109° here yesterday! TR Well I just had to try it.... Does that thermometer say that it's 124 degrees outside??? I see the one on the pavement, and of course the egg..... but that seems crazy insane for your location!! I don't remember my family that live in Phoenix ever even talking about heat like that! Stay cool as you can!!! Canada now has an all time record for temperature. Lytton, British Columbia was 47.9 Celsius yesterday. (118.22 Fahrenheit) Prior to this heat wave, the all time record was 45 Celsius. (113 Fahrenheit) Global warming advocates and eco scam artists will take full advantage of this once in a lifetime event. Considering the scam that is the coronafraud, it wouldn't surprise me if weather modification was involved. Create a crisis then conveniently offer a solution. :negative: That is outside - the sensor is actually in the shade - but on the west side of our house. 124 degrees in Portland in June is just crazy. And in the usually hot and humid south it's only 86 degrees and 55% humidity. While this is awesome weather it is unusual for this time of year. Yesterday was exceedingly hot here in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. It was around 114 to 115 at its highest where we live. Around 6 or 7 the wind picked up and it dropped about 7 degrees an hour for a nearly 40 degree swing and was very pleasant around 10pm. Fortunately it was a "dry heat" so it was almost bearable, but not really haha. We are now experiencing high 80s so it's much, much better. The larger concern is how much the heat may be drying our forests. Last year 500,000 folks in Oregon evacuated (including us) due to the raging fires. Some folks close to us literally evacuated three times in as many days! Earlier this year, we had a massive ice storm that then downed lots of trees and branches, no doubt littering the forest floors with even more branches, which are now being dried in the hot sun. Please pray for God's mercy. Silly Todd - you need to lay it straight on the ground…. It does work. :mdrmdr: :mdrmdr: It would take a while for the cast iron (love cooking in cast iron, use it ALL the time) to heat up. @tammie good to know! I'm hoping I don't need to test that again anytime soon. @lookingup howdy neighbor! There are a few of us in the Pacific Northwest on RITAN
