I can't tell you how many days we have had a heat advisories we have had this summer. Today, we have yet another heat advisory until this evening. I am one of those guys who see weather in trends; instead of those who say every day is an extreme. Summers are supposed to be hot. Where would we be if summers were cold (obviously, at one of the poles). Our summers usually don't get hot until late July through the first of September. This year we had heat indices over 100 in June! That is truly unusual! I am sure we have had equally hot summers but I don't remember. The record breaking days were back in the 70s, so the trend appears to be every 35-40 years. We'll have to wait and see how that develops.
There are some things to note about hot summer. It's been dry so mosquitoes have been far and few in between. The dry ground has been detrimental to fleas. Flies haven't been too bad either. That was until last week when we had rain. Both the mosquitoes and flies made an appearance, but are fading away. Our yards have suffered greatly. My nice, pretty yard is brown in spots. I might have to do some patch seeding in the fall. At least, we have saved gas by not having to mow so much. A negative is the ticks. The hot, dry weather has been conducive to a tick explosion. They are bad this year.
Well, it's the end of July. I can't wait and see what the rest of summer brings.
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