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pretty warm up north eh ?

HAY MAKER

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84 here with spotty showers,seems like the weather is lopsided this year .................good luck
PS but who's complainin :D
 

IL Rancher

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I think I saw 92 on a bank thermo today.. It was pretty muggy, had to spray some fence lines and was pretty much melting while I did it.. Hopefully it will take care of the giant ragweed and the hemp so I can get a better look at that fence.. Fault finder is telling me I have a fault but I can't see one.. Hpefully the 2-4D will clear things up a bit.
 

katrina

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IN the nineties here........ Second cutting alfalfala is going backwards in a hurry...... We cut some today only 6 inches tall in some areas..........
 

Canadian_Cowgirl

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In the nineties here as well, Dad cut one field yesterday, and bailed some that he had cut about 5 days ago or so at the other farm!! Its dang hott, with some humidity some days and not any others! :? Thank god for AC!!! :)
 

HAY MAKER

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Yes,strange weather pattern this year we havent even hit mid 90's usually by now we are hotter than a fire cracker in these ole TX hay fields,this year we aint even got started good,but been pretty dry today ,couple more days like today we will be cutting hay,seems like we been waiting to get started...............good luck
 

Shelly

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Hotter than hell here! Most days, not a lick of wind either to dry the sweat off of you. Can't even get this place cooled off enough at night to get a decent night's sleep.
 

DJL

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It was 84 degrees in the shade here today, and still feels like it tonight. This is my limit for heat; I'd make a poor desert dweller! Gotta fix a door screen (after the old dog tore it to shreds trying to escape a thundersrtorm) so we can get a decent cross breeze through the house to cool it off at night. Luckily we don't get too many nights like this where the house doesn't cool off.
 

newmexicobound

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We are having a heat wave here in good ole California. Yesterday it was 119 with a breeze that felt like a furnace. This desert is cooking :mad:
I have misters up in the chicken pen and still lost 2 of my best laying hens yesterday from the heat! It's supposed to cool down about 5 degrees today whoo hooo :roll: I hope it cools down alittle or this whole place is going to burst into flames!
 
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Anonymous

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Yep Haymaker-- you and Kola could feel right at home up here today--except the humidity (around 20-25%) would probably be too dry for Kola's dainty hide :p :lol: 104 here at the house--neighbor a mile away had 107...Out south in the breaks the official weather sites were showing 110-112...

Not even supposed to cool much tonite - only in the 70's...Not supposed to see 80's until Sunday or so.....

Just too darn hot for me.....
 

IL Rancher

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Had to go play in a ballgame tonight and even starting at 7:30 it was darn steamy out.. Coldn't believe it, sun finally went down and we are down to 72 but it will get good and toasty again tomorrow.. Surprised it isn't kicking off any storms to be honest, with all the rain we got it is dang sticky and humid.. Not much of a breeze either.
 

HAY MAKER

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Oldtimer said:
Yep Haymaker-- you and Kola could feel right at home up here today--except the humidity (around 20-25%) would probably be too dry for Kola's dainty hide :p :lol: 104 here at the house--neighbor a mile away had 107...Out south in the breaks the official weather sites were showing 110-112...

Not even supposed to cool much tonite - only in the 70's...Not supposed to see 80's until Sunday or so.....

Just too darn hot for me.....

LoL maybe kola likes that kinda heat but not me,been a few years back we had a heat wave like the one that is in your area now,I remember opening the door to walk outside and it was like walking into a blast furnace.
You better stay inside drinking plenty of fluids,till this thang moves on :D
good luck
 
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You better stay inside drinking plenty of fluids,till this thang moves on

Good advice there Haymaker- I might just take it ...Especially since their is nothing I HAVE to do today- and it's supposed to cool back into the 80's by tommorrow....

Wierd Wierd weather...Last night an unpredicted thunderstorm moved thru...No moisture- just wind and lots of lightning...Too early for these dry storms- several places in the state set new alltime record highs...Could make for a long long fire season....

This storm really was weird- as when it moved in at 10PM the temp went UP from 84 to 97 :shock: :shock: Never got below 77 all night... :(

Looks like we better get used to it :roll: Texas may get a break....

Summer ForecastUpdated: Saturday, July 07, 2007 7:53 AM A Long, Hot Summer is On the Way "Air Conditioners will be Getting a Workout," Says AccuWeather.com's Bastardi STATE COLLEGE, PA (May 16, 2007) -

AccuWeather.com Chief Long-Range Forecaster Joe Bastardi and his team expect this summer to be hotter than normal across a large part of the nation, including the most heavily populated areas of the Northeast. While a broad swath of the country will experience close to average levels of precipitation from June through August, the Southwest and Rockies will see below-normal rainfall, continuing the threat of wildfires in the region. The Southeast, already contending with raging wildfires, will likely see little relief until tropical storms and hurricanes bring moisture as the season progresses.

Said AccuWeather.com Director of Forecast Operations Ken Reeves, "Whenever you start talking about a hotter-than-average summer in the Northeast, especially the middle and late summer, you have to consider the hit that consumers will take to their wallets and pocketbooks as they are forced to cool their homes and businesses longer and more often." Reeves added that effects on consumers would be muted should energy prices fall.

It is in the second half of the summer that most of the Northeast, the Great Lakes region, and the Midwest will experience the warmest temperatures relative to normal.

Texas will be one of the few exceptions to a hotter-than-normal summer.

Bastardi and his team are basing the AccuWeather.com Summer Forecast in part on parallels they see to conditions that existed in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. "During that time, torrid heat waves were common across the United States, and hurricanes attacked our coasts more frequently," he said.

"There is a very impressive resume of nasty weather events that occur whenever we see a transition from warmer-than-normal waters in the tropical Pacific to near normal or even cooler ocean temperatures, such as we're seeing now," added Bastardi. "The overwhelming majority of these events are hurricanes or extreme heat and, in about half of the years, both cause major disruptions."

While some may be quick to ascribe this summer's potentially extreme weather conditions to global warming, Bastardi warns against this. "The weather events that occur in individual seasons don't provide conclusive proof of global warming," he said. "Also, conditions this summer will be similar to the summers of the 30s, 40s, and 50s, and no one attributes the severe weather that occurred then to human-induced global warming, particularly since we entered a period of cooler temperatures soon thereafter."

As for the summer's precipitation forecast, Bastardi detailed that most of the nation will experience near-normal rainfall, other than the wildfire-prone Southwest and the Rockies. The Great Lakes area, Texas, and peninsular Florida are projected to receive above-normal levels of precipitation.

Said Bastardi, "While the Southeast will experience close-to-average rainfall amounts, we don't expect any significant relief from the ongoing drought until hurricanes and tropical storms bring additional moisture later in the summer. Though, of course, when you're talking about the possibility of hurricane strikes, that arrival of moisture is a double-edged sword."

Bastardi pointed out that the Southeast is the prime target for this year's hurricanes, as detailed in the AccuWeather.com Hurricane Season Forecast released on May 8, 2007.

http://www.accuweather.com/news-story.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0&article=8
 

HAY MAKER

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Texas is getting a break,this weather we are having is more like what we have in april,had more rain this morning,usually in july we are winding the hay baling down .This year we havent got started good,strange stuff
good luck
 

Faster horses

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Our horse-training friend that lives in Aubrey, Texas called and his
temp's have been lower than ours. Funny thing...and he said they
have had 53 inches of rain in a pretty short time.

I noticied on tv that it was 102 in Missoula, Mt.
I have never heard of it being that hot in Missoula. We lived
80 miles east of Missoula for 18 years and it never reached
100 degrees ever.

Weird, weird weather.

OT, did the hay come back there, after the bad storm? Is there
going to be much haying done? I've sure been thinking of the
folks there and what devastation that storm caused. I hope some
hay came back.
 
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Faster horses said:
OT, did the hay come back there, after the bad storm? Is there
going to be much haying done? I've sure been thinking of the
folks there and what devastation that storm caused. I hope some
hay came back.

FH-- The alfalfa in the fields is coming back good- and probably will be ready for the (second cutting- if you can call it that :roll: ) in a couple of weeks-- we're trying to get some water on them, since this heat is taking a toll- but it is a waiting list battle to get water....

I'm not sure about the grass- if it will make much or not...May have to hope for an open winter and a long time of grazing (until Feb-March)- since on fields I got 600+ bales on last year first cutting- and expected 700+ this year- I got 42 :shock: :( ....

Thunderstorms went north and south of us last night-- got 10 drops here on the river, but a .10 up on the pasture, which was good news... At least the water holes that were dry this time last year still have good water and the springs are still running....Can't remember seeing the June grass and Grama grass so good....

So much grass/waterholes the cows don't know where to go...Cooled off today--I've been doctoring a couple footrot bulls- but they've recovered enough that it took me quite a bit of looking to find them today (Good News)-- but then I found one of the late calves that was born a couple weeks ago that the coyotes had got (just a couple hundred yards away from where I missed a big one last week) :mad: ( Bad News...)

Then I found about 50 of the neighbors yearlings in what I'm saving for late fall pasture (was 100+ in there on the 4th)- but today I found the hole in the fence in a creekbed hole that has dryed up that they're getting in at (I hope) ...Got it patched and was glad the temp was only 80 and not 100.......

Scarey thing this year is that 2 of the pastures that border me are sitting idle again this year ( big tribal argument over who has the lease, Indian preference, and illegal subleasing for profit to white men :roll: - one of the reasons I don't even look at the Indian land anymore)-- but if it keeps dry and these lightning storms, there is nothing that will stop the fires in all that grass going to waste....

Weird weather year...
 
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