At least 2,000 cows dead in Kansas amid continuing heat wave
https://abc7.com/kansas-cows-dead-cattle-2000-heat-wave/1196…
What the heat doesn’t kill, the floods will drown.
‘Mother nature wins’: Paradise Valley ranchers take in damage from flooding
https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/agriculture/mothe….
intercst
What the heat doesn’t kill, the floods will drown.
I can’t recall, is it the frogs or locusts that are next?
Pete
Talked to a cattleman the other day, what the heat killed is a rounding error in the slaughter house every day. Just a click-bait headline.
JLC
MataroPete
What the heat doesn’t kill, the floods will drown.
I can’t recall, is it the frogs or locusts that are next?
Flood, fire, famine and pestilence.
In the mid-1980’s I was working in London for Exxon. That was back in the Margret Thatcher years when the coal miners were going on hunger strikes, etc.
I turned on the TV to watch the news one evening and the BBC weather forecaster comes on and says, “The only thing we don’t have in tonight’s forecast in pestilence”.
intercst
Ah, the yin and yang of weather.
In Australia they are going through the coldest start to winter since WW2. That’s causing very high electricity demand and grid problems.
Coldest start to winter in decades for eastern Australia with power grid under strain
www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/16/australia-wea…
Australian Energy Market Operator suspends spot market for wholesale electricity to ensure reliability and avoid blackouts
www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-15/aemo-suspends-energy-spot-mar…
Soaring costs have prompted AEMO to cap electricity prices in recent days. That led to power generators withdrawing electricity on the basis that their operations would be unprofitable under the price cap. This meant AEMO forced operators to supply electricity into the grid to avoid blackouts…
DB2
Coldest start to winter in decades for eastern Australia
And the coastal area of southeastern Australia is where about 3/4 of the population lives. (There’s also a good-size clump in the southwestern corner.) Most of the country makes the Dakotas look densely populated.
A map: https://preview.redd.it/9mw8ttqqu0b41.jpg?auto=webp&s=af…
(That huge dark-green area on the map contains about 2% of the population.)
By coincidence, this reminiscence drifted across my Facebook feed today…
I remember it well. According to my sister in law, there was a heatwave of over 30°C yesterday (which is typically how long one lasts)
