....at 6:00 PM, when I finally dragged myself out from behind the fan to do some needed transplantation; sweat running down mon visage. Got too dark to finish; out this morning at 6:00 a.m. to get them in the ground and hope they'll will be OK. Sun doesn't hit that area until afternoon..

After [censored] years in this mild, Mediterranean climate, with maybe a brief "hot spell" in August, we are having killer heat and humidity weeks at a time. (But of course global warming is a hoax...)

If it's bad here, I can imagine what David Ross, on the other side of the mountain, must be going through. Unless he has AC, which many homes in the San Fernando Valley and inland So. Calif must have.

Don't want to think of the next water bill...

And maybe have to pull up every water-needing plant to deal w/Calif drought..
Some houses in the neighborhood are way ahead of me; years ago they took advantage of City's subsidy for switching to xeriscaping.

Sigh!

HB

On 9/16/2014 8:49 AM, Hypatia Nachshon wrote:

...at 6:00 PM, when I finally dragged myself out from behind the fan
to do some needed transplantation; sweat running down mon visage.
Got too dark to finish; out this morning at 6:00 a.m. to get them in
the ground and hope they'll will be OK. Sun doesn't hit that area
until afternoon..

After [censored] years in this mild, Mediterranean climate, with
maybe a brief "hot spell" in August, we are having killer heat and
humidity weeks at a time. (But of course global warming is a
hoax...)

If it's bad here, I can imagine what David Ross, on the other side of
the mountain, must be going through. Unless he has AC, which many
homes in the San Fernando Valley and inland So. Calif must have.

Don't want to think of the next water bill...

And maybe have to pull up every water-needing plant to deal w/Calif
drought. Some houses in the neighborhood are way ahead of me; years
ago they took advantage of City's subsidy for switching to
xeriscaping.
Sigh!

HB

September is always the hottest month in southern California. Today was
the fourth consecutive day with temperatures exceeding 100F. Sunday, it
reached 105F; but today beat that with 106F. The record here over the
past nine years is 110F on 3 September 2007. Strangely, the record low
over the same period was in the same year: 32F on the night of 13-14
January 2007.

This morning, I did three hours outdoors as a docent at Gardens of the
World in a slightly different micro-climate. The other two docents that
shift complained of feeling ill because of the heat. It hit 98F before
the 1:00pm end of our shift.

--
David E. Ross
Climate: California Mediterranean, see
http://www.rossde.com/garden/climate.html
Gardening diary at http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary