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Europe’s Heat Dome Furnace Returns: Brutal 40+ °C Record Heatwave Builds Into August

The Heat Dome is forecast to bring a historic 4th heatwave across Europe, as the peak holiday season emerges over the Mediterranean. Heat Furnace delivers 40+ °C.#august2026 #europe #excessiveheat #heatdome #heatwave #july2026 #mediterraneanforecast
Europe's Heat Dome Furnace Returns: Brutal 40+ °C Record Heatwave Builds Into August

Abundant

Hello Friends!

These past two weeks have seen me spending all of my free time picking raspberries or working on a dharma talk for my sangha this last Thursday. Now I am busy in the garden and catching up with all the things I let slide.

A heat dome arrived today and we are under an excessive heat warning through at least July 14th. High heat and high humidity. I remember the good old days when I first moved to Minnesota in 1994. Summers then were so much cooler. More than five or six days of 90F/32C or higher heat was rare. Now I’m looking at 90F/32C or hotter for this entire week, and it isn’t even the first string of excessive heat days we’ve had. The climate is thoroughly broken.

There is no rain in the forecast, the heat dome is keeping the rain away, so I will need to hand water the garden from the rain barrels. That promises to be a sweaty affair.

The garden has thus far been abundant. Those raspberries:

We’ve had so many this year! We’re putting them in our morning porridge, smoothies, making small batch jam, and I donated some to my neighborhood food shelf (Have also donated a lot of arugula, some herbs and onions). And still the freezer is packed with them. The freezer is also packed with rhubarb. James is going to be doing some canning, but we are also considering a small chest freezer for the basement.

The peas were doing great this year until the first heat wave rolled through at the end of June and the peas decided it was too hot for them. The heat followed by rain nearly every day for over a week, kick started the rest of the garden though.

All the squashes are vining and flowering, the cucumbers are vining and starting to flower, the citron melons are vining but I haven’t seen flowers yet. And the beans! The pole beans have all reached the top of their trellises and are reaching for the sky. I’m picking a cereal bowl full of yellow wax beans nearly every day. All the cherry tomatoes are covered in fruit and I look at them daily, anticipating when they will be ripe. The other tomato plants have tiny fruit that will take a while yet because they are all paste and slicing tomatoes. I can hardly wait for the first bite of sandwich with a fresh from the garden slice of tomato on it. Mmmmm.

Tired of poles falling over during big thunderstorms, James and I built two sturdy arches this spring. I’ve got pole beans climbing up one side and winter squash climbing the other side:

I am pleased with them and I think I will add a third next spring. I took this photo a week ago. The beans and the squash are at the top of the arch today. The beans here are brown resilient beans. They began life four years ago as bush beans and last year they decided to revert to pole beans. The squash is green striped cushaw. I have not grown it before. The leaves are gigantic and so are the vines. Here’s some flowers and bees on the vine this morning:

The garden has also gifted me with a volunteer pumpkin. Last year I planted saved seeds from Naked Bear pumpkin I had grown the previous year, not realizing this variety of pepita pumpkin is a hybrid. I got one small pumpkin last summer whose seeds were regular seeds, not pepita seeds. It cooked up as a nice, not sweet, pumpkin. The vine also had a giant elongated pumpkin that a squirrel ripped apart just before it was ripe. The squirrel scattered some of the seeds, and one of them sprouted. The vine is vigorous and I have to keep redirecting it out of the garden path and away from a tomato plant. So far it has two pumpkins and I spied a third tiny one this morning:

I am strategizing on how I can protect them later in the season. I have no idea how big they will get, whether the seeds inside will be shell-free, or how sweet the flesh will be, but I look forward to finding out!

Here’s a couple big view photos of the garden this year I took about two weeks ago:

This year we’ve made milkweed flower jelly and daylily flower jelly. Both are delicate floral flavors that are lovely on toast made from, for example, this medjool date-sunflower-orange tea sourdough bread I baked:

Instead of using plain water in the recipe I made sweet orange tea and used the tea. So delicious! And now I am wondering what other teas might go good in various sourdough loaves. Whole wheat chai spice? Multigrain green tea? Cinnamon-raisin chamomile? It would be fun to try mint but I am not certain what bread I would pair it with, maybe a seedy Danish rye?

The chickens are doing great. Baba and Nanny are now three months old:

They have their big girl voices now, no more peeping. They are friendly and curious and will eat from my hand, which meant Baba got the huge grasshopper I caught this morning much to Sia’s chagrin. Sia is head chicken, for now. I suspect once the witches are full size, Baba will challenge Sia for top of the pecking order.

And there you have it. If it is hot where you are, stay safe and find somewhere cool to be. Take care everyone!

Was that #ClimateChange ? Scientists ponder a deadly July 4 weekend

by Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY Jul 8, 2026

"Early July brought historic #ExtremeWeather for the fourth year in a row, and scientists again see the 'fingerprints' of climate change in a deadly Fourth of July.

"In 2023, it was a record-smashing #HeatWave. In 2024, history-making #HurricaneBeryl ripped through the Caribbean. In 2025, a shockingly deadly #flood. And in 2026? Another deadly #heatwave.

"Days later, the heat warnings have finally faded for much of the eastern United States, but the grim number of heat-related deaths continues to rise.

"At least 44 deaths have been reported as a result of the July 1 to July 4 heat wave, but it will be weeks or months before researchers finalize an estimate of the number of people who died or suffered injuries as a result of the extreme heat.

"More than 1,300 heat records were matched or broken for maximum high temperatures and warm overnight lows across 40 states and territories over the four days.

"Though summer heat isn't new, the heat wave of July 2026 is something different.

"From June 29 to July 5, 201 million Americans experienced at least one day when climate change made high temperatures at least three times more likely, #ShelWinkley, chief meteorologist at #ClimateCentral, told USA TODAY. Temperatures on July 3 had 'a very strong fingerprint of climate change,' he said, affecting 136 million Americans."

Read more / listen:
https://www.centraloregondaily.com/news/nation-world/was-that-climate-change-scientists-ponder-a-deadly-july-4-weekend/article_243e3bf0-f818-5d17-9a71-a903a0456a34.html

#ClimateCrisis #USWx #RecordBreakingHeat #HeatDome #ExtremeHeat #ClimateDiaryUS #ClimateDiary

The #ConnectedAtBirth #etymology of the week is HEAT DOME/HOT/DANGEROUS #wotd #heatdome #heat #hot #dome #dangerous #climatechange

A screamy morning
Little Viking's urgent cries
"Nei ikke bukser"

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #Spring #Summer #June #Hot #Heat #HeatAdvisory #HeatDome #Weather #Boys #Viking #Vikings #Norwegian #Norway #Ohio #Nei #Ikke #Bukser

June 22, 2025

Day 7: This had better be the last day of these #HeatDome shenanigans! 😤 Grass and plants fairly torched at this point. It's trying to conjure up a t-storm out there, but it's just hot, hot, hot! 🥵 Humans and animals are just exhausted! #KsWx #ExcessiveHeat #ExtremeWeather

Day 6: It's a warm one! Less humidity this afternoon, which is nice. #KsWx #ExcessiveHeat #ExtremeWeather #HeatDome

Day 5: I'm excited because I think the worst of the humidity is over! Still in a #HeatDome though. #KsWx #ExcessiveHeat #ExtremeWeather

Day 4: Still "Hell's Front Porch" hot here. The struggle is real. Same story, different day. 🥵 #HeatDome #KsWx #ExcessiveHeat #ExtremeWeather

Day 3: I'm starting to wonder if we can all make it to Friday. It's only noon and we are already at feels like 122°F with practically no wind. #HeatDome #KsWx #ExcessiveHeat #ExtremeWeather

Current #heatwave across US south made five times more likely by #ClimateCrisis. Latest #heatdome event over #Texas and #Louisiana, plus much of #Mexico, driven by human-cause #ClimateChange, scientists find https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/27/heatwave-human-caused-climate-crisis-texas-louisiana-mexico fiddling while countries are burning. And the #Canadian #wildfire #smoke arrived over #Spain and #Portugal. #AirQualityAlert #healthcare #pollution #WearaMask #asthma #respiratory #problems

For centuries #native #ClamGardens on #BritishColumbia #Westcoast provided #FirstNations with #clams & other #seafood .
In aftermath of 2021 #HeatDome - there's more interest in this #ancient #aquaculture technique. 

#Scientific experiments from #SFU #researchers & #CoastSalish #Indigenous ppl show clam gardens help #SeaLife stay cooler.
#Research aims to show how ancient #IndigenousPractices offers #ClimateChange #solutions in present.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6869870

#nature #science #Oceans #PNW