Hot and Dry
July 6th, 2010 7:46 pm

Heat Wave Round II

Capital Climate has been following this second heat wave we’re in:

The Washington National high of 102° missed the record by 1°, and the 100° at Dulles missed the record there by 2°.

Here are some more preliminary record reports (old record and date in parentheses):

Salisbury MD 102° (100°, 1999)
Elizabeth City NC 98° (tied 1999)
Wallops Island VA 99° (97°, 1999)…

Here at Old Dominion Wildlife HQ in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, I recorded a high temp today of 94.3F. The Capital Weather Gang is just showing one more day (Wednesday) with high heat, before a moderating trend.

Dry

I don’t much care for high heat, but the one redeeming thing is the lawn doesn’t need mowing. The US Drought Monitor shows much of Virginia is abnormally dry.

Eric commented on an earlier heat wave post that black bear have been spotted more frequently in areas down from the mountains, probably looking for water. Here’s a photo Eric sent the link to:

Thirsty Black Bear?

Thirsty Black Bear?



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Eric
July 6th, 2010 10:05 pm

The day that the wildlife camera snapped the bear I came home to a rather disturbed berry patch (large-caned red berries that look like raspberries, but I forgot the name). I thought it might have been a desperate deer or two because the ends of the shoots were eaten. Later I realized the berries had been eaten. Then over the weekend I downloaded the photos from the camera and it all made sense.

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admin
July 14th, 2010 10:45 pm

Thanks a lot for sending… we have wineberries that pull off a bit like raspberries with a hollow core.

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