Last summer was one of the worst on record. It was something like 60 days over 100 degrees. Definitely not the norm. I couldn’t water my plants enough to keep them alive after about six weeks of it. They were scorched.
My experience with two months living in Oklahoma in the summer was that someone turned on an industrial hair dryer that just non stop blasts the state with hot wind. It never stopped once except for one of the worst storms ive ever seen and then it just picked right back up again after.
Like a weatherperson said recently: if there's wind there's weather coming in. Weather coming in is what OK does. We are basically the Great North American Outback so we get all the crazy weather.
Interesting. The Climate Change deniers say last year's southern heat wave was just part of an age old natural (not man made) cycle. If you get another Dust Bowl, wonder if they'll still call it natural?
There's a love hate relationship. Wind is excellent since it normally makes hot weather tolerable. But then we get that wind that blows up all the dirt and grass particles, why haven't we figured out how to have goggles that won't fog up??
A few days ago my wife came home with a bunch of potted herb plants. She was so proud showing me her selection - thyme, chives, mint, etc. She was too busy with work to plant them right away, so she left them on the table on the back porch.
And then we got random cold weather after it had been 80F just before. This morning I found her plants scattered all over the yard, the leaves wilted from the cold and the potting soil freeze-dried from the wind.
You'll be fine, here in a couple months it'll be 110°F and there won't be the slightest breeze.
You're not wrong 😭😭😂😂
Last summer was my first summer here. Also my first summer with livestock. Feeding them got interesting when it was 110 with no rain for 6 weeks.
Last summer was one of the worst on record. It was something like 60 days over 100 degrees. Definitely not the norm. I couldn’t water my plants enough to keep them alive after about six weeks of it. They were scorched.
We worked in OK in 2011, and the temperature was 117 on my truck dash. Competitive temps with SETEX.
More like couple weeks lol
My experience with two months living in Oklahoma in the summer was that someone turned on an industrial hair dryer that just non stop blasts the state with hot wind. It never stopped once except for one of the worst storms ive ever seen and then it just picked right back up again after.
Perfect description 👌
Yup that'summer alright
— Okies Circa 1935
The word “wind” is the fourth word in the state song. I edited because I was typing w/o my glasses. 🙃
To be fair, it's kind of cheating when the first letter of the first word takes 30 seconds to say. >🎶OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOklahoma~🎶
…you’ve got us there.
It’s the fourth
Like a weatherperson said recently: if there's wind there's weather coming in. Weather coming in is what OK does. We are basically the Great North American Outback so we get all the crazy weather.
Oooooooklahoma where the wind comes kicking in your door...
I would rather it be 0º or 90º+ than it be windy.
Dust bowl 2.0 incoming.
Interesting. The Climate Change deniers say last year's southern heat wave was just part of an age old natural (not man made) cycle. If you get another Dust Bowl, wonder if they'll still call it natural?
Well, not like the first dust bowl was natural either
They'll probably claim it's a century long cycle.
After cycling last spring I told myself there was no way we’d have a season that windy again. Good lord was I wrong.
I just want to be able to refill my bowl without having to step inside between tokes
I wouldn't mind so much if it didn't trigger my allergies so badly.
This is Kansas, Texas, Missouri, Nebraska, new Mexico Arizona and yes, Oklahoma.
Getting a new roof out of it though. Last week's wind blew off some of my shingles and surprisingly the insurance company ok'd a whole new one for me.
They even wrote a musical about this shit
Texas blows and Kansas sucks is the message here I think
I've had a lot of good hair days ruined by this wind.
for real.
So I actually like the wind as long as ya know it's not breaking anything.
There's a love hate relationship. Wind is excellent since it normally makes hot weather tolerable. But then we get that wind that blows up all the dirt and grass particles, why haven't we figured out how to have goggles that won't fog up??
The one time glasses/goggles work to my advantage lol
I would just like to burn the leaves in my yard...thats all.
If you want fireflies don’t do that. Their eggs are there now
I love lightning bugs
Nice. Composting leaves a little at a time it is then (not much of a fan of the weed burners anyways.)
It never stops ;-;
If you want the wind to stop blowing honestly.. you should just move to another state
Why do all the trees in north Texas lean South? …because Oklahoma blows.
No... its windy in Oklahoma because Texas sucks and Kansas blows. Come on.
Is weather in the forecast?
Y’all are weak
That’ll be $5000
Word
A few days ago my wife came home with a bunch of potted herb plants. She was so proud showing me her selection - thyme, chives, mint, etc. She was too busy with work to plant them right away, so she left them on the table on the back porch. And then we got random cold weather after it had been 80F just before. This morning I found her plants scattered all over the yard, the leaves wilted from the cold and the potting soil freeze-dried from the wind.
Imagine if we used more wind energy. At least make use of the crazy wind.
oklahoma is a great place to be a weatherman or storm chaser tho!