Unprecedented. Raleigh, NC - forecast highs - our weather is about to jump the shark...

It is so dry here, we have to water the garden daily.

Glad they've already set lots of fruit - and thanks for asking!

on the fine. It ain't pretty.

but it is going to take a lot of work and some luck!

will cook right on the vine. Ask me how I know.

And that 105F ain't nuthin'. Come talk to me when it tops 115F.

when I used to grow in my soil, I had a real issue with it, which is why I moved to pots.

don't have air conditioning or are homeless in your state? Here in the Detroit area they do when there are so many consecutive high temp days.

I am not going out of the house because my car A/C conked out.

and shrubs, and the tree leaves will curl up and brown. Our vegetation isn't up for this kind of scorching heat.

Hostas, and new Jap Maple that is already stressed.

But I'm certain it cannot handle 105-degree heat - at least not 4 days of it.

I'll be out watering at 9 at night. The only good thing about this is that it will force me indoors to work on a project I've been putting off for months: two rooms' worth of window treatments. Ugh, those poor people who work outdoors.

But if this continues for the next 60 days, may as well forget it.

Time to wake up the anti-climate change folks.

Do not want.

they add another degree or two to the last one.

OMGawd.........not good for man or beast.

...They may not have AC, some will refuse to open windows. All people need access to water and a place to cool down.

So nothing to worry about.

is working on a constitutional amendment, just to be extra safe.

Will legislatures pass laws regulating things like modulus of elasticity or mechanical resonance? Let the GOP get into power and they'll tell those mechanical engineers a thing or two about how bridge construction should be done!

How about antibiotics? I can hear it now: "Doctors need to stop talking about the evolution of drug-resistant bacteria!"



I've got news for the science deniers: neither the ocean nor the bacteria give a damn what laws you pass.

it is the leaves' way of conserving surface area. I've had to get over this - I deeply water my garden, then with the heat of the noon day sun, the cucumber plants, tomato plants, etc visibly wilt. It's OK - once the sun goes down they will recover just fine.

What will kill the plants is an extended period of wilt/dry - if the heat of the day makes the soil dust dry, but the plants aren't watered that evening.

so get the plants watered well in the morning - if you have time after the really hot days, top the plants off a bit in the evening. Once the sun goes off them, they should look good.

Hydrangeas do look particularly bad on a hot afternoon...but they will perk up.

Keep the faith, everyone - but as many mention, the most concern is pets, elderly, homeless. This will be a very difficult stretch to endure.

And there is always that chance that the weatherman is wrong!

--> a hopefully unnecessary

It's not global warming - it's GOD's WILL. We're all gonna be in his company eventually anyway - Right? Why not just kick back and trust that he'll do what's right by his "children".
You know - he's implementing famine in Africa. Maybe it's a "fast-track" for souls to join him in heaven, no? Maybe he's giving us the same "welcome home".

that it will be very happy to be rid of us at some point...then it can reequilibrate...we were speculating what sort of life form will survive and take things to the next stage!

The last two days were really gorgeous, but tomorrow and the weekend look really awful. Hoping my parents' A/C doesn't go out like it sometimes wants to (they're both in their 70s).

Wisconsin ain't looking so bad about now.