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RAIN, Make It Stop Already !!

CrazyKittyLvr2 — Sat, 18 May 2024 19:58:26 GMT

I know there are parts of the country having truly horrible weather (tornados, flooding etc.)

Here in NEPA the weather man said since the 1st of the year we have only had 4, yes, 4 weekends without rain. I don't know when it has been this green. Even during the week it is 2 partly sunny days and three rainy ones.

It is raining now, again.

I wish there was a way to send all the rain to the states with drought conditions.

How is your weather?

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Meowingkitty — Sat, 18 May 2024 20:08:35 GMT

Arizona here. Hot (a little over 100) and will stay that way (and much hotter) darn near every day until October, dry and boring. Our only hope is for some monsoon weather in a couple of months. Bring they rain our way.

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pdlinda — Sat, 18 May 2024 20:14:49 GMT

@Meowingkitty I'm living in Arizona for 32 years!! You're absolutely correct. I completed "blackening out" my house this week to try an avoid the suffocating heat driving up my A/C cost! Agreed. This will last until October!

I noticed that last year (2023) we hardly had any monsoon activity at all. I recall moving here and having very severe monsoon rains and dust storms. We'll see what happens this year! I'm also prepared for power outages. We had brief 1 hr outages last year and the years before.

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kaydee50 — Sat, 18 May 2024 20:14:52 GMT

First summer like day here in Chicago--mid 80s, partly cloudy, bit of a breeze and low humidity. Delightful!

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CrazyKittyLvr2 — Sat, 18 May 2024 20:27:35 GMT

I cannot even entertain the idea of day after day of 100 degree or worse..

Yeah, I know it is a dry heat, So is my oven and I wouldn't want to preheat it to 110 degrees and sit in front of the open oven door all day, every day.

I can't tolerate high heat and humidity.

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catter70 — Sat, 18 May 2024 20:32:18 GMT

I'm with you @CrazyKittyLvr2 . I'm in east central PA. I'm thinking it's gonna warm up a bit next week, then the rain starts again. Memorial Day week looks to be wet. BTW, good to see you back. Have been thinking of you and Petunia.

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CrazyKittyLvr2 — Sat, 18 May 2024 20:47:16 GMT

@catter70 Hasn't it been just a miserable depressing spring?

Thank you for thinking of me and, of course, Miss Petunia a/k/a the tiny terror. Can you believe she will be 5 in August? She is something.

I think we may have some sun tomorrow.

Have a good weekend.

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kaydee50 — Sat, 18 May 2024 20:56:08 GMT

@CrazyKittyLvr2 wrote:
I cannot even entertain the idea of day after day of 100 degree or worse..

Yeah, I know it is a dry heat, So is my oven and I wouldn't want to preheat it to 110 degrees and sit in front of the open oven door all day, every day.

I can't tolerate high heat and humidity.

Agree! I lived in Henderson, NV near Vegas for 13 years. Not only the heat but the intensity of the sun became unbearable. Never got used to it. I prefer Chicago's winters--which have not been bad at all in the 8 years I've been here--over summer in the desert!

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Nightowlz — Sat, 18 May 2024 21:04:53 GMT

That's how it was here last summer. We only had to water our lawn twice last year we had so much rain.

So far this year we have had enough rain per week not to water. That's going bye bye. Now we will have to pay a higher water bill.

We were going to install a Well but I'm not paying what they want if I have to pay more to put it where we want it??? They want to run plumbing for it across our front yard over The City's main water line. Not happening.

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sunsetbeach — Sat, 18 May 2024 21:06:55 GMT

I absolutely detest rain! April was wonderful, May has been depressing, it rains every weekend, we have a couple of sunny days, then its gray and then wet and repeat ugh! Our pool opened today and guess what, gray and rainy, just like yesterday and tomorrow is supposed to be alll day rain. YUK! I'm in central NC.

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haddon9 — Sun, 19 May 2024 01:42:01 GMT

It's rainy here in SE PA too. I have had my family come over for Mother's Day, a birthday and an anniversay all on weekends over the last several weeks and it has rained each time!

They are coming over for my birthday on Thursday (they are taking off of work!) and are going to take me somewhere....it's a surprise! Fingers crossed it won't rain!

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meallen616 — Sat, 18 May 2024 21:33:47 GMT

In New Jersey,

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Meowingkitty — Sat, 18 May 2024 21:44:48 GMT

@CrazyKittyLvr2 wrote:
I cannot even entertain the idea of day after day of 100 degree or worse..

Yeah, I know it is a dry heat, So is my oven and I wouldn't want to preheat it to 110 degrees and sit in front of the open oven door all day, every day.

I can't tolerate high heat and humidity.

That's why we don't go outside unless we have to. We hibernate in summer like others do in winter. We love winter, sping and fall. Summer can take a hike.

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Pink123 — Sat, 18 May 2024 21:57:08 GMT

Huh, try to live in Florida almost 10 months out of the year.

A nightmare. A shame I was raised here down in the south.

Good luck for the New Yorker's who want to move here to spend a whole 12 months here... Yay.

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katie1859 — Sat, 18 May 2024 22:18:45 GMT

To all the Arizona people, if it's any consolation it almost 90 in central Illinois
Tuesday will bring some wicked storms so here we go with tornado warnings again.

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Sage04 — Sat, 18 May 2024 23:19:19 GMT

@meallen616 wrote:
In New Jersey,

@meallen616 as usual, I love this. Stay out of the rain. After moving here, I kept saying, "I'm moving back to NJ" and my family would say let us know when you get there.

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Tinkrbl44 — Sat, 18 May 2024 23:24:00 GMT

@CrazyKittyLvr2 wrote:
I cannot even entertain the idea of day after day of 100 degree or worse..

Yeah, I know it is a dry heat, So is my oven and I wouldn't want to preheat it to 110 degrees and sit in front of the open oven door all day, every day.

I can't tolerate high heat and humidity.

@CrazyKittyLvr2

I can't either, and I thought SoCal would always be tolerable.

I just heard that our summer, United States, is expected to be the fifth hottest summer on record.

God bless Air Conditioning.

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Sage04 — Sat, 18 May 2024 23:25:05 GMT

@Pink123 wrote:
Huh, try to live in Florida almost 10 months out of the year.

A nightmare. A shame I was raised here down in the south.

Good luck for the New Yorker's who want to move here to spend a whole 12 months here... Yay.

Lived in Fl for years. Our A/C stayed on all year long. Got in my vehicle, the A/C was on, go into the store and the A/C was on so I liked that.

I'm a cold weather person. Now I'm in Atlanta and the A/C is on. It's 72 degrees, and not my kind of weather. My brother is visiting our nephew in Sunrise Fl and he keeps complaining about the A/C going all day lol.

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Sage04 — Sat, 18 May 2024 23:26:51 GMT

What I don't like is watering the grass and the flowers and it rains a day or two later.

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Tinkrbl44 — Sun, 19 May 2024 00:33:43 GMT

My sister lived in Boca Raton FL for a few years and it was difficult. She hates A/C but she also isn't fond of excessive heat and humidity.

Her solution ... she kept her A/C at 80 degrees and also kept all the ceiling fans on low ... all the time. It was very tolerable.