Most have always thought of North Dakota as freezing cold, tons of snow and
so forth, seen the movie Fargo and all that. Well it has been up over 100º
F here and over for much of the state for the past week or so. Records for
all time high temperatures are beeing shattered left and right, and it has
just been nasty hot and humid here, weather even the old timers can't ever
remember having seen before. My once lush and green yard is now bone dry,
and the grass has went dormant. I grew up in Del Rio Texas on the Mexican
desert, was born in Amarillo, ranched with my uncle in Gail Texas, went thru
Basic Training at Lackland AFB TX in June & July. I know about hot weather,
but these last 5 days here in Minot North Dakota have been possibly what has
felt to me like some of the hottest most miserable days I've ever known in
my entire life.

I've lived her since 1986, and each winter was just what you would think it
would be here, cold, and tons of snow, and many
times we were colder than Alaska, which was never as funny as it sounded,
but for the past several years the winters have been eerily warm and mild.
Matter of fact for the past 3 years I didn't use a whole tank of gas in my
snowblower all winter.

Just the other day London Broil became a word not just related to cooking
when London England reached 100º F for the first time since records have
been kept.

Yepper, this summer is going to be one for the record books.