Greetings and salutations, everyone; yes, once again it is I, Mani the purebred border collie, filling in for the guy I live with, and here today to talk about the heat. You may remember me from such posts as “The Heat Is On’, among so many, many others.
Here I am in a characteristic pose.
I’m hot. This picture was taken yesterday and now I’m even hotter.
It’s 88 degrees F (31.1C), which the guy I live with says is totally insane for the first full day of spring. The humidity is six percent. There’s a cold front moving in, with wind, so we’re under yet another “fire danger” warning today.
Earlier this week the forecast was that this “cold front” (not very cold, really) would bring rain, but “they” took that away a couple of days ago.
This is no fun at all. It’s true that we’ve received 1.93 inches (49 mm) since the first of the year; the average is 2.16 inches (54.8mm) up to the end of March. But the guy I live with says that since October, November, and December were so dry that that’s factored ins, since the beginning of the water year starts on the first of October.
There’s no precipitation in the forecast and the guy I live with said he’d like three weeks of rain. He says that used to happen here in March, sometimes.
A couple of days ago the guy I live with noticed what looked like drops of water on the patio. He even saw a drop fall. He looked around and couldn’t find anything that would cause this.
He even looked under the sink to see if something was leaking. That was an unlikely place for water to get into the patio without getting the outside wall wet, but he looked anyway.
He decided to ignore it, and then yesterday he saw this.
He looked and looked again, and felt another drop.
It was from this:
A cut end of the grapevine next to the kitchen window.
The grapevine is dripping grape juice. This probably isn’t good for the grapevine.
The guy I live with posted this picture of a very-late flowering Galanthus woronowii.
There have been snowdrops in flower in our garden for 202 straight days now.
That says something about snowdrops, but more about what passed for a winter here.
Some years ago the guy I live with got various color forms of Corydalis solida, and they’ve seeded around, producing other colors.
Here are a couple of them.
And that’s our first full day of spring. Roastingly hot. No talk of gigantic blizzards, thunderstorms, gentle rain, anything resembling spring.
I’ll leave you with a picture of me showing what I do on a day like today.
Until next time, then.
the miserable gardener 
I’ve corralled seedlings of corydalis solida into one area   Â
Here they seed everywhere.
It’s very hot for the time of year, and I dislike it.
It’s disgusting. We purebred border collies loathe hot weather.
For comparison – 12C here with 85% humidity here today. It was warmer on Friday at 15C but it is wonderful conditions to work in the garden. And, re grape juice – only after fermentation and from a bottle!
The guy I live with says that is the best use for grape juice.
12C would be a typical temperature at this time of year, here, too. The entire western U.S. has been experiencing much higher than normal temperatures.
Awful. We’re at 30% of our normal snowpack up here in Oregon. I am dreading the fires…
The guy I live with says things don’t look great. 59 percent of normal snowpack for the South Platter River drainage, but with all this extreme heat, who knows what will happen?
What will happen to THE Grapevine if it keepss ‘weepin’ Mani an Guy? An how can it bee so *hot* there?? Youss’ just had snow a while ago?!?! Wild weather inndeed! Iss only 29 F heer an sorta snowin but nothin stickin. Yore flowerss are purrty. Our Snowfrops are up butt too chilley to open. They may not even get a chance to bloom **sighss**
**nose rubss** BellaDharma an **wavess** BellaSita Mum
The guy I live with says he doesn’t know what will happen to the grapevine. Maybe nothing, like when sap runs in trees.
We did just have snow, and now it’s insanely hot for this time of year.
Maybe your snowdrops will just wait until it gets warmer. When we have a cold winter, that’s what they do here.
Going from a pitiful winter straight to summer is no fun in the metro area. I’ve been driving back and forth to Pueblo to help my dad as he is moving to a senior independent living facility and getting his house ready to sell. It’s miserable with the heat. Wilson and I want to find a class teaching us how to rain dance because lord knows we need it.
We hope you are able to stay cool, Mani. Praying there is some relief soon.
The guy I live with did install the portable air conditioner in our bedroom. It works very well.
This is really awful, though, isn’t it?
The Front Range seems to get locked into these weather patterns for weeks and weeks on end, but there’s some hint of a change next week.
Let’s just hope and pray it involves some form of moisture 🤞🏼
Yes, we agree.
The guy I live with remembers one time when he was working in telephone repair and there was something going on and it had been raining for days and a supervisor came out to talk to him and his coworkers and he said “This is June!”, like everyone knew it rained all the time in June.
Or times in other months when it would be raining on and off for days and he would be working lots of overtime because of it.
How times have changed.