Ditto for Houston. In the last 40 days, there have only been 7 or 8 when there was no rain somewhere in Houston. Lucky for us, we are in an area where there has been no flooding; other parts have no been so lucky. Even at that, this year (for the months of June and July) has only been 9th on the list of most rain days.

Sure am ready for the monsoon to pass us by for a while.

Ugh!!! Texas has been a nightmare the last few weeks!!! The Dallas/Fort Worth area had 14 straight days of rain a couple of weeks ago. Lots of flooding! It's pretty much gone from DFW, but now, as Reta said above me, it's in the Houston area where my family lives. Of course now it's just hot (95 degrees or so) and humid. I'm dreading August. Hope you dry out soon Scooby

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Here in California, we are in the worst draught. Our average here in Southern California is suppose to be about 14" for the year. I think we are at 5" for this last year. Our biggest fear is for forrest fires. We have already been have having what they call "red flag" days, which is high temp, low humidity, high winds. Normally it starts late September thru October. This year it started in May. I can't remember the last day that it rained

Here it's temps of 98 to 100 degrees F. We are in drought conditions. On the rare occasions when we do get rain it usually comes with a lot of lightening strikes,downed trees and power lines. Fields are full of dead crops. No relief at the nearby beaches cause most of the area on the Gulf of Mexico near us is contaminated and the closest beaches on the Atlantic coast have dead birds and fish and no one can give a straight answer as to why.

Hell, I'm headed out that way to visit a friend for a week or so on Tuesday and I am soooo looking forward to dry heat! It's so humid here, you feel like you need 2 showers a day and you're swimming through the air...blech! I'm used to it, growing up in Houston, but still hate it. LOL

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Here in Italy its too much warm! We have about 36/41C (sorry I don't remeber how much are in F) and Florence is one of the most hot city in Italy.
I have 2 work's weeks till and then I will going to the mountain looking for fresh.
It isn't raining from 6 weeks and we are using less electric's energy in markets, banks, offices and streets. We are praying to have rain...and we hope....
Ciao,
Beatrice.

You are very welcome to some of our rain Beatrice. Some parts of the UK had 4" yesterday, that was 2 months worth in a single day and there is more today with more forecasted for the next few days.
Its a real shame so places are flooded, railways, motorways closed and huge delays at many airports. As school finished yesterday this should be the busiest weekend of the year for folks to set off on holiday but the advice in many areas is to only travel in emergencies.

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Gee Scooby I wish your brother luck. I expect it will take him longer to get to Bristol than the flight to Zante will take.
There was a guy on the TV this morning that left work in Bristol 3.30pm for what is usually a 45 minute drive home. He finally arrived at 7.00am this morning.

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