a little news for those who are having a colder, wetter summer than usual. be thankful you are. last winter here the ‘blizzard’ everyone refers to when a few feet of snow fell and snow packed the roads for a couple of weeks … if only it had been a blizzard, and the water tables had been raised some in preparation for the summer. other than that snowfall, it was a rather mild, dry winter here.
I am so glad we are leaving here. things have moved slower than I wanted, but still steadily on. we will be gone before the ragweed hits.
Heat Wave Continues As Oklahoma Death Toll Hits 15
Posted: Aug 06, 2011 10:58 AM CDT Updated: Aug 06, 2011 11:48 AM CDT
![The temperature reached 109 degrees in Oklahoma City on Friday, shattering the old record by three degrees. [File Photo]](https://i1.wp.com/KWTV.images.worldnow.com/images/15221336_BG1.jpg "The temperature reached 109 degrees in Oklahoma City on Friday, shattering the old record by three degrees. [File Photo]")
The temperature reached 109 degrees in Oklahoma City on Friday, shattering the old record by three degrees. [File Photo]
Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY — The number of heat-related deaths climbed to 15 so far this summer, and the brutal heat is suspected as a cause in 11 others, state officials said Friday.
A 65-year-old Hugo man and an 85-year-old Hartshorne man discovered this week are the latest confirmed casualties of the heat, said Cherokee Ballard, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner’s office.
The heat also is suspected in the death of a 49-year-old homeless man discovered Wednesday in an Oklahoma City field and an 81-year-old woman found inside her Wewoka home that had no air conditioning, Ballard said.
The temperature reached 109 degrees in Oklahoma City on Friday, shattering the old record by three degrees. A record high of 111 degrees was reported in Tulsa, said Gary McManus with the Oklahoma
Climatological survey. Friday was the 43rd day so far this year with temperatures above 100 degrees.
Triple-digit heat is expected to continue over the weekend, but Oklahoma could see temperatures decrease sometime next week if a high-pressure ridge shifts to the west, said Ty Judd, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Norman.
“There could be a pattern shift where the ridge overhead goes into the western part of the country, which could let a front move further south,” Judd said. “Next week we could actually see temperatures under 100.”
Much of this year’s excessive heat can be attributed to an unusually dry spring and lack of summer showers, Judd said.
“We really haven’t had meaningful rain in several months,” Judd said. “The ground is just basically baking.”
The western two-thirds of the state is locked in an exceptional drought — the worst condition recorded by the U.S. Drought Monitor.
The entire state has reached at least severe drought conditions, the monitor reported this week.
The drought is taking its toll on agriculture production and prompting ranchers across the state to thin their cattle herds for fear of hay shortages during the winter.
“The sun ain’t ever been so close to the earth,” said Leritha Criss of Dallas, who was touring the Oklahoma City Bombing Museum and Memorial in downtown Oklahoma City.
In Norman, where the temperature climbed to 108 degrees, 24-year-old Steven Anderson tried to keep cool while hanging siding.
“It’s so hot, it’s hard to breath,” Anderson said. “Every time I take a breath, I feel the hot air. It’s unbearable.”
With those statistics it is no wonder that you are all praying for some rain or at least some cooler times to come, this weather is so hot my great friend, something that I have never experienced and would not welcome it either.
I will be pleased for you and your man when you are moved and in your new surroundings, you have suffered enough there that is for sure. Times have moved slowly for you, a lot slower than you would have wanted I know that, but the road ahead is now much clearer and soon you will be settled and happy in your new home…
Be very well Kirstin and give
my best Gothic wishes to your man…
Androgoth XXx
i believe that, andro my friend! the road is opened, and i know in my knower it’s time!
thank you ever so much for following my adventures! you are one of my watch guards, you and jena.
k☼
Texas and Oklahoma just can’t get a break, can they? The droughts we experienced for the past couple of years, thank God not this year, were tough but nothing like what y’all are suffering through.
its been a tough row to hoe, as they say around here. still, with all the trials, it could be so much worse.
k☼
I’m keeping my fingers crossed for you and everyone around there. As you know it’s always hot down here during the summer, but were not even suffering from the type of heat or drought you guys are dealing with.
Sorry I haven’t been around much. It’s been hectic and I have just been putting some quick notations on Facebook. Nothing else lately.
oh youre on facebook? i will have to look you up! im not always on, but i check in from time to time.
k☼
as long as progress is still being made, you will get there.
16 C (60 F) here today, that certain is not a summer.
hope you get some respite from the heat soon.
ya certainly not summer here either … more like hades. 😉 weather has been ‘out there’ for much of the world this year.
we will get some respite soon.
k☼
We have been very lucky out this way, infact summer haS barely begun. We had those nearly 800 inches of snow melt which has finally slowed down.
I has been sad to see what is happening out there and to some other parts of the country. Unbelievable heat waves, I think of you guys when I watch weather out there. I sure hope you have some air conditioning or a swamp cooler like me. Although, in that humidity you were having it wouldn’t help.
I seen it has cooled down now….yayyyyyyyyy!!!!
smiles,
Raven
Catching up……. Good grief that heat must be next thing to unbearable, I hope that there wasn’t any more deaths attributed to it, I like the heat, but not quite THAT hot, I really feel for you guys , if I manage my promised holiday to the states I’ll avoid Oklahoma in August.
you should avoid oklahoma the other 11 months as well. there is realy nothing here to attract anyone to come visit. unless you like college football. and more indian art. and meth labs.
the east coast has interesting coastlines and lots of americana history, and of coarse the west coast is beautiful. the painted desert in arizona is breathtaking, especially at sunset. utah is a little boring in some areas, but even so it has its own brand of beauty.
i hope you get to take a lovely holliday here some time. you could always visit me, if youre in the pacific northwest 😉
k☼
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