I don't understand why people (including two neighbors last evening) feel the need to mow their yards in this humid hot nightmare. We haven't mowed for probably four weeks at least, and it's not worth dying over.
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I may have pushed the limit a bit. Took the dog to the park around noon. We stayed mostly in shade, but when we got to the empty beach (thanks school!), I decided to take off my hiking boots and just go in with him. We were both dry by the time we got back to the car. I am beat now and we barely went 1.5 miles. Lake water wasn’t very cool at all, but it probably was just enough to keep me from overheating.
You're just playing with it if you've showered 3 times already.
Too many variables to say. Depends on how heavy they are, the plane and how much power it produces and of course wind. So the wind would actually help them as at least here at CID the wind is 230 at 14 gusting to 19 so only 40 degrees off the runway and at a decent clip so that will make up for some of the lost air performance.
My wife just texted that they lost commercial power at St. Lukes (CR hospital)
Officially 100 for Des Moines. Heat Index of 115 is now in the Top 5 hottest all-time.
Yup. L&D. Not seeing any other reports so I am guessing it was fairly isolated.
Eh, for my part, we've had enough rain things are green and growing. We're basically a day behind Iowa weather so this is going to continue for another couple days. It's a new lawn this year and it came in pretty well. I didn't bother mowing the front. It can wait. I tried mowing at 6am, but it was super wet grass.
If it’s going to be this hot outside, it may as well reach 100. Feels like it accomplishes something. 99 just sounds like failure
Yeah, outside of the last few days it's been a fairly pleasant summer. A little dry but not anything to scream about. The grass is still green enough and growing. However when it's like this I wait until evening even if it's still hot. Being out of the sun makes a world of difference.
