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DeltaRed

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We live in a very dry climate. Desert southwest(western Colorado).Dry heat,dry cold. at times when the humidity is very high(like this morning) I reminded what it is like living in the wet humid areas. Wet cold goes right through,wet heat soaks you,you cant sweat it away.We can dry hay in a windrow in 2-4 days. Seldom worry about rain.We have over 300 days a year of sunshine,clear skies.Even with last years record snowfalls,It's been 5 months with out any measurable rainfall. Dry,even for us.However today it is threatening to rain.very humid today.Interesting about differing climates.
 
Y'all are on the opposite end of the spectrum from us in southeastern VA, about 50 miles from the Atlantic Ocean and about 125-150 miles south of VA's mountains. We have the wet heat and cold at times that just suck the life out of a person. Myself, I can take the heat better up to about 95 degrees and 80% humidity. The cold just saps me as I can't make body heat, wear long handled underwear a lot unless the temp stays above 55-60 degrees and no wind blowing.
 
And opposite from us. The water table is so high here that large trees can be dying and the grass brown and crunchy, but you can take a step and look down and see moisture glistening from your footprint. I don't think I'll ever get used to seeing that!

By the way, how that happens is, we can go through a long dry-spell as well, but areas around us can get lots of rain. Anyone remember a TV show called, "The Dome"? Sometimes it felt kinda like that. But the water from other areas would migrate to our area underground, raising the water table to the saturation point. That's actually a good thing when all the vegetation is dying, and I've only seen it twice in the 15 years we've been here.
 
I live in one of the wettest places in the USA. We get over 60 inches of rain a year and we are surrounded by water. It is not like the north west with rain every day but when it rains it really rains.

Our climate is controlled by water. It keeps us from freezing at night and we rarely see 100. But with the humidity it makes it feel colder or hotter than it really is.

I have seen people come from the snowy north and they can not believe how cold you feel down here.

But like anything you learn to adjust to the conditions.
 
After the past 4 years of monsoon alternated with blizzard season, I can only dream of how nice a dry climate would be!

As a farmer I understand dry and drought can be a bad deal for the crops, but it has been so very long since it has been dry here..... we have lost so much crop and wasted so much effort on the wet conditions.

Paul
 
Yes,we are drier. I know you guys can grow some dryland crops. We cant grow anything without irrigation. Delta County is the driest county in the state of Colorado.My area/neighborhood in the driest part of Delta County.
 
It is a rare day here with out clouds , humidity to day is 84 % , last i looked it was 47 degrees and ya need a tarp strap to hold your bonnet on your head. Ya have never lived till ya get in one of then lake affect snows . Rain wise last couple yearws in the spring makes for rough planting season and hay making around here . Now how winter will stack up is anybody's guess . will i need to use the snow blower this year ?????? Or will we get just enough to make the younger set go ditch cleaning on each snow fall . Been a couple years since we got hammered . Even if we do people may get stuck at home for nomore then two days and usually less . 77 and 78were the last biggies that took days to get everything opened up as it caught us all with our pants down.
 
delta is the Arkansas Valley flywheelers active? I still have a box full of ribbons and trophy s from living and pulling near Salida valley flywheelers tractor pullers .
 
Yes Sir, dry land pintos, winter wheat, and silage. Only irrigated alfalfa. Been through Delta many times on Harley trips. That stretch from Ridgeway all the way north of Grand Junction is a scorcher on a motorcycle most of the summer.
 
That's what we like about Arizona in the winter, comfortable temperatures and low humidity. N Minnesota is fairly humid and hot in the summer and seems to be getting worse. When I was young no one had air conditioning but now most do.
 
Hardly anyone here in Flagstaff has a/c other than window units. High end housing excluded. Next house we have will have central a/c I don?t care how cool the local summer time temps are.
 
Pretty sure they are.Dont have much contact with them. They are on the other side of the hill.
 
(quoted from post at 08:23:14 11/25/19) We live in a very dry climate. Desert southwest(western Colorado).Dry heat,dry cold. at times when the humidity is very high(like this morning) I reminded what it is like living in the wet humid areas. Wet cold goes right through,wet heat soaks you,you cant sweat it away.We can dry hay in a windrow in 2-4 days. Seldom worry about rain.We have over 300 days a year of sunshine,clear skies.Even with last years record snowfalls,It's been 5 months with out any measurable rainfall. Dry,even for us.However today it is threatening to rain.very humid today.Interesting about differing climates.
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We are down here in St. George, UT for the winter, just broke a record with 154 days without precip, got a little over an inch last week. Irrigated land down here can get up to 7 cuttings of alfalfa a year...compared to 2 or 3 in eastern WA.
 
I live about 25 miles southeast of you. Follow 491 through Pleasant View, Arriola, Lewis and you're almost there! We should get together for a frosty beverage sometime!
 
My Mother-in-law shall turn 99 on Dec,28....then my wife and I head to our winter residence in Florence AZ........

Dry weather,Great Neighbors, No politics.........:)

Bob...
 
Delta, Bmack, and mptaszynski, I've been to all of your parts of the world at one time or another. Went through Delta in the middle of winter, from ID through Grand Junction, to Hwy 114 then down the gun barrel to Monte Vista. Over to Alamosa. Then a week later back through the same route then back to ID again with the rest of the Air seeder I took up the first trip. The First trip I had to go the long way around up through Denver to Cheyenne across to ID as the road were closed for oversize travel.
For the other trip it was summer time, maybe spring. Went up to Probably Salt Lake. Took 491 from Gallup up to Cortez, then on to UT. Was a very pretty trip. Stopped at one of the little places was a store there might have been Dove Creek been a few years and was to busy enjoying the scenery.
 
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