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Ontario, Canada.

4:45pm and as I look up to the sky I can see the outer cloud bands of what was once Dennis. Unfortunately we are in need of rain and this Low pressure area is weakening faster than the number of vine borers buzzing about LanTerra.

Help, anyone I need relief from this oppressive 94*F heat blast furnace. The AC unit decided to crap out yesterday just as I decided to spend 700.00 on car repairs. Now the water meter is spinning faster that the turbines under Niagara Falls. And the cost gasoline has skyrocketed as record electrical use churns out the smog in the ever more polluted Sky's.

My plants are flagging. I think I need a rain dance or something. Mother is it hot out there. So hot in fact I think you can hear the corn grow at night.

7/12/2005 4:57:58 PM

Follansbee, Wv

The only rain dance I know is the one-legged Indian rain dance. It's simple to learn:

Walk barefooted out onto a concrete sidewalk. Drop a 2-1/2 pound ball peen hammer from a hight of 4 feet directly onto the big toe of your left foot. The rest takes care of itself :)

94° here as well, and no end in sight. We might get a little from Dennis, but it doesn't look good.

Where the hell is MY hammer...

7/12/2005 5:26:39 PM

Puyallup, WA

How about sending some of that heat this direction? We have been in the low 70's and there is a forecast that we might hit 80° by this weekend! Most folk out West are about five days behind last year.

7/12/2005 5:41:30 PM

Okla

wow 94 is a cool spell here,,,, can't get over you guys thinking 94 is hot... LOL

7/12/2005 6:01:47 PM

New Jersey

It's hot here too... But we did just get a BUNCH of rain from the last tropical disturbance...

It's kinda funny tho... I hadn't been dancing.. Musta been somebody else :)

7/12/2005 6:23:49 PM

Montoursville, PA

No rain in June. Four inches last week followed by the heat you all are talking about. Whew. My thirty bales of mulch hay look like Mt. St. Helens just waiting for some wet back labor, to move them up hill and back, to the patch.

If I had no irrigation I would be toast, for sure. Now the dern things are growing like wild fire.

Ordinary things like a foot a day and a couple inches a day, on the still to be proven pollinations seem, to be missing.

Then, to my udder amusement, some clown no one knows from the circus, of criticism and unknowns, assures me I have been doing it all wrong.

I just hardly know how, to deal, with all the good time and joy of a normal situation.

7/12/2005 6:25:37 PM

Rexburg, Idaho

Current tempurature is 98 degrees. Warmest in 3 years for here. Supposed to be 102 tomorrow. The kicker is that it was 44.1 degrees this morning. 54 degree spread. Can't get the warm nights and the days are too hot.

7/12/2005 6:46:52 PM

Simi valley, ca

GESSS you guys after may we dont even give rain a thought here, untill maybe a copple months after weighoff !! all the hardware stores sell impactsprinklers, ya know !!! that colorado river must have a lot of water !!! well not by the time it gets to mexico!!

7/12/2005 7:55:39 PM

Simi valley, ca

Hey now i know why my mexican wife married me, shes trying to stop me from growing A Gs--- so mexico can receive some water !!!! AUUUUUUUU ok i see

7/12/2005 8:00:08 PM

Minnesota([email protected])

This is about the forth straight day of 90+ temps. here, and the forecast calls for five more 90+ days.
I welcomed the rain we got this afternoon, after a fairly long dry spell.
I can't imagine what it's like with no rain during the growing season Fissssh.

7/12/2005 8:22:41 PM

I'm hearing you kahuna. This heat is sweltering and since I live and work on a farm we have been irrigating the onions like crazy, and I have been out walking in the black fields switching guns. It's bad! Fortunetly for my plants I have 4 inch aluminium pipes with 3 sprinklers capable of shooting 30 ft approximetly. The whole line is hooked up to a pto pump with a tractor sucking water from the draniage canal at about 25 to 50 psi. I can put an inch of water in an hour on my plants, which helps them get a fast morning drink and keeps them cool throughout the day. On the plus I am not using precious ground water rather circulating river and lake water from the marsh soil to the canal to lake simcoe. I don't meen to brag about my system and I wish everyone could have one, just wanted to tell people of it.

7/12/2005 9:39:07 PM

Puyallup, WA

I can't imagine anyone trying to grow AG's in hot weather without an adequate water source. When the temps exceed 90° then it pays to have shade cloth and/or misters.

7/12/2005 9:42:03 PM

Oh yes and to add to Thomas, 94'f is hot just as temperature and you might be used to it but if you throw in Smog and Heavy high Humidity you get temperatures feeling over 105'F as our sweat can't evaporate and plants flag and stress because they can't transpire. Without smog and humidity 94'f wouldn't be so bad.

7/12/2005 9:42:29 PM

Follansbee, Wv

Lisa, Lisa, he asked for a rain dance, not a hillbilly cure. My recipe calls for virgins...I mean virgin chickens....now where the hell is my dang hammer???

7/12/2005 10:11:51 PM

Phoenix, AZ

Wusses....

We saw 115 F today.

7/12/2005 11:50:34 PM

Puyallup, WA

Oh Baby! If that won't curl leaves.....nothing will!

7/13/2005 1:32:26 AM

Phoenix, AZ

Stan,

I have noticed that even our native plants this year are stressed from the constant 108 F and above weather for the last 3 weeks.

Can't wait for October.

7/13/2005 1:47:58 AM

Mill Bay, British Columbia

Not to worry Stan, our PNW weather is about to change and we can count on 10 days of good weather (Andy Dopler says so) before we see some wet and cool again for a few days. Funny to read about heat waves when we have had such wierd weather here.

7/13/2005 1:58:47 AM

Nashville, TN

This is how I get rain:

Wash each vehicle - one per day... wax them, then leave them out with the windows down.....

Leave some fresh bales of hay out in front of the barn..

Spray your fertilizer/pesticides on the garden..

Spray the weedkiller that needs 12 hours of no rain - on your entire driveway/arena.. use the real expensive stuff!

Plan to Bushhog.. Plan to weedeat... plan an outdoor cookout with no tents..

We're still in rain deficit, but we're finally getting Dennis to stall out and sit over us with it's slow drizzle! (sorry Canada....)

7/13/2005 7:45:39 AM

Ohio

Baaaaa HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

7/13/2005 10:37:55 AM

Ontario, Canada.

Monty you crack me up............

7/13/2005 3:49:44 PM

Ontario, Canada.

96 today and waiting for the friggin non-existent t-storms the weather guys are calling for. Radar in fact shows some Storms approaching at 4pm it sadly may be to late into the day to arrive in time to cool my Pumpkin Plantation of Pure and Perceived Misplaced Pleasurement.

http://www.intellicast.com/Local/USLocalWide.asp?loc=kbuf&seg=LocalWeather&prodgrp=SevereWeather&product=1kmStormWatchLoop&prodnav=none

7/13/2005 3:56:41 PM

Ontario, Canada.

I have heard thunder most of the afternoon but only a few drops fall...............

7/13/2005 7:54:20 PM