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Last few days have heat indexes of 105 or more ( today is 107) and the pop up thunder showers have missed us.
I have the A/C in both parts of the house going full tilt, it is STILL 80 in the house.
a minute ago, a pop up storm came over, and it is raining.
I opened the door, stepped onto the porch and held my arm out to feel the rain.
It is warm.
As in morning shower warm. If it were not for the lightening, I could take a comfortable shower in it.
gloom.........
But still and all...I am thankful we are not in Arkansas, which has had severe storms for days now.
madamesilverspurs
(15,803 posts)We're still recovering from last fall's floods (northeast Colorado). Now the snowmelt is happening and the rivers are doing their thing. Earlier this week the newspaper ran a photo of one of city councillors, who lives just north of downtown, fishing in his driveway whence he caught a 10 pound carp.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)I have a friend back in Puget Sound who is an avid skier, and she reports not enough snow in the Cascades...which is seattle's drinkiing water.
She calls herself "a ski refugee", having to go to Montana to find snow.....
madamesilverspurs
(15,803 posts)My sister and nephew, both avid skiers, had to switch out their skis to adjust to the snow that is much wetter than Colorado's.
As for here, it's so different from what it used to be. When I was a kid, we made skating rinks in the back yard; that ice would last Oct-March. Now we get a storm here and there, but not the months-long protracted winter that we used to get. It's been thirty years since I last bought snow tires or chains. I bought my first front-wheel-drive vehicle four years ago, I still haven't found out how it drives differently in snow. We'll get a blast of snow and ice, two weeks later we'll be in the furnace. 100-year events and 500-year floods are becoming almost routine.
Meanwhile, our 21 thousand fracking wells are pumping garbage into the air and water. The number of respiratory cases my doctor sees has increased to a scary degree. Bag limits on game fish have been cut in half due to weird diseases and angling pressures, livestock in fracking areas are showing some bizarre symptoms. And we had an earthquake last week, rare in the extreme for this part of the state.
Yesterday there were three tornados in the county. We're presently under a tornado warning for another half hour. It's chilly, we've had rain, some small hail to the west and golf-ball sized hail to the north and east. A number of homes have been flooded, streets closed due to the Poudre River being above flood stage for days. They're now warning of a bad mosquito season due to all the standing water we're going to have.
We've been in drought for some time, yet our protests about each fracking well's consumption of millions of gallons of unredeemable water fall on deaf ears. It irritates that a small portion of the mountain snowmelt comes from areas where river water was used to fuel the machines that make snow for skiers. Our farmers get hefty fines for pumping water from their own wells. And then we get flooded. Again.
Somehow, I'm thinking that the day will never come when we can look back and laugh about how silly we were to think that people had anything to do with that whole climate change myth.
Even so, I still wish I could share some water with you. Alas, at present it's much easier to pipeline rotten oil than clean water. Stupid, ain't it?
NMDemDist2
(49,313 posts)we're now under a (very rare) tornado watch
but it's been in the 80s all day
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Living in the humid South is the one major tradeoff we had to make with our retirement plans.
Cost of living is low, we usually have lots of sun, winers are not vicious ( not yet, anyow)
but this humidity does not make for happy joints.
NMDemDist2
(49,313 posts)Warpy
(111,261 posts)We had a front come through last night and with it clouds and humidity over 10%. Some of the clouds are large enough to produce wind gusts.
We can see the rain. It looks like it's evaporating about 500 feet above us.
Dammit.
Stuart G
(38,427 posts)and I tried to trade it for that wonderful weather in San Diego with a friend who is living in a drought. While he would take it, it wouldn't work somehow..
WillyT
(72,631 posts)From drought-stricken California.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)then it started raining last fall, and we had rain and clouds and more rain, almost daily, up until last week.
So I am happy that we are gettng the moisture, and in time for the cotton and the corn...and the watermelons!