And on our southern (US/Mexico) border, where fences are up or under construction to block people from wading across what normally resembles sort of a dribble of spit, the Rio Grande is flooding due to heavy rains from the recent "almost a hurricane tropical depression" with a new storm beginning to organize with additional heavy rain very soon.

Several large reservoirs are at record levels, and are being forced to release massive amounts of water to protect against failure of the dams. A couple of main bridges, one carrying ~10,000 pedestrains per day AND about 10,000 vehicles has been closed and water is expected to "top the bridge" within the next couple of days. (I think its the near bridge in the picture at the link.)

One town with a population of 40,000 has been evacuated, as have several others with varied sizes reported, but multiple areas with "uncounted squaters" are also being warned and people are "walking out."

No report on "how hot it is" there but weather maps I've been seeing indicate the area has been consistently above 90F (32.2C), regularly up to 98F (37C), with occasiona excursions a bit higher.

One might guess that the humidity is "above normal."

The past two days in my own area have been at quite pleasant temperatures in the low 80F range, but the 99% relative humidity has still made outdoor work a bit stressful for old farts like me. I've been in the process of laying "patio blocks" onto barrier cloth to control the weeds in a corner that can't be mowed with my rider. (Lin thinks I'm making her a patio, but my goal is just weed control.)

It took two days to unload the pallet of blocks that I had dumped into my pick'mup, and another 4 days to lay out ~180 18 lb stones. The first two days were 92F (33.3C) and above, so the 80s the past two days actually were a bit better, despite the humidity.

John