Heat

[banjomike]

Originally Posted by Clark Fork Fantast

All depending on where you are, don't count on your local fire department to show up if there is a fire in your area and you are outside city limits. We subscribe to annual fire protection because our place is rural.

Yes, indeed.
It's still good to have a Pulaski to use until the fire dept. shows up.

[TheTimidBlueBars]

Originally Posted by oregonwoodsmoke

I suspect that there is nowhere in the country that doesn't get up around 100 degrees for a week or two in the summer. Or, at least, very few places. Being far north doesn't protect you from hot weather.

But yes. I agree with you. It's been miserably hot. I'm grateful for my air conditioning.

The Pacific coast north of the Bay Area doesn't. Highest temperature I've ever experienced in Seattle in my two summers here was maybe 90.

But it's different when you get inland, and the Cascades and Coast Ranges shield you from the moderating effects of the Alaska wind currents. I've taken two trips over the mountains this summer, one to Boise and one to Helena MT, and on both trips it's gotten to 100.

[nowhereman427]

I still love that SF fog. Wish there was another place out of CA that can get duplicate weather with 55-65 degree all year round temps.

[banjomike]

Originally Posted by TheTimidBlueBars

The Pacific coast north of the Bay Area doesn't. Highest temperature I've ever experienced in Seattle in my two summers here was maybe 90.

But it's different when you get inland, and the Cascades and Coast Ranges shield you from the moderating effects of the Alaska wind currents. I've taken two trips over the mountains this summer, one to Boise and one to Helena MT, and on both trips it's gotten to 100.

Yup.
The average summer temps in Idaho are the mid-80s, but in my experience, it's a rare summer that doesn't have about a week of 90º or more in July or August.

Indian summers are also typical. There will be a drop in temps in September that are low enough to freeze at night, and they're almost always followed by a few weeks of summer-like temps that last to the end of that month.

The freeze is so predictable the potato farmers count on it. Potatoes aren't harvested until the vine freezes and dies. That's when the spuds stop growing. After the growth stops, the potatoes develop their flavor.

[DvrGrl]

Glad it’s back to mid-80s! And last night it was 48 degrees! We run around at night and open all the windows and screen doors, sleep bundled up and toasty with cool faces, and then close up in the morning to keep the cool air in (or hot air out.). We sequence lowering and raising the blinds on the east and west side and its been quite pleasant inside. I will admit we hauled out our portable AC unit last week, and I hate air conditioning but was grateful for the relative cool.

It seems to me our berries are way behind what I remember: still producing strawberries and half of my blueberries are not ripe yet. Is this normal for here?

[Cnynrat]

Not sure where you are located DvrGrl, but I've harvested about 85% of my blueberries. We've got about 13 pints in the freezer from this year's harvest. Probably just 1-2 more pints yet to pick.

August seems to be our big month for blueberries.

We live in Sagle.

Dave

[Clark Fork Fantast]

How has the huckleberry harvest been this year? I see in my mind's eye our favorite huckleberry mountainside...

[DvrGrl]

Sorry, we are in Sagle west of 95 off of Dufort. I think your side is a little cooler (and I like it better, but alas didn’t find anything out your way that we liked/could afford/was available).

[Cnynrat]

CFF - I haven't heard people either raving or complaining about the huckleberry harvest this year, so I'm going to guess it's pretty typical. We spend enough time harvesting morels around our place in the spring, and then enough time in our garden that we don't often get out for huckleberries.

DvrGrl - Ah, yes I'd guess we are perhaps a little cooler than where you are. We are about a mile from Pend Oreille in a couple different directions, and I think that moderates our temps in both directions. I looked at my notes from a couple years ago, and we were done with our blueberries in mid-Aug that year, so they do seem to be running a couple weeks late this year. BTW, I picked the last pint today. Oddly, last year we had so few berries that I never even put up the bird netting figuring I'd donate the few we had to the birds for the year. But we're back to normal this year.

Dave

[Cavalry_Chief]

The last day of August just brought us some much needed rain here in NID. Everything feels cool and clean this morning.