whoze bin messin' wif da weather ?

[wtxsflyr]

We are sheltering in place. Have had 100 plus for 12 or 13 days, and just saw on the news where we are forecast for at least another week above 100. No rain for over a month, none expected for a while.

[Onepoint]

Slogging through the summer here.  Its been hot until yesterday, had near 100 or better for 7 days straight until yesterday with a high of about 78 and some rain showers, picked up a couple tenths over night but came with thunder and the power went out a couple times, which woke me up since we are running fans at night.

My irrigation is off since yesterday morning. I ran out of water for the 1st time we have been here, about 32 years I think. Never have been able to use all my water share until this year.  We have had years where the ditch was shut down because of the tunnel collapse or one year they were working on a dam and could not store enough, but I always had water right to use if they could get it to me. They even had shut me out a couple days earlier than they said I had due to bad math I guess, but the ditch is getting shut down the 15th anyway, so I would have had only 4 or 5 days of water anyway.  A lot of the poorer fields and pasture didn't ever get wet, but I did hit the main fields pretty well and it shows now.  Not enough to make up for 1st cutting loss, but maybe won't have to buy multiple semi loads of hay.  And I guess I should be thankful, a ditch company across the border that serves north of the river they got 2 weeks of water is all since they opted to use their reserve water last year, some areas had none at all. 

Now we all get to start worrying about next year because reservoirs nearly empty if not dry altogether, and I am hearing talk they are going to divert part of our allocation down stream next season to keep cities going.

Just to give an idea how bad it is, Pathfinder reservoir in central WY is where we store and get our shares of water right from, its max capacity is 1,200,000 acre feet of water, normally is between 1,000,000 spring and 7-600,000 acre feet in fall after draw down, and I saw its has less than 200000' left and they have to keep releasing all winter for the North Platte river flow. 

Visually, the lake is in a canyon basin, steep walls in some places, with total depth to original river bed about 200' deep, they use elevation for water level measurement, full is 5,850 ft, current Level 5,786.1 ft and when they consider it dead and shut off all but river minimal output is 5746 ft. Between that which runs off east into the Missouri river, and Flaming Gorge reservoir which is the upper feed for the Colorado river, which they drained 30% off to lake Powell already, if we don't get a real winter, next year is going to make this one look like a picnic. If we face the same conditions we have now next year, we will see things none of us alive have been around to see since the dust bowl, like entire little towns abandoned because they dried up and Vegas going dark.

Fun times.
I bounce between worrying about that, and a Blizzard of 49 situation as nature tries a rebalance.

[Onepoint]

We finally got a real rain, its been messing around with a couple tenths here and there, but last night I was woke by thunder, big crack right over the house that shook it. this morning there was 1.2" in the gauge, doesn't look like it came with hail or wind, so things are looking up, makes that early cut of water less stingy. 

[wtxsflyr]

Saw on the news last night that we have had 29 days over 100!  16 in a row so far this month with another 10-12 predicted!

[jetmex]

100 degrees here, too.  We're bouncing back and forth between 99 and 100 for the next week, but at least the humidity is down a little.

[Onepoint]

We have finally broke the heat dome here, still warm, but low 90s not triples, and with the rain its greening up a little. I even have to mow and chop some weeds, which has been rare this summer.

[jetmex]

Cloudy this morning, but still hot.  They tease us with rain chances, but the heat boils everything away before it gets here.  103 yesterday.  The forecast is for more of the same into the middle of next week.

[stetto]

Yep, hotternell here too. On the bright side, we are getting two degrees below forecast highs every day.