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boggybranch said:
holy cow, it's hot!
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Yep, excessive heat warnings both today and tomorrow--96 and 97 degrees. My body and mind shut down when it's too hot. It FINALLY got cool enough outside about 7 pm last night, so I mowed the orchard and mulched my squashes there with grass clippings. THEY are loving the heat!!
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Sorry...it's 72* here...very pleasant.
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88'F and very sunny. Heat index of 92'. Thank goodness the humidity is only 46%, if it was higher we'd all be dying. As it is, it's bad. Ugh. I don't mind the heat (I love desert heat!) but high humidity knocks me down almost immediately.
Hubby and I are seriously considering Vegas for our retirement. Not the madness of the Strip, probably north or northwest, about 30 minutes from the tourist traps. Somewhere we can have chickens
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Hubby and I are seriously considering Vegas for our retirement. Not the madness of the Strip, probably north or northwest, about 30 minutes from the tourist traps. Somewhere we can have chickens
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Wildsky
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We hit 92 earlier, and then it started dropping.
Mosquito's are loving this
Mosquito's are loving this
hoodat
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That's what I like about San Diego. With the dessert only a mountain range away to the East and the ocean in our back yard our normal temperature range is 60 to 80 degrees. 90 degrees is a heat wave and 50 degrees is Winter.
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I was out in the garden for about 2 hours, and was sweating my butt off at 6:00. I am soooooo thankful to the inventor of air conditioning!!! 
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Oh but go a little into the east county and you'll know all about it!!!hoodat said:
In July 2005 I believe, it got up to 117 in El Cajon, I thought I was going to DIE!
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Finally a break from the heat!! We've got highs in the upper 70s/low 80s predicted thru Friday! 
I guess I don't have any excuse now not to clean out the chicken coop. Anyone else getting better weather?
I guess I don't have any excuse now not to clean out the chicken coop. Anyone else getting better weather?
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Mid 90's now down to upper 80's with less humidity. That is a tremendous relief.
Not that we were dry, but I measured 1.4" of rain Sunday night. Monday evening I dug potatoes and it was not in the least muddy. There was even a dry area toward the bottom of my potato hill. Since the top of the soil is now moist instead of baked, it is a great time to pull some of those weeds and grass out of the strawberries and get them mulched.
Not that we were dry, but I measured 1.4" of rain Sunday night. Monday evening I dug potatoes and it was not in the least muddy. There was even a dry area toward the bottom of my potato hill. Since the top of the soil is now moist instead of baked, it is a great time to pull some of those weeds and grass out of the strawberries and get them mulched.
