Only in Texas....

[AZgl1800]

Oddly lots of rain here and I am NOT complaining. The only issue is the swarming mosquitos, some of which are large enough to require landing lights.

just got back from having new tires installed on my little scooter, and I found the lost landing lights for your Mosquitoes.

[MurphCID]

Those skeeters are a pain but I'd rather deal with them over the noseeums. For those unfamiliar with the term they are indeed real. Sometimes called no-see-ums.

I'll take your no-see-ums if you take full ownership of chiggers.

You win. Chiggers are the worst!

I did find any lotion or cream with menthol will dramatically reduce the itch.

Yeah Chiggers are even worse. Hands down, no contest.

[Oldun]

Of course in Australia we also have Chiggers in the wet tropics (Darwin etc). These little darlings can carry Bush Typhus, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrub_typhus not something to take lightly!
We Aussies just love to have the most things that can kill and or maim you in the world!

[BenTrabetere]

Yeah Chiggers are even worse. Hands down, no contest.

An even nastier nasty is the chigoe flea (a.k.a. the sand flea). I have never experienced them first hand, but some friends crossed paths with chigoes on their honeymoon in Belize.

[MurphCID]

Of course in Australia we also have Chiggers in the wet tropics (Darwin etc). These little darlings can carry Bush Typhus, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrub_typhus not something to take lightly!
We Aussies just love to have the most things that can kill and or maim you in the world!

Yeah why is it that it seems like 99% of Aussie Flora and Fauna is deadly? Everything from Tai Pan snakes, to spiders, to the ever deadly drop bears.....

[DAMIEN1307]

Yeah why is it that it seems like 99% of Aussie Flora and Fauna is deadly? Everything from Tai Pan snakes, to spiders, to the ever deadly drop bears.....

Its like a really drop dead gorgeous lady...so beautiful yet so deadly and poisonous...lol...DAMIEN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq4j1LtCdww

[MurphCID]

You know I should know better by now. Every.single.time. Every single time I say to myself; "I have seen it all it just cannot get weirder". And every single time, something happens that just leaves me shaking my head going: "Well didn't see that one coming, but man, that is weird!" Every.single.time.

[MurphCID]

This has been the wettest summer I can remember. I AM NOT complaining, because we need the rain. It is making my grass grow, which is nice. However the various critters are swarming as is the mold count.

[DAMIEN1307]

It is making my grass grow,

No grass to grow here at my home in Alamogordo NM...surrounded by gravel and cactus in the high desert...But the monsoon rains here are certainly making the mesquite thorns and goatheads grow in a prolific fashion...lol...DAMIEN

[BenTrabetere]

This has been the wettest summer I can remember. I AM NOT complaining, because we need the rain. It is making my grass grow, which is nice. However the various critters are swarming as is the mold count.

It has very wet in SE Mississippi, too. My blueberry bushes loved the extra water, and I had one of the best harvests ever. I am sure my pear trees, quince tree, and mayhaw bushes would have over-produced, too ... if we had not had a hard freeze just as everything was starting to bloom. Yet another Killing of the Fruit Trees Festival.

This rain has ruined my vegetable garden. My tomato plants are heavy with fruit, but it all busts and rots of the vine. Okra and peppers need hot and dry. The only thing doing well is the basil, and this is the first year I have ever had more than I can use.

[MurphCID]

This has been the wettest summer I can remember. I AM NOT complaining, because we need the rain. It is making my grass grow, which is nice. However the various critters are swarming as is the mold count.

It has very wet in SE Mississippi, too. My blueberry bushes loved the extra water, and I had one of the best harvests ever. I am sure my pear trees, quince tree, and mayhaw bushes would have over-produced, too ... if we had not had a hard freeze just as everything was starting to bloom. Yet another Killing of the Fruit Trees Festival.

This rain has ruined my vegetable garden. My tomato plants are heavy with fruit, but it all busts and rots of the vine. Okra and peppers need hot and dry. The only thing doing well is the basil, and this is the first year I have ever had more than I can use.

Yes Okra and peppers are not doing well. I am looking forward to having a decent Pecan harvest later on in the year.

[chiefjim]

This has been the wettest summer I can remember. I AM NOT complaining, because we need the rain. It is making my grass grow, which is nice. However the various critters are swarming as is the mold count.

Speaking of critters I noticed an abundance of toads. That is until a family of hawks took up residence. Side benefit is pesky squirrels too nervous to come out.

Hawks are rather trusting as well. Neighbor was spraying garden with a hose. One took the time to enjoy the shower provided by the human.

[AZgl1800]

93*F here and this in Oologah, OkieDokie land.

but we are okay, but gonna have one Heck of an Electric bill for this month

[AndyMH]

A little cooler here (76F), but most of this week has been 30C/86F or worse and we have no AC.

An Arduino project I did a couple of years ago .

[DAMIEN1307]

93*F here and this in Oologah, OkieDokie land.

A little cooler here (76F), but most of this week has been 30C/86F or worse and we have no AC.

Its only 76F here in Alamogordo NM as well which is quite unusual for us here in the high desert only about an hour or so from the Mexican border...Looks like rain as well which is sorely needed...Humidty @ 45%, dew point at 53%...DAMIEN

[Lady Fitzgerald]

It's been nasty here in my neck of the desert with humidity levels dancing around 40% or more (outrageously high for this part of AZ), especially earlier in the mornings after a night of scattered thunderstorms, many with damaging winds. It rained off and on all night in my little corner of the desert and, currently, the temperature 74° and the humidity is 99%. It is MISERABLE inside my house. I normally have my AC set to 78° in the house at night (80° during the day) but, despite being 74° outside, I had to turn the AC down to 76° just to get some sleep this morning. I feel like I'm in the coldest sauna ever.

At least, when I get thirsty, all I have to do is inhale and swallow.

[AZgl1800]

I have a friend in Glendale and were talking about how humid it is..

he commented that in Glendale, AZ that the water temp out of the cold water faucet is 96*F and 100% humidity

I completely believe that, having lived there for 20 years..... and taking warm showers out of the Cold Water side...

[DAMIEN1307]

Getting massive downpour right now, (Monsoon), as of 1:15 PM MDT...lol...We need this rain but its coming down so fast that there will be flooding in various parts of town...DAMIEN

Ps...Real nice thunder boomers as well...lol.

[slipstick]

Getting massive downpour right now, (Monsoon), as of 1:15 PM MDT...lol...We need this rain but its coming down so fast that there will be flooding in various parts of town...DAMIEN

Ps...Real nice thunder boomers as well...lol.

I remember those monsoons with Pacific moisture coming up from the SW. Back in the 80's my parents had a summer place near Ruidoso (Alto Lakes). I remember the lightning, too - it would clear the golfers off the course quickly. I love that country out there - lived in El Paso in the 50's when I was a boy - many trips through Alamagordo to Cloudcroft or Ruidoso.

[AZgl1800]

Getting massive downpour right now, (Monsoon), as of 1:15 PM MDT...lol...We need this rain but its coming down so fast that there will be flooding in various parts of town...DAMIEN

Ps...Real nice thunder boomers as well...lol.

I remember those monsoons with Pacific moisture coming up from the SW. Back in the 80's my parents had a summer place near Ruidoso (Alto Lakes). I remember the lightning, too - it would clear the golfers off the course quickly. I love that country out there - lived in El Paso in the 50's when I was a boy - many trips through Alamogordo to Cloudcroft or Ruidoso.

I worked all of that country from 1979 through 1991, based out of Roswell, NM for a while, then out of Edgewood, NM for the rest of that time.

Prior to that, lived in between Dumas, TX and Borger, TX on a pipeline property in company house, between 1969 to 1979.
Vacations and weekend trips covered from Lubbuck, TX to Raton, NM to Kansas to Elk City, OK....
all of that good oilfield areas...

From 1991 to 2011 lived in Mesa, Aridzona working for the Phx Fire department doing computer repairs in the Apparatus and Station houses. 271 fire stations in my area, with approximately a minimum of 3 pieces of equipment at each one, everyone equipped with a laptop for the 911 CAD system....

our internal CAD team developed the first ever, Yellow Brick Road for Fire Services, when a dispatch went out, it brought up their laptop screen to the Map page and showed them where to drive so as to avoid the wrong way, one One Way streets.

I still have a few pieces of the hardware I used to maintain that stuff back when it ran on Win95, then WinXP and later Win7. it was never updated after that, stayed on Win7 because Win8 was too flaky for Fire Department use. We got Extended Security Updates for 10 years after it all expired.

no clue what they are using now, I retired 12/2010.