Usually I'm posting about snow! Well , not in July! I think this is my first post on hot weather.
We've had record breaking temperatures in this region. In the 50 years I've lived here I don't remember temperatures above 30 C. Now I know temperatures have been above 30 but not often and I don't remember it.
So we are on our third day with a high of 35 C. Now I know some will laugh at this temperature as I know temperatures go much higher than 35. However, 35 C is an extreme for me.
Plants suffer from the heat but when we get cooler temperatures and a little rain , the plants will bounce back.
As I've said many times our annual average amount of precipitation is 12 in. (That's counting snow. ) 10 in of snow equals one inch of water.
So how do we produce huge crops? There's usually about a 1000 ft of clay below us. Very little of our precipitation will run off. Many other places have little top soil and so water runs off.
So there you have it. An explanation, although it's too brief, about soil moisture.
Now if it would only cool off! We have two more days of hot weather.
35C is 95F and that's really, really hot! I sure hope you have good air conditioning.
ReplyDeleteNo air conditioning here. we would rarely need it.
DeleteHello,
ReplyDeleteI have been hearing about the heat wave, I hope it cools off soon.
The rain is helpful! Take care, enjoy your day!
Tomorrow it starts to cool off and after that showers.
DeleteStay safe Red! Stay cool! May I suggest that you put your swimming trunks on and get Jean to hose you down in the garden and then do the same to her. This should happen five times a day until the heat departs.
ReplyDeleteNow why didn't I think of that . we could have water fights and all kinds of things. On a more serious note we have a large kids spray and splash park. Kids are really having fun.
DeleteIt's been over 40 degrees Celcius here this past week. Now I hear the heat is shifting to Alberta but not before leaving many to suffer sudden heat deaths and evacuations due to wildfires and even flooding from melting snow pack. This climate change is really too much. I hope it doesn't get quite as hot for you.
ReplyDeleteI was sad to hear that many people had died because of the heat.
DeleteYes I was very sad too and shocked to learn that it was hundreds of people not just one or two.
DeleteI live in an area with lots of clay below the thin layer of topsoil and one big disadvantage we suffer from is that because of the clay, what doesn't run off or get absorbed by plants gets quickly evaporated by the sun and winds. So one can go from a muddy mire like what we have now to bone dry with large cracks in the earth in the matter of two weeks.
ReplyDeleteIn most places we do not have a clay soil but sand or loam or a combination.
DeleteStay hydrated! Take care!
ReplyDeleteI need to be reminded about hydration.
DeleteIt will be such a relief when the temps cool off there. 35C is way too hot.
ReplyDeleteWe cool off a bit tomorrow and then get some showers.
DeleteJust saw a report on Lytton burning, My goodness.
ReplyDeleteWild fires like that are very dangerous. they move too fast.
DeleteWhen we moved to PA we found the soil was clay. Don't like it. It's hard, clumpy ... and we have radon so we have to have a radon mitigation system in the basement. But hey, if it is good for growing crops, and feeds me and my family, then I'm all for it. Stay as cool as you can!
ReplyDeleteOur soil on top the clay is sandy or loam or a combination so we don't have the clay problems.
DeleteStay safe and stay cool!
ReplyDeleteBig changes in the weather seem to be everywhere these days. This extreme heat is all over North America. Do you have air conditioning Red? I know there are many places that don't have it because they normally don't need it. Stay cool!
ReplyDeleteMost of us don't have air conditioning as it is only needed for a few days a year.
DeletePer Wikipedia: The highest temperature ever recorded in Red Deer was 37.2 °C (99 °F) on 8 July 1906, 2 July 1924, and 28 & 29 June 1937. The highest temperature ever recorded in Seattle was 42.2 °C (108 °F) on June 28 2021. Bottom line ... I feel your pain.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't running around yet when those records were set.
DeleteStay cool and hydrated, it's just too hot.
ReplyDeleteI need to be reminded about hydration. I just don't drink enough water.
DeleteThe temperatures in the west have been too high lately.
ReplyDeleteToo high and for too long.
DeleteMy computer tell me that 35 C is about 95 F and that's hot.
ReplyDeleteYour moisture holding soil is a good thing. Our soil is sand and gravel glacial till. Water just soaks right through it.
I don't think your soil has much for nutrients. Grandpa in Vancouver was a great gardener but found it to be a challenge in Vancouver.
DeleteI have to agree that it's too hot at 35. I am glad our temperatures are back to normal once again, but we have all of July and August to get through!
ReplyDeleteWe start to cool off a bit tomorrow.
DeleteThat is far too warm. You stay safe.
ReplyDeleteIt would be OK for a day or two but this has gone on for too long.
DeleteI hope, you have AC. It is hot in here as well. Thanks for the occasional rain
ReplyDeleteI don't have AC as we would need it for only a few days. Some people who have AC here don't turn it on some years.
DeleteYes, I've had enough heat. It will start to cool off tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteThat is HOT. We've had terrible heat and humidity, and are grateful for the thunder storms that break things up for a bit.
ReplyDeleteThirty five is hot, even in Sydney, where the lowest temperatures are not below freezing. I'm not surprised you're finding it hard.
ReplyDeleteI hope your cool change comes early
That's terrible heat you've got!
ReplyDeleteThat is our maximum temperature here in some summers, not all of them. But I can imagine it must feel very hot there when you are not used to it.
ReplyDeleteI wrote a comment and it went someplace else! Close the oven door cause it is getting warm here too! High of 33 C here today. Since I like the 70s F 21 C it is a warm day:(
ReplyDeleteI heart about it in the news. That is really hot!
ReplyDeleteoh i feel for you dear Red
ReplyDeletei hope rain showers and helps to take temperature low.
we are having our temperatures swinging between forty to forty seven or eight C which due to rainfall in our northern areas feel like forty to thirty eight only thankfully .
it about being used to it so true .
i want to ask if you have mailed me recently ,i got one mail ,i just saw it while ago ,it had two lines .but gmail displayed huge warning if it was not from you as it was from different address ?