Jim, I need some of this rain of yours here! Drought, blazing sun and nothing more this August 🙁
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I feel your pain...a few years ago it was like
that here,the soil was like chalk and the Bananas
would reluctantly grow a new leaf only when 1"+ rain fell...
I think that happened every other month 😯
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In Manzanita, Oregon, the highest I found was 83 oF. That is about as warm as it ever gets there: Portland was >100 oF then.
In Tulsa, the highest has been 102 oF a few times. As with Jim, the rains are keeping the heat down.
86 oF (30 oF) in Manzanita right now! To bad I'm in Tulsa now, where the temperature is the same. But Tulsa will be colder than Manzanita tomorrow. Weird.