It is so hot it hurts to breathe. I just went out and filled up fresh water containers for the birds and animals. It actually hurts to breathe the air is so hot. I don't remember this kind of heat in recent memory.
I don't know how the animals and birds survive it. I pray the rain will come and cool things off.
This year has been a rare one here in Florida. My hearts aches for the wildlife. The temp is over 100 degrees again.
Ugh, I can’t imagine how bad it must be with your much higher humidity and temps that aren’t much lower! Same here in the Phoenix area, even though we’ve “cooled down” to around 109-115. It is humid because it’s monsoon season, (not like FL humidity but it’s muggy), but we haven’t had a decent rain. Normally, it has rained by July, but this summer is so dry. It’s an El Niño year, normally wetter, but not this time, (a four year cycle of ocean currents that used to be a prediction of whether it would be a wetter or drier monsoon; now they’re mostly all dry). Last I knew over 100 confirmed deaths from heat.
Even the cactus are dying, plant experts say, not so much from drought as the nights not cooling off enough. They are cooking.
We took a baby dove to a wildlife rescue a few weeks ago. He was very dehydrated and weak and his parents were nowhere around. He was trying to get at the pool, where he’d have drowned. Too many stray cats around here so we offered him water and took him to a rescue. He drank and drank! But he was too weak to fly. Hopefully he made it. The rescue has been inundated with overheated and dehydrated wildlife this year.
We’ve broken all sorts of heat records like days in a row over 110, etc.