we hit 36 as well. low 40’s tonight.
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No frost here, even Dennis was frost free at 32.4F.
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warm fronts coming through tom. supposed to be high 80’s then 80 till sat. more rain and cooling some after that.
87 and sunny/hazy here today, took today off so I was quite busy. Thankfully it wasn’t too humid but I still got a good sweat on. Had to re-till my garden plots as we haven’t had a chance to plant out because all the rain, and some weeds were starting to creep back in. Some parts of the big plot was a bit damp but I got both plots done, ran the tiller over them a couple times.
Finished the day weed eating both sides of the driveway, that was a lot of work as it hadn’t been done this spring so some big weeds. Was able to do it without running out of twine or gas.
Will be planting a lot of stuff over the next few days, it’s almost getting too late for certain things.
@steveb4 have y’all seen your last frost/freezes?
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How do you know that?
“By early June, over 4.3 million hectares of Canadian land have already burned—more than double the 10-year average at this point in the season, according to Natural Resources Canada.”
"Canada has a long history of wildfires, but the scale and frequency are spiraling.
"Some of the worst fire tragedies in our history include:
- The Great Miramichi Fire (1825) – Destroyed over 1.2 million hectares and claimed hundreds of lives in New Brunswick.
- The 2016 Fort McMurray Wildfire – The costliest disaster in Canadian history at $9.9 billion in damages, displacing over 88,000 people.
- 2023’s Historic Fire Season – Over 18.5 million hectares burned, nearly double the previous record.
“Scientists and firefighters alike now agree: we’ve entered a new era of megafires.”
- psheffield. “Canada on Fire: How Wildfires Are Threatening Lives, Landscapes, and Our Future.” 3 Jun. 2025. Blog. Downstream News Media. 04 Jun. 2025 <https://news.conceptclarity.ca/2025/06/03/canada-on-fire-how-wildfires-are-threatening-lives-landscapes-and-our-future/>.
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I think that fire detection is a separate issue from air-quality measurement.
Also, I think (And I am unanimous in this!) it’s likely that the perception of supposedly more and more recent and increasing adverse air-quality impacts of wildfires in Canada are an artifact of Big Media hysteria. Yes, I can see the haze, but I’ve seen haze before.
I will stipulate that the blog I referenced above is not a reliable nor comprehensive analysis of the history of wildfire. I posted it to try to refute the notion that poor air-quality due to wildfire smoke was all that recent. I see I didn’t succeed at that.
Perhaps the fuel load in crown lands IS INCREASING. This could be due to (Heaven forefend!) Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW, Climate Change) which paradoxically causes both green growth and forest desiccation, but it could be due to changes in land use. Native Americans (First Nation Peoples) have always manipulated ground cover to provide fodder for livestock, and Europeans have not done differently, but recent ecological esthetics have mitigated against allowing smaller, more frequent wildfire in wilderness lands and the prescribed use of controlled burns in settled areas. These changes contribute (catastrophically) to fuel load.
The Yellowstone fires in 1988 in the United States happened before so much media attention was devoted to AGW. Back then, mismanagement was blamed.
“The Yellowstone fires of 1988 were unprecedented in the history of the National Park Service and led to many questions about existing fire management policies. Media accounts of mismanagement were often sensational and inaccurate, sometimes wrongly reporting or implying that most of the park was being destroyed.”
This is pure conspiratorial thinking.
What’s wrong with that?
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Hot today after rain all day yesterday. Was able to get out on the river. Water temp was nearly 70f. I’ve discovered a tree frog living in my boat so it just comes with anytime we go boating.
80F tomorrow. Maybe rain fri/sat.
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alot of supposed conspiracy theories have been proven true in the last 10yrs also.
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Fayette Co., PA. It was over 90F today and humid. Lots of running water to plants today.
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Long slow rain all day yesterday, got about a welcome inch.
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You mean besides the fact that it’s a habitual attitude of fear and mistrust leading to a distortion of facts to fit a narrative? Nothing, I guess.
Sorry if this is off topic and not weather related. There are plenty of logical reasons why it wouldn’t be possible to contain every wildfire but they wouldn’t address the basic belief that there’s some nefarious group out there conspiring to make people breathe smoke for vague reasons.
To be totally honest, I’m annoyed by it because I live in a very forest fire prone area and we live with the smoke and danger every summer. The wildfire service does their best, but they have limited resources and when conditions get extreme there’s no way for them to keep on top of every fire. If you live here, you know. But now we have folks thousands of miles away who are relatively safe from these fires thinking we’d put our communities at risk to let this happen. Outta here with that.
80F and sunny today. Ferris Bueller took today off in 1985.
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Better contribute something actually weather related. Summer has suddenly arrived to the PNW. My tomatoes are going to be very happy.
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We had a real gullywasher Sunday