California's Drought

Discussion in 'Weather & Natural Disasters' started by Frank Sanoica, Feb 7, 2017.

  1. Patsy Faye

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    And, just think, there are Seniors who move back to "old man winter"...….like we are planning on doing.
     
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    So humid here, a person could cut thru it with a butter knife! Or, like people here would say, "welcome to Florida!". Sure isn't for us anymore.
     
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    We've got 58 % humidity today... not good but a whole lot better than it has been this last 6 weeks...
     
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    It's 81 degrees here but it's supposed to reach 90 degrees in a couple of days.
     
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    It's 50 degrees right now. The temperatures went down thirty degrees when the sun went down.
     
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    Don't have a bath, just shower. I have soaked me feet in cold water, I have enclosed me feet in a wet towel - temporary
    relief as there is 'nothing' that can be done to relieve pressure and the result of this treatment is waking through the night
    with cramp - what a life ! :)
     
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    Dang it Patsy.... there has to be some sort of remedy for this
     
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    Since most of July, we've been in triple digits, with ultra-low humidity.

    That's how it is in the Desert in Summertime, boys & girls!

    Hal
     
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    Gee, Hal, how do you grow apples in those temperatures?????;)
     
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    @Don Alaska
    Despite much development agriculturally, certain plants still cling to the belief that some cold weather is necessary for them. We bought blackberry plants from a lady near here, in the desert, she had a bed of obviously not young or new plants, plenty of canes from previous years, but ours died. She had an apricot tree absolutely loaded with fruit, thousands of them! A green thumb apparently have neither of us.
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    Said in jest, Frank, but blackberries and other bramble fruits are different than apples, which generally require a chill to produce fruit. Apricots generally do not require that chill. Apples also, even if they get the chill required--not much in "Southern" apples--they will drop their fruit/blossoms if the ambient temp gets too high. That is why Washington state is known for its apples, and Florida is not, although some Southern-types may grow in northern Florida.
     
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  14. Hal Pollner

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    Apple orchards disappeared during the Depression of the 1930's because growers couldn't afford to have water pumped up to their orchards.

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    THAT is why we don't live in Apple Valley! But, then again, that heat could be better than the heat and HUMIDITY we get here.
     
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