Ohhhh Contrare Monfrare. It's not a dry heat like AZ, but it definatley hasn't been like what Mr.Ford has been experiencing. It's usually humid as all get out here but it has been unusually low this year, thank goodness. Besides, when it gets this hot, it's hot, dry or no dry, to me anyway. I sweat like there's no tomorrow in either. With the company I use to drive for I went to Phoenix and Calexico,Ca a lot, and then I would pack up and go to the Charlotte area and then I would go to the Dallas area and I was just as miserable in all of the places, humidity or not.

 

I started wondering about the trucks digital temperature gauge......so I bought a meat thermometer and have it strapped to the mirror bracket. It is within 1 degree of the digital gauge....and hovers around 113 most days.




Don Juan wasn't even a "Blowhard"....he was a "Never-was".

 

But........It looks like "Emily" could be a real butt kicker. If you look at the last few storms......the women usually do the heavy work.

National Hurricane Center

 

For you Texas folks, good luck. Looks like we might be back down in the '90's next week WITH some rain here in OK.

Heat waves pushes Texas power grid into red zone | Reuters

 

And Emily has spunout. I was hopin for a little bit of rain from her, maybe next time. We've seen the outrageous temps go down but the friggin humidity has been staying up there so it's hard to tell that the air temp is down. Just like last year around the same time it's back to our normal summer it looks like.

 

That's weird. The picture of our local weather board in my older post and OTG's post looks like it is changing everday, updating itself. I would have thought it would have stayed on the original day's that I had posted it because it is just a pic. Shows you what I know about computers. I guess ya'll are going to get to keep up on our weather.

 

That is pretty strange... I guess it could be the type of file your computer saved it as when you transfered it. That or the 4 Warn storm team has an intrest in the thoughts and ramblings of truck drivers. Sure hope the forecast is correct and we cool off 15 degrees with rain chances. :thumbsup:

 

I saw the storms up your way tonight. I was thinking about you the other night too. Kremlin was in the OKC news about something, I don't recall at the moment.

 

I know what it was Graintrain, the boy's that caught in the Auger in the grain elevator. Have you heard anything about them? How they are?

 

We set a new record for the month of July, and we were the hottest month in the county, I think. The average temp in July in Wichita Falls was 92.9. Might as well say, 93. That's not the average high, that's high/low combined.
I've been searching for the heat records, but I can't find it. I was going to show how many days we've had triple digits this year. I do know that we're getting close to 60 days straight of 100 + degrees. There was one day in June that it only got up to 99, for some reason. If it were'nt for that, we'd be near 100 days straight of triple digits.
We've had a little over 3 inches of rain all year. We had 2 inches the first of May, and hadn't had a drop since.

I love the summer, and I hate the winter, but I'd wish the weather would break. I'm sure we'll have another month of this. We almost did a rain dance last week. There was a hurricane (Don?) that hit near Padre, and as soon as it hit land, it fizzled out. They said the hot dry air forced it to dissipate. Maybe we can get some rain, at some point. Next several months?