How's the Weather Where You Are?

My eyeballs have been sweating for the last two or three weeks. According to the local meteorologists, they are going to continue to sweat probably clear through August. That is because the super El Niño is seriously affecting the southeast United States.

@Faye Fox I would be happy to send you some of our rain as we are out of a drought by this time. Except for today, it has rained every day for the past week. I am very appreciative of the rain, but combined with the humidity, the grass never literally dries out and is starting to smell on the moldy side.

However, they say that means we should have a drier winter to look forward to. Drier is by whose definition.🙄🙄
 
My brother lives in NE Ohio, about 80 minutes below Lake Erie. He said there was a hazy orange fog this morning . His area is also experiencing unusually high humidity, a good recipe for allergies.

Meanwhile where I live, south of the Mason-Dixon, the humidity is near brutal and about to get worse🔥🔥

I’ve been waiting until 6:15 PM to give the horses their supper, because the sun is going down and the barn is shaded. Even though I pack myself in ice cubes, I am still soaked from my scalp to my toenails in sweat, when I get back to the house an hour later.

Hit and miss storms are on deck for the weekend, with the feels like predicted to easily hit triple digits.

@John Brunner , I too am surprised at the drought map this week. Thankfully most of Middle Tennessee is out of serious drought issues, there are still a few areas showing dryness or mild status. For as fast as my grass is growing, my area is still showing dry on their map.
 
Rainy and cold. It has been raining every day now and the low last night was 42 F. This is normally a pleasant time of year with rain not beginning until August, but the rainy season is early this year and it is much colder than normal. They are predicting a warmer than usual winter for us this year, so we will see what the future brings. Everybody is complaining loudly about energy prices--natural gas, propane, heating oil, and electricity. If energy prices remain this high, many seniors may be forced to leave the state for more moderate climes. The highs are in the 50s F. so the furnaces or wood stoves are on most of the time.:(
 
There are scattered (splotchy) thunderstorms going through. A couple of cells formed over my immediate area, but they're only as wide as about 1/5 of the county and they're traveling through fast. So my neighbor's garden briefly got watered,. but this won't put a dent in the regional drought situation. It did cool things off. Temps dropped over 15°F real quick.
 
Still pretty hot here but down about 7 degrees. Still no rain when they keep saying it is coming. The smoke keeps coming and it worries me a bit as the ground is so dry even the weeds in the lawn like chicory that can usually handle dry weather are withering. And hubby's beautiful house is in the woods so a lightning strike there or anywhere could set off a big fire that would go on till Lake Michigan.
The last big drought we had, hubby would put water out for the wild turkeys but I have not seen any this year. Maybe they are down by lake De Nevue. Or Winnebago. My pond is still there but covered in green duck weed. I have not checked the creek. But the spring is done. The deer have moved somewhere else...
 
Trump is criticizing and threatening Canada over the wildfires and the smoke "invading" the U.S. from the north. As someone who lives in a state with a lot of wildfires, there simply are not enough resources or money to fight every forest fire in remote areas. I suspect there are no roads through most of the areas affected, so all fire fighting is done from the air. I am sure there is a lot of forest mismanagement in areas of Canada just as there are is in many areas of the U.S., remote area wildfires are just not controllable in many instances.
 
Don Alaska said:
Trump is criticizing and threatening Canada over the wildfires and the smoke "invading" the U.S. from the north. As someone who lives in a state with a lot of wildfires, there simply are not enough resources or money to fight every forest fire in remote areas. I suspect there are no roads through most of the areas affected, so all fire fighting is done from the air. I am sure there is a lot of forest mismanagement in areas of Canada just as there are is in many areas of the U.S., remote area wildfires are just not controllable in many instances.
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Don, that is standard rhetoric. Even Canada has to start somewhere. And Cali can follow please.
 
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