What is with this weather ??????

[jbrooks]

  It's so cool and cloudy outside when should be Hot, Hot, Hot   I just don't get it......is it really global warming    "They" are calling for rain this next few days


Hey where are our other smilies, I see them but how do you use them.....Oh Terrie or Sue !!!

[Goalie]

we are still working on them Brooks. if you click on view all smilies it will show you all of them and you are suppose to be able to click on the one you want and it is put in place. However only some are working for us.

[Bara]

Cloudy and cool? Here we have all four seasons in a single day. It's a Shetland thang. Makes it difficult to know what to wear. Wish we all could be California girls!

[niaru]

Well it's HOT HOT HOT here and HUMID HUMID HUMID and I HATE it!

[Bara]

Humid is NOT good. My ex is from Malta and we spent a lot of time there. Awful! I grew up in Africa (as you know) but I never have been so uncomfortably hot as I was in Malta. Humidity. Wringing wet. Nasty.

[adcooper]

Bara, that's disappointing. I imagined Malta with lovely sea breezes. Sigh....

Yes, Brooks, it's hard to get a big picture of general climate change when the daily weather varies so much! I'm so grateful for the nice spring and early summer we've been having. Last year's drought has not been forgotten in our region! When you get rain do you get interesting desert blooms? I don't know your part of the world at all!

[ZenRider]

Rotating from hot and muggy, storms, to nice occasionally. Today it's rain. Actually, likely most of the week when it's not going to be just hot and humid.

Many of the hay fields have only been brought half in, though perhaps some of the hay guys have done better then others. As is the case for my barns field they got half in, but a nice half in. They only have enough racks to do half at a time. If we ever get a dry week (hopefully next week) the rest will be stalky, but hopefully dry. Stalky is not desirable, but usually not that bad. At least it's only half the field, we've had some years the whole first cut was stalky due to weather. Only the older horses that have a hard time chewing won't like it anyway. One of the neighbors pushed their luck and cut to bale on the weekend. Don't blame them for baling and getting it off the field at that point, as dry weather isn't likely to happen enough this week, but, well, I don't think I'd put it in a barn. Hoping it was drier then we think it was.

Here's to some nice weather.

[Bara]

No, Ann, Malta is a volcanic island. There's only one 'silver sands' beach on the island - St Paul's. The rest .... Gozo is lovely, though.

Malta is interesting, though. Valletta, the underground War Rooms. It was categorised as 'the front line' during WWII. That meant that British women couldn't serve there. So the young Maltese girls volunteered, lying about their age to meet the English airmen...

That's how my 16-yr-old MIL met Charles' dad. The rest, is literally, history. She once told me they were trapping and eating rats before the troops came.

Malta is documented as 'the most bombed' territory in history.

[ZenRider]

So much for nice weather. You should have seen the wall cloud that went over my barn when I was getting Zen ready for a short ride. Wow. I've seen some scary clouds, trying to rotate, and I do prefer when they don't go straight over my horses and I. Too bad I didn't have my good camera, it was pretty cool. Thankfully it kept going and nothing really came of it aside from some horizontal rain.

More of the same forecast for the rest of the week. 90's with a chance of storms. Ugh. What happened to mostly dry June's with lots of 70* days?