Too hot and dry to drive tractors!!!!

Eldo case · Aug 2, 2011

Feeding hay is the only time I drive my tractors. Missouri is dry and trees are starting to wilt and brown up.

Nancy Howell · Aug 2, 2011

We see the same in Tx.

old · Aug 2, 2011

Ya just got back from town. One bank said 110, another one 109 and the carpet place 105. Dropped off the hill on my drive way and could feel a nice drop in temps. Most of the time it is 10 degrees cooler in the valley I live in so that makes it a tad nicer this time of year

Gary from Muleshoe · Aug 2, 2011

You know it's bad when 95 to 100 feels like fall weather to ya.

NEKS · Aug 2, 2011

In Topeka today at 2:45 the temperature was 112 degrees. Beat the 1936 recorded on this date. Corn fields going down hill fast.

LJS30 · Aug 2, 2011

Man that is crazy heat. Over here in the SoCal desert it got up to 115 with 30% humidity. The heat is nothing unusual but that level of humidity is bad for us.

Goose · Aug 2, 2011

Back in the day when we'd plow wheat ground with moldboard plows, and had no air conditioned cabs on tractors, I'd have a couple of fields started, then lay around in the shade during the day.

After supper, I'd go out in the field and plow till maybe 3 am.

Anonymous-0 · Aug 2, 2011

My yard looks just like that. Some guys just started chopping corn for silage this past weekend. Doesn't look to promising!

Mike (WA) · Aug 2, 2011

10 degrees cooler than 110 ain't exactly gonna make me look for my coat. It got to 108 here a couple years ago, and I couldn't believe how oppressive it was. And you guys are making hay and doing physical labor in that? I just can't imagine it.

High of 76 today, with light north breeze. Forecast is the same for the next week. Can't hardly beat this country in the summer.

fixerupper · Aug 2, 2011

30% humidity! If we had air that dry the corn would turn silver for sure. Our salvation has been the high (80-90%) humidity and wet dewey mornings. Not good for us humans but the plants like it. We could use a good rain here in NW Iowa but it's nowhere near as dry as you people south of us. The corn is burned up on the sandy knobs but as a whole it looks pretty good. Beans are up to my waist. We're a little dry but pretty darned lucky so far. Hope you who are living south of us can cool down and get some rain quick. Jim

greenbeanman in Kansas · Aug 3, 2011

Did you have any reason to check the temperature in western Kansas when you had that temp in Topeka.

At one point yesterday it was 81 degrees in Lakin which is west of Garden City, and where I was north of Wichita it was 115 degrees giving a 34 degree temperature differential. That is a big difference for only a couple of hundred miles.

Similar--the forecast for Belleville, where the high bank races are this weekend calls for 80s while much of the rest of the state will still be over 100.

641Dave · Aug 3, 2011

Riding a tractor today will be about like hanging onto a branding iron.

Too hot and dry to drive tractors!!!!

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