Drought
We are in a drought in Minnesota.
It’s been blisteringly, astoundingly hot for weeks. In the 90s every day, not going below 78 at night. We probably hit 100 yesterday; my car read 98.
In minnesota we generally get a few 90+ degree days in the summer. Normally I seize those and go to the beach. I am not doing that now.
The weeks of extreme, unusual heat have been alarming and difficult. Normally we go outside and do outside things in the summer because we finally can. But it’s no fun doing that when it’s so hot. And for me personally… I am uneasy outside, because of the drought.
We haven’t had significant rain in at least three weeks, maybe more. Add that to the blistering heat, and you get drought.
Normally it rains regularly here. We have a million streams and lakes for a reason. We haven’t had a drought in Minnesota since I was a little kid. I remember watering restrictions from that weird year in the 80s. They are back.
I hate when it doesn’t rain. I mean of course there can also be too much rain, we had record years a few years ago and that was not great either. But there is something particularly bone-level scary for me about drought. You can’t do anything about drought. You just watch everything slowly die under the hot sun.