Weeee are not amused....

Is it normal to have temperatures where you at 100 Butterfly?

We are in the high desert southwest US, and most summers we have a few days of 100+; but it seems they are coming earlier than usual and all strung together and more of them. Our humidity here is very low (9% reported right now), so it isn't as bad as it would be at higher humidity, but still AWFUL.

Actually my computer says it is right now being reported by the weather service at 103 outside and expected to reach 104.

Not as bad here as it is in Arizona (our nextdoor neighbor), though.
 
Today Alexa tells me that here it's 85F with 45% humidity today. She also told me that 60c is 140 F.......... nope, no way LL
In Death Valley, Ca. the hottest place on earth, it's "only" 117 with 5% humidity today. The highest recorded temp ever recorded on earth was recorded there on this very date, July 10th 1913.... 134 F or 57c. Happy we don't live there.
It's amazing the facts you can easily learn these days..

California is constantly is in drought conditions with only 15" of rain on a good year. However in 2015 we only had 7" but last year we had a whopping 26". We never get any rain in the summer..ever. We enjoy keeping our own rain records. In this part of Ca. we all are tuned into water conservation, very dry years more than others. The tap water where we live tastes horrible, and I don't drink or cook with anything but bottled water. We fill up in gallon containers from a machine that costs 35 cents per gallon...a whopping $3.50 weekly. We've learn to live with all of this because we love living here.
 
We drink bottled water also. We sometimes purchase large bottles at the store but lately we’ve been filling up at an overflow pipe from an unground stream. It’s cold, clean water that’s tested every 2 weeks by the government and it’s free and not far from where we live. It’s much better water than our well water but we usually don’t anyway.

We also get rust bacteria in our well which we have to shock treat with bleach so at time’s we can’t drink our water.

We’ve considered getting a drilled well to avoid this problem but they are costly. Either way, having fresh drinking water is essential.
 


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