Just checked the local weather and it is 104* and heat index is 110*!!
every thing looks melted outside.. most evey thing is wilting.. Supose to be hotter tomorrow!!!!! and not supose to cool down till Saturday.. after this the 86* forcast for Saturday will feel cool..
Hope everyone is staying out of the HEAT as much as possible!!
Be safe all and drink plenty of fluids!!

Gina *BabyBlue*

that's right Gina. We need to drink water a lot. Yesterday it was hot and very humid, was perspiring as we harvested the Shiro plums.


Here's our century marks last month:
From my backyard in Davis:
Date------ Max- Min- Wind Dir-Spd-- ETo-- Solar- soil temps, etc
06-16-2006 101 63 N 8 0.37 721 73 70 65.2 14.2
06-17-2006 100 64 S 6 0.33 729 74 71 63.5 13.1
06-18-2006 95 55 S 7 0.31 722 74 72 79.0 26.7
06-19-2006 92 52 NW 4 0.26 717 74 71 83.4 23.6
06-20-2006 100 53 S 5 0.32 724 74 72 80.2 14.9
06-21-2006 102 64 NW 9 0.41 738 74 72 70.4 11.0
06-22-2006 103 69 N 8 0.39 739 75 72
06-23-2006 104 62 N 5 0.33 721 76 73 74.6 12.5
06-24-2006 102 59 S 5 0.30 677 77 71 73.4 24.0
06-25-2006 101 59 S 5 0.29 687 72 63 83.8 28.0
06-26-2006 103 63 S 5 0.31 677 74 71 78.4 22.0

And yesterday we hit 106.
07-16-2006 106 67

And all our forecast in the next 10 days are all above 100 deg F!
07-17-2006 105 70
07-18-2006 104 72
07-19-2006 101 71
07-20-2006 102 72
07-21-2006 105 71
07-22-2006 104 71
07-23-2006 101 69
07-24-2006 103 70
07-25-2006 104 71
07-26-2006 101 72

Oh man, we're toast! Literally.

So I am holding out sending the budwoods to you folks!

Regards,

Joe

It was heat index 105 here also, yest & esp today...too hot for me. I had to paint ceiling & walls in sunroom Sat & yest (having friends over for lunch in few days) It was about 100* & humidity was 70%. Changed soaking wet clothes 2 times. Came inside to AC often & drank a TON of water. I couldn't pee all day ...it just got sweated out.

no problem on that Joe.. I'd rather get them and them NOT be cooked..
another HOT HOT DAY!! YUCK!!! so humid you could SEE it in the air!!! cut the air with a butter knife!!!
Sorry no new pics.. just too dang hot to get out for long enough to get any good ones.. Night pics don't turn out so nice..
Gina *BabyBlue*

OH man Patty your so lucky .. Hmmm
when i was a Construction Road Flagger i had to stand 8-14 hrs and not allowed to pee . unfortunatly it was winter and id drink Coffee to stay warm .

best Idea i had was to take a athletic Suporter and a Plastic fish tank hose and combind the 2... Talk about uncomphortable but yet to hold the potty would ruin my System ...

Its gonna be worse next weekend late 80's-90s here in Oregon on the coast so I worry about you all Tammy

My goodness Joe your high-lows are much cooler than us
down here in Merced and Fresno. The last few evenings
our low temps are still in the low 90's - high 80's even at
midnight.

How many Shiro Plums are you growing?

Snickles

Shiro plum is one of the major branch of my 36-n-1 Euro-Asian plum tree. I've got close to 100 lbs of fruit from it harvested already, with about 25 lbs remaining.

108* heat index 110*..... lows have been upper 70s..
I hear the south pole is nice this time of year!!!!

My AC can't keep up.. is starting to get rather warm in the house..

Thankfully tonight it starts cooling down a bit.. and should be upper 80s as highs this week end..

Gina *BabyBlue*

Today is upper 70's but still very humid..we got lots of needed rain last 2 nights.
Central AC question to anyone that knows. Last Sun (ex), temps outside were 98* & humidity 58 -60%.
Inside temp was 78* & 68% humidity.
Shouldn't there be less humidity inside? I just got central AC Last year & didn't use it much then till recently. Seems there's something wrong here. I'm calling the AC place.

Any kind of air mass, if you cool them down, that air mass humidity increases. If you cool the air mass down further, it will reach saturation (100% RH) equal to the wet bulb temperature of air, and condensation (aka dew) forms.

The opposite works true. if you increase the air's RH, its temperature will lower. This is the principle of misters and evaporative cooling.

Didn't call AC people yet but, they told me central ac will draw out the humidity much better than a window ac. Supposed to cool & dehumidify. My sister in Az. has a "swamp cooler" It cools the house down with mist, but is nothing like a AC & MUCH cheaper to run.

I miss swamp coolers..
AC (window units at least) cool by condensating humidity from the room air.. the humidity condensates on the fins and as air runs past cooler air results.. the humidity is collected at the bottom of the unit and (hopefully if installed properly) runs out the back to out side.. if the unit is tipped to far forward the result is a WET MESS on the floor..
a mistake one makes only once!!

I don't know about central H&A.. I'll ask my brother next time I talk to him..
Temps aren't tooooo overly bad today!!! down right nice compared to earlier this week.. was cloudy all day though..
Gina *BabyBlue*

Central air is the only way to go. It is must have down here...

I have one large unit that sets outside, that is both the heater during the winter and then is also the air conditioner during the summer. Great unit. Although, AC is not a must here in Colorado (5,440 Ft at my home) it still is a nice extra. I've been to Laaz's house in N. Charlston, it is a nice very nice place. - Millet