Heat Wave Headed East...

[CaveCreekRay]

We are glad to pass on our ten day spread of temps north of 110. Lake Havasu was 120 yesterday.

It's looking a lot like Christmas... NOT!

It may be hot but, the scenery still is nice. Got this while riding around with my girl dogs in my Ute... Somebody has a nice view from their backyard.

Just got in from the backyard... We had a few bats making their home in my stairwell to the roof. Batscat is dang hard to clean up so, I hot glued a bunch of those bird wires up and it has worked really well to keep them away... until yesterday. The hot glue melted and most of them fell off the wall. Lol...

 

[D2Cat]

Ray, seeing those horses reminds me of riding in 90-95deg days. The idea temperature for a horse is like 55 deg. Do you folks put them in AC when it gets to 110F?

 

[Daren Todd]

It's already here. Today is supposed to be the coolest at 94. Then supposed to climb. I've been waiting for it. We are usually on a burn ban by now. But we've been running cooler and wetter so far this year.

 

[CaveCreekRay]

Len,
Sorry to say, some don't even get into shade. The way some people treat livestock makes me crazy. The spread pictured at this place is new and well done. Most barns or stall have fans and misters. My old barn had a mister system set up in the indoor stalls for the animals. Some of the boarding stables nearby are just a corral with a small 12x12 metal shade structure for 6-8 horses. Not good. Many owners have deluxe facilities for their ponies but most cannot afford that kind of luxury for their horses.

 

[sheepfarmer]

Len,
Sorry to say, some don't even get into shade. The way some people treat livestock makes me crazy. The spread pictured at this place is new and well done. Most barns or stall have fans and misters. My old barn had a mister system set up in the indoor stalls for the animals. Some of the boarding stables nearby are just a corral with a small 12x12 metal shade structure for 6-8 horses. Not good. Many owners have deluxe facilities for their ponies but most cannot afford that kind of luxury for their horses.

No shade, that's sad. Anyone could build a 4 pole open shelter.

 

[SidecarFlip]

Our lone nag (my wife's) and thew cattle have run in sheds to get out of the sun and most times they are in there.

Wife said it's supposed to get hot here again. Guess I'll be back to watering the garden. Been picking cukes and zucchini. Sweet corn is tassling and onions and taters are doing fine as are the melons but I water every 3rd evening.

Tomatoes really went up in cost. Good friend of mine has a vegetable stand and he told me bulk tomatoes doubled in price from last year.

 

[CaveCreekRay]

No shade, that's sad. Anyone could build a 4 pole open shelter.

Yeah, I sure think so but, I am not a horse person. Many do have corrugated tin shade shelters but, they are often high and small. I'll drive by on a hot day and one or two will be in the shade while three will be out in the sun. Maybe, the horses down here like heat??? I know my dogs, especially my wild reservation dog, get cold in the A/C this time of year and about three times a day she will go outside and lay on 155 degree flagstone in 100+ temps for fifteen minutes before coming back in. A friend has a reservation rescue white Lab and Jasper will do the same thing. My friend calls it, "baking the bones."

 

[skeets]

Out at the kids place, they have shaded areas, the roof is done in a louvered pattern. It blocks the sun, and when the winds come down from the mountains, the roof lets the wind threw and the tops dont get blown off. But those Arab horses of hers dont seem to mind the heat to much. NOW were it me there is an old well the ranch use to use before city water was put in, , old Dad would have a wind mill set up and pump the water to a tank and run misters for the critters,,, But thats in Ca so gawd only knows what laws that would be breaking

 

[SidecarFlip]

Guess I'll be watering my patch again.............

 

[Palmettokat]

My experience a steel roof can be hotter under it than in the sun. Steel will absorb the sunshine and can be hot enough if touched to burn you. In process of building roof over our new dog pen and will be using silver steel to help reflect what it will be but are planning on foam insulation with air gap below the steel roof to stop the heat radiation. Have to support the foam insulation or rather protect it from hurricane winds.

Wish we still have aluminum roof panels, it reflects the heat.

 

[SidecarFlip]

Today is the last 'sane' coll day here for a while.

 

[fruitcakesa]

WE finally got a string of storms coming through over the next few days. Temps back in the 70's. Comfy!
When it's dry here, it is really dry with all the greenery sucking up the moisture.
In fact in New England, fire season is in the spring when all the foliage starts to open up.

 

[Magicman]

95+ degrees is too hot and when you add the misery index it's 105+. I postponed my sawmilling until Friday to let this hot beast pass.

 

[SidecarFlip]

Here, its not so much the heat but the RH that gets you. I can do heat. Not so much humidity.

 

[Magicman]

Not heat, but my Friday customer's wife has contacted the C-19 so no sawmilling this week. I'll saw his logs later, but not now.

 

[Daren Todd]

95+ degrees is too hot and when you add the misery index it's 105+. I postponed my sawmilling until Friday to let this hot beast pass.

106 with the heat index today.

 

[SidecarFlip]

Not heat, but my Friday customer's wife has contacted the C-19 so no sawmilling this week. I'll saw his logs later, but not now.

Is he ok? You'd best stay away from there for a while.

 

[SidecarFlip]

85/92 here today. My pup is in the ac in the bedroom snoozing. I'll be there as well, shortly.

 

[Magicman]

Is he ok? You'd best stay away from there for a while.

Yup, the closest that I will get to him is the telephone.