to it, the day after tomorrow. Just kidding, it is a little worrying. We cannot even recycle in this area, due to our crappy apt management company!
Just supporting my baby :-)
Every year seems to be getting worse and worse. It's a terrible sign for the future. d:(
And I dont mean to sound ... condescending ... in any way, but I'm impressed with your usage of 'Fehrenheit' instead of still translating to 'Celsius'. You're becoming americanized!! d;)
I am not sure that I want to get too Americanized, but I have always understood fahrenheit better than celsius anyway, so I guess I am suited more to the USA in that way.
Yes, I have to agree with you ... please DON'T become too americanized. That would be unfortunate. d;)
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