(morning writing)

[elainegrey]

Worried my comment about yay for low humidity seems heartless. We are in a severe drought and other parts of the state are in extreme drought. The low humidity just makes the fire danger worse and dries out the environment even more. So, yeah, the low humidity and heat are working together in a problematic way. I cut back two young redbuds yesterday i suspect of loosing significant woody growth due to the drought.

• https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/exper/ndfd/ndfd.html -- see where temperatures are likely to break records

• https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datatools/records -- how many records have been broken (the high min points to not cooling off over night)

• https://yaleclimateconnections.org/topic/eye-on-the-storm/ -- coverage of extremes with recent headlines "The world just had its second-warmest March on record" and "The year so far: hottest and driest in U.S. history"

Comments

[altamira16]

We are going to burn due to drought and low humidity, but it is fine.

Well, it is not really fine, but it is not your fault either.