Community Chat

[MamaWick]

[soonersis]

It's 105 in Irving with a heat index of 110.  Our ac can't keep up and it's a new unit!

[spiderw]

Funny!  However, it isn't funny or healthy that it is so hot.  I hope you are keeping cool and getting through each day knowing relief will come!!!!  Stay well!

[Kachina624]

@MamaWick    The first summer I lived in Midland, unofficially it got up to 120°.  It was a few degrees less at the airport outside of town.  Summers in West Texas were miserable, so I left.  Its supposed to be about 93° in Albuquerque today.

[Kachina624]

@MamaWick    You should've read this famous old quote before moving there.

"“If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent Texas and live in Hell” (Philip Sheridan) "If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent Texas and live in Hell” is a famous statement of U.S. General Philip Henry Sheridan in 1866."

[Zernia Rose]

It is 90 plus in my community. Farmers desperately need sustained rain. There is also the possibility of planned power reductions to prevent blackouts.  Unfortunately all the articles, science based, indicate that we can expect earlier, hotter, and longer periods of heat over wide swaths of the country along with more severe rainstorms and hurricanes.     We know that these conditions bring drought internal migration and immigration to areas that are more temperate, have more water sources, and less drought, famines, etc.  I expect that western states will increase the frequency of their lawsuits seeking to tap into the Great Lakes.

[Tinkrbl44]

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@Zernia Rose wrote:

It is 90 plus in my community. Farmers desperately need sustained rain. There is also the possibility of planned power reductions to prevent blackouts.  Unfortunately all the articles, science based, indicate that we can expect earlier, hotter, and longer periods of heat over wide swaths of the country along with more severe rainstorms and hurricanes.     We know that these conditions bring drought internal migration and immigration to areas that are more temperate, have more water sources, and less drought, famines, etc.  I expect that western states will increase the frequency of their lawsuits seeking to tap into the Great Lakes.

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@Zernia Rose 

When I was a kid I recall a story about airplanes being able to "seed the clouds" to make it rain.  The farmers' crops would survive.

This is a vague recollection, and maybe I don't have the story right.

Having said that, I guess that wasn't really effective because, if true,  they would "seed the clouds" over large forest fires to put out the fires ... right?

[Cakers3]

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@Tinkrbl44 wrote:

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@Zernia Rose wrote:

It is 90 plus in my community. Farmers desperately need sustained rain. There is also the possibility of planned power reductions to prevent blackouts.  Unfortunately all the articles, science based, indicate that we can expect earlier, hotter, and longer periods of heat over wide swaths of the country along with more severe rainstorms and hurricanes.     We know that these conditions bring drought internal migration and immigration to areas that are more temperate, have more water sources, and less drought, famines, etc.  I expect that western states will increase the frequency of their lawsuits seeking to tap into the Great Lakes.

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@Zernia Rose 

When I was a kid I recall a story about airplanes being able to "seed the clouds" to make it rain.  The farmers' crops would survive.

This is a vague recollection, and maybe I don't have the story right.

Having said that, I guess that wasn't really effective because, if true,  they would "seed the clouds" over large forest fires to put out the fires ... right?

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@Tinkrbl44   Only certain types of clouds can be seeded whether for rain or snow.

As far as seeding for wildfires - the clouds in those areas contain ash from the fires and that hinders cloud seeding.

I don't know all the science behind it but there is also concern regarding the environment including the substances used for seeding leading to increased acid rain.  After seeding can also escalate warmer temps.

[Northray]

Not just Texas tho.  I was just in New Orleans and at one point I looked up to the sky and actually saw droplets of suspended water.  Never seen anything like that in my life.  That humidity there is no joke.  I'm so over Summer.