Most everybody knows how ungodly hot it is in a lot of places across the country. The warmest six month period on record since records started being kept in 1895. 55% of the country is in a severe drought. The current drought is now the worst since 1956, according to the the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in a report posted on its website yesterday. The next graphic is the NWS precipitation outlook for the next month. Looks kind of bleak, doesn't it?
Corn prices have risen 40% and the yield is down 35%. It's simply broiling across our nation's midsection.
"About 53 percent of the Midwest, where farmers harvested 60 percent of last year’s U.S. crop, had moderate to extreme drought conditions as of July 3, the highest since the government-funded U.S. Drought Monitor in Lincoln, Nebraska, began tracking the data in 2000. In the seven days ended July 6, temperatures in the region averaged as much as 15 degrees Fahrenheit above normal. Soil moisture in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Missouri and Kentucky is so low that it ranks in the 10th percentile among all other years since 1895."
Check out the Palmer Historical Drought Indices. Set the wayback machine to the fifties and pick a summer month and push play to journey to the present.
I think that its time for these whiney farmers bitching about the heat to pay a visit to Old George Will. George has a simple answer for all this. You see, he grew up in Illinois. It's summer. It gets hot in the summer. Simple as that. So don't raise none of that damn fool global warming talk. Go talk to George, he'll set you straight.
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