Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Nature Is A Cruel Mistress
After an unprecedented late freeze here, that damaged many things in the garden, we entered a summer-long drought (the freeze and the drought both have the same cause: a persistent dome of very dry air over the central upper midwest). Storm after storm heads towards us, then dissipates 10 miles to our west, as the front runs up against our capped bubble of heat and dryness, so that we are now officially in extreme drought, with almost unprecented heat (36 days of 90 or above, compared to two days last year). Our drought level currently is comparable to the dust bowl years of 1934-5. I was driving in the country yesterday, and swear I saw a couple of camels in a field!
// posted by IBOY @ 8:54 AM 
