Posted on 07/15/2021 6:41:37 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
CHICAGO (Reuters) - An unprecedented heat wave and ongoing drought in the U.S. Pacific Northwest is damaging white wheat coveted by Asian buyers and forcing fruit farm workers to harvest in the middle of the night to salvage crops and avoid deadly heat.
The extreme weather is another blow to farmers who have struggled with labor shortages and higher transportation costs during the pandemic and may further fuel global food inflation.
Cordell Kress, who farms in southeastern Idaho, expects his winter white wheat to produce about half as many bushels per acre as it does in a normal year when he begins to harvest next week, and he has already destroyed some of his withered canola and safflower oilseed crops.
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Temperature in Portland, Oregon 75 degrees at 6:40 am their time. Forecasted high 75 degerees.
Climate data for Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California
Record high °F
June 114
July 117
August 111
September 118
from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Nuys
Just so long as the hops crop makes it thru the heatwave.
That would be a difficult thing to swallow.
“extreme weather”
At some point in time more FReepers will agree with me that posting such drivel feeds right into their propaganda needs.
[Barf alert] or the like ought to be obligatory. “Unprecedented” is absolutely false and a euphemism for ‘climate change’ when used in conjunction with any weather news whatsoever.
“Weather” being the key word here. To-wit:
“Scientists have said the suffocating heat that killed hundreds of people would have been “virtually impossible” without climate change and such events could become more common.”
BARF!
How many citations of La Nina in the article?
(this is a FReeper test)
The entire Pacific Rim is engaged in a massive La Nina, but there are few to no posts on the effects in the Western Pacific.
Gee...wonder why? /s
Go ahead: Fire away. I fire back.
Came here to post JUST THIS. It was “Vegas-like” for 3 days, and the media won’t shut up about it like it’s still going on, and it’s armageddon.
and on the East coast it’s cold and raining
The hydrangeas love it. Fact is, every year we get different types of weather, it's natural.
Cool, wet summer down here in Houston.
I’m in the PNW; it was 57 this morning, looking for a high of 76 today.
If it's lack of rain it messes up their propaganda that predicts monsoons and tsunamis from global warming.
I’m in the PNW; it was 57 this morning, looking for a high of 76 today.”
Thanks for the reality posting versus the continuous “We are all going to die, B$!”, posing as news.
Actually there is no la niña at the present time. The heat wave was due to an extremely high pressure ridge combined with other weather factors. Qualified analysts reporting at wattsupwiththat have explained that this was a rather unique set of circumstances, unrelated to putative climate change.
I don’t live up in the NW, but they do have a drought.
How bad is it, I’m not sure.
Media says it’s bad.
Wildfires seem to be bad also.
In the decades I have lived here a heat wave has never lasted this long and came so early. That’s what wiped out my garden. Just a week before we covered plants to stop freezing. Within one day it was above average nearly 30 degrees and lasted until, tomorrow with one normal temp day, but then back up 15 over average for another week.
I am NOT saying it is global warming or any other such hysteria. But in my lifetime it has not happened and is bad. Add to the mismanagement of water resource (gotta save the fish) there is no water for the rest of the season. Our irrigation is already being cut in half.
Where do you live?
Exactly. There have been no such articles on this in the Oregonian or Salem paper.
Ditto. Not unusual to get a week of 100 in the summer. This year, it started early and shows no signs of letting up. (Love the smoke, too)
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