There is. Earth's magnetic field is weakening and the magnetic poles are moving. Leads to more extreme weather, not manmade climate changed.
Posted on 07/17/2022 2:55:47 PM PDT by vespa300
CURRENT WEATHER 4:53 PM
108°F Sunny RealFeel® 115° Dangerous Heat RealFeel Shade™ 112°
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Not exactly hot by Texas standards but we've had a cool and rainy spring so it's good to get some true summer up in these parts.
Also, the farm down the street just picked their first summer corn, so I have some fresh corn on the cob to go with our baked chicken tonight.
Retired a couple of years ago and the best deal I get out of Texas for three months. Back in Sept.
Yep. Unfortunately, there are a few “behind the screen badasses” on here. I just rattle their cages a little bit, laugh when they lose control and then move on. 😏
I remember last summer was cooler and wetter than usual and we didn’t hit triple digits until August. And only a handful of times at that.
I guess we’re paying for it now. 🥵
We have not had rain since June 10 and nothing but blazing sun now and as far as the forecast goes. Accuweather even took out the teasers of rain for the next three months. The wind is like a blast furnace.
In ‘ll and ‘12 we lost oak trees that were big when my grandparents lived on the farm. That didn’t happen in the drought of ‘80. Those are what makes me sick to see.
We cut hay on June 23 and I said that would be it for this year. I sold cows in the spring because I had a feeling. Sure happy not to have them now.
The last time I cut the grass was July 4. I’ll bet that is it for the summer except for a trim.
I expect that country West of I-35 to be dry and nothing but buffalo and gamma grass but not here on the edge of the Ozarks. Dallas is always hot. I’ve seen 127 in the pit of Central Expressway in a traffic jam and just hoping the truck would make it out to get some air moving across the radiator.
I flew into OKC from Midland late summer in ‘80. The ground looked like the top of an anvil it was so beat down by the sun. Getting that way fast now. Mesonet calls it a flash drought. Always something new huh?
Well, we can laugh our butts off when the snow is butt deep to a tall indian in indiana and the power lines are all on the ground from an ice storm.
There is. Earth's magnetic field is weakening and the magnetic poles are moving. Leads to more extreme weather, not manmade climate changed.
Visited Lubbock in the 80s. Wouldn’t wish that on anyone. Steady northerly winds coming off the Rockies during the winter. Must be regular. Brutal. Nothing was warm.
I believe ‘80 had 63 or 65 consecutive days of over 100 in OKC. I know that in NW Houston we did not have rain to speak of from about October of ‘10 until nearly October of ‘11. The pine forest was a tinder box and exploded on Memorial day of ‘ll in Magnolia.
Off wiki re 1980: In Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, high temperatures exceeded 100 °F (38 °C) a total of 69 times, including a record 42 consecutive days from June 23 to August 3,[4] of which 28 days were above 105, and five days above 110. The area saw 29 days in which the previous record high temperature was either broken or tied, including its all-time high when the temperature hit 113 °F (45 °C) on three consecutive days (June 26 and 27 at DFW Airport and June 28 at Dallas Love Field).
1936 was nothing to sneeze at: July was the peak month, in which temperatures reached all-time records—many of which still stood as of 2021. In Steele, North Dakota, temperatures reached 121 °F.......
It's hot. True. But it's called weather.
Ok it’s 106 in kern county CA right now
Summer of 2011 was equally dismal. It’s only 100 over here in East Texas but the humidity is 110%.
Summer of ‘80. It was my first summer in Texas and I thought they were always like that. LOL
but it is a dry heat.
We had 101 with nearly 70% humidity yesterday. The air felt like a wall. There are some clouds today but they are thin and have that Venusian look to them.
Are we in el nino or la nina now or does it matter any more?
Lived in Lubbock before many on here were born. You are correct. Was there for one of those awful winters. Will never forget it. Nothing to stop the wind. Brutal.
Ask yourself how those who came before us in Texas were able to deal with the summer. They slept with wet sheets on them. Yuk.
The joke is that the only thing between Lubbock and the North Pole are a few barbed wire fences. I was there for the record snowfall of 1983. 18” in one storm and 36” on the year. We drove around the streets in pickups with a water ski rope and snow skis on. Epic times. Adolph Coors had something to do with it.
Down in the Ouachitas you can watch the steam come off the trees when it gets like this. It just cooks. I don’t know why I ever wanted to come home to retire, thought it was family but they are mostly gone now. I have sworn for years I would never spend another July and August in Oklahoma or Texas but I still do.
The snakes seem to love it. Weather like this is when I got bit by a copperhead on the Kiamichi River surveying. Just glad it wasn’t a rattler.
The reason that you retired there is that once you get through with three months of the blast furnace that you have nine months of pretty good weather. I guess our June-September is the same as December-March for the guy in Minnesota. At least he has hockey.
We got our first AC after Kennedy was shot. Before that we just suffered through it. About ‘57 was the first really hot summer I remember. My grandparents had a big hackberry tree in the front yard we would sit under. The screen porch wasn’t horrible after about 10 or so at night. No AC in the car either.
The church was air conditioned, an old theater, big and dark with thick brick walls. It was a glimpse of heaven in the summers. I could not help but fall asleep no matter how loud Kenneth H. the song leader was. He was a piano tuner by trade and always carried a pitch pipe.
Yeah, wet sheets, yuk.
My cousin has a brewery at Snowshoe Resort in WV. The highest temp is supposed to be 80 this week. Don’t...tempt...me
Yes, I have to keep that firmly in mind. The lingering Fall and all that. I came back to the edge of the Ozarks for the seasons I remember. Mild three seasons and I seldom have to break ice for the cows but don’t care for it at all.
People revel in the Fall of New England but it doesn’t last all that long and winters can pay the price. I got really tired of the snow in Alaska but the pay back was as much summer sunlight and fair weather as you could stand.
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