Incredibly Hot Today

[Adhdferret]

Are the crickets normal? Them wheel bugs too?

I dont remember them when I was growing up, I remember the mayflies and the junebugs but don't remember the excessive crickets, and wheel bugs.

 

[RickN]

I had a good friend in the Army that got a multi year deployment to Hawaii. He said something similar in that when you go to the closet in the morning to get dressed, there are only shorts and hawaiian shirts on the hangers. No long britches, no jackets, no long sleeves.

Yea I spent 2 years there while in the service. Once I got use to the humidity I loved it. During the winter it might have a high of 55, but very seldom did it get really cold. Funny watching the locals break out heavy coats when it was 55 degrees.

 

[dennishoddy]

Elevation helps but has more to do with Latitude than how far above sea level to beat the heat. WY is the 2nd highest mean elevation in the US while Alaska is 15th. One interesting thing is that HI has a higher mean elevation than AK. This is an interesting chart.

State Elevation Ranking (by mean elevation) from NETSTATE.COM

50 states, mean elevation ranked in order from highest to lowest mean elevation.

www.netstate.com

Ketchikan Alaska rarely gets below freezing and almost never gets highs more than 80*, but it gets almost 8 feet of rain annually.
I have a friend who's son lives there. He loves it, but you do have to live in a rain coat. He said you can literally live off the land and the sea.

 

[Hirschkopf]

Everybody has an opinion on what "best" means with regard to year-round weather. One website listed OKC as #10 for best in the USA. For details, see: https://a-z-animals.com/blog/us-cities-with-the-best-year-round-weather/

 

[Bocephus123]

It's been hot in the summer in Oklahoma my whole life. This isn't anything new.

Its a changen though!

 

[SlugSlinger]

 

[MR.T.]

Are the crickets normal? Them wheel bugs too?

I dont remember them when I was growing up, I remember the mayflies and the junebugs but don't remember the excessive crickets, and wheel bugs.

I kill a wheel bug whenever I see one,
No sense in letting those nasty things hang around.

 

[OK Corgi Rancher]

I don't think I've ever seen a wheel bug. Interesting.

 

[Adhdferret]

I don't think I've ever seen a wheel bug. Interesting.

These

 

[swampratt]

Leaf footed bugs look about the same but no spiked wheel on top.

And the leaf footed bug below.