News from the New American Dustbowl

[icepixie]

See this map? Nashville is right on that border between red and darker red--you know, the one indicating the most severe level of drought. It hasn't rained since July. No, literally, it hasn't rained since July.

The past seven days have all been 100F or above (mostly above); the nine or so days before that were all above 95F, I believe. Today we topped out at 106F.

I like it warm, but this is ridiculous!

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[sleepingcbw.livejournal.com]

The other day, New Orleans had a heat index of 126, and a town nearby had a heat index of 135. I don't understand why Chicago people are complaining.

[nickless.livejournal.com]

You guys are getting slammed, that's for sure. It's been miserable around here with 90+ temps and humidity pushing the heat index up over 100, but nothing like what you guys are dealing with.

I don't think most of us around here would mind so much if we weren't all perfectly aware that in six months, we're going to be dealing with day after day of 10 below with -50+ windchills...

Ah, Mother Nature. *grumble*

[icepixie]

The other day, New Orleans had a heat index of 126, and a town nearby had a heat index of 135.

...I'm suddenly feeling much more sanguine about the heat indices recently hovering around 110.

AUGH.

[icepixie]

Until the past couple days, the heat index hasn't been too bad; today it was 110, I think, but for most of the month it was so dry that it hovered at or a little below the actual temperature.

I actually don't mind the heat as much as I mind the lack of rain. Everything is dead, dead, dead--at least, everything that didn't die off in that freak April freeze we had earlier. It's basically been nearly drought conditions since the end of May, which doesn't help either.

You know, if we could just somehow split the continent in half down the middle and put some ocean between the halves, the interior would have much less severe weather mood swings. I think we should look into breaking it off along the Mississippi. ;)

[nickless.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that freak late freeze killed off everything here, too. My favorite bush was juuuust about to bloom, then BAM. :(

if we could just somehow split the continent in half down the middle and put some ocean between the halves

Hey, there is that whole New Madrid fault thing... We could ramp that up to Bad SciFi Movie standards and it just might work!

[icepixie]

Yeah, that freak late freeze killed off everything here, too. My favorite bush was juuuust about to bloom, then BAM. :(

Most of the trees here had leafed out already, and almost all of their leaves shrivelled up and fell off. Took about three weeks to get back to normal.

Hey, there is that whole New Madrid fault thing... We could ramp that up to Bad SciFi Movie standards and it just might work!

Hey, yeah! I forgot about that! *contemplates dynamite*

[tnbella.livejournal.com]

LMAO at you and Sarah snarking about blowing the hell out of the middle of the US, so we can get some rain already!

I don't usually like hot weather at all, but something freakish is going on with me, and I'm going to sit in the shade, in the swing under a tree in the backyard around 5:00 in the evening and play with my cats. *shrugs* I think my body is just convinced it's supposed to sweat all the time now, so it's over it. lol

*prays for rain soon*

P.S. I feel so bad for those poor people in Texas right now -- they keep getting slammed with flooding. Dear, hurricanes: Leave Texas and New Orleans alone already -- come further east and bring the rainz. kthanx.

[icepixie]

LMAO at you and Sarah snarking about blowing the hell out of the middle of the US, so we can get some rain already!

But seriously, the western edges of continents always have milder, damper climates, so it would totally work! (Well, okay, damper except for LA. And parts of Chile. BUT YOU GET MY POINT.)

I don't usually like hot weather at all, but something freakish is going on with me, and I'm going to sit in the shade, in the swing under a tree in the backyard around 5:00 in the evening and play with my cats. *shrugs*

Gaaaaah. I try to walk the dogs around 7 PM or even 8 PM, but even then it's a long, sweaty slog--and we go, like, a hundred yards before we turn around and go home.

P.S. I feel so bad for those poor people in Texas right now -- they keep getting slammed with flooding. Dear, hurricanes: Leave Texas and New Orleans alone already -- come further east and bring the rainz. kthanx.

*builds rain magnet* Right now, I would much appreciate a soaking like we usually get from the hurricanes that move inland.