It's nearly sunrise. Temp is 74, high expected to be about 95 with a heat index of 105. Nine days until summer begins.
I can't wait for peak heating in July and August. Sarcasm. 🥵
The weather man kept going on this morning about a cool front coming through tonight. Tomorrow it's only supposed to be 89. 👎 That's not much help.
They love to talk...and they never get it right! What cool front? We're looking at close to 90 tomorrow as well! Next week, a heat wave is coming! It's only June! Not much help at all! 😫
IKR, a one day drop of 6 degrees is not a cool front.
I worry about July and August. I'm assuming the string of months with record temps will continue.
@KGinKS
Exactly? Is this their new idea of a cool front? Like you, I'm worried about July and August as well! If next week is going to bring a heat wave, what is July and August going to be like? I firmly believe that climate change is advancing faster than they are letting onto. Have we passed the point of no return? I'm normally an optimistic person. I was really hoping that some major changes would have happened by now to help arrest the advancement of climate change.
I was considering getting an EV as a replacement for my car with 186k miles on it. Instead I bought another gas vehicle. I don't think my little bit of driving is going to make a difference and EVs are still to expensive.
The bad part of climate change that is going to effect us first is going to be the lack of fresh water. Reservoirs are drying up.
Sorry to sound so gloomy.
I hear you about the EV being way too expensive. Agreed. If one isn't driving much, it really isn't going to make that much of a difference. That's pretty scary about the reservoirs drying up! You would think with all of the rain we get, that wouldn't be an issue. But I guess with the extreme hot weather, it's evaporating water from the reservoirs. Just guessing on that one.
No, you aren't sounding gloomy. It's reality!
Have to wonder how the increase in evaporation stacks up against the amount of water being used for industry - bottling, fracking and such or making paper for Amazon boxes..
And no one wants to build desalination plants to convert rising sea water levels to fresh water, not cost effective, doesn't scale up well.
Major food production regions can't water crops enough to keep up with growing demand.
In Kansas the ogalala aquifer gets lower every year. Farmers water crops and provide water for cattle.
We can save water by giving up grains and beef?
It's pitiful that there are viable long term solutions, but they aren't willing to make the investment. As usual, bandaid work is being done or nothing is being done at all!
Is it going to have to take a major crisis of not having access to grains and beef, before anything is actually done? By then, it will be too late. And how many farmers and cattlemen will be forced out of business?
It's not enough for an endeavor to break even or to make a profit. It has to be obscenely profitable or these so called entrepreneurs don't want to bother.
I read a story when our local sears store was being closed. Shutdown because the store only had a 3% increase in sales. The goal was 6.
How does zero improve anything?
@KGinKS
OMG! 😱