1936 heat wave

[Slim123]

I can remember growing up in the 1950's listening to my dad and uncle talk about farming in Iowa in 1936.  The winter was record cold while the summer was record hot.

[OKdon]

You're right Slim about 1936. Winter was horrid with snow drifts as high as the telephone poles. I wasn't born yet but i don't know how many times I've been told that if you haven't experienced the winter of 1936, you don't even know what winter is.

That of course  was back in the days of horse power and no rural electricity. 

[bruce MN]

My Mother who was born in '28 (thankfully still with us) tells often of spending that period in the Summer of '36 sleeping with her brothers (one of whom we will be seeing off to the great beyond tomorrow) on their mattresses in the yard.  When we asked her about flies and varmints, she said there were no bugs. Quoted our Grandpa as saying that "a cow pie would be dry before it hit the ground". And that  all of the wildlife was apparently congregated around the area lakes. "Like in Africa.".  

Irrefutable truth, I guess, that all of this junk climate sscience is a hoax. Because it got really hot, somewhere, once before. And the  glaciers and stuff.

[BA Deere]

I`ve heard stories about they picked 3 rows of corn by hand, where normally they`d take one row.  They straddled one row, smeared tar on their britches so as the crotch wouldn`t wear out.  The corn was short and just nubbins (they were thankful they had any) but it must`ve been bad that a man could pick 3 rows and keep up with the horses.

[hardnox]

As per some ruminations I went through at Forum to the expected response.

That was during a strong peak in the sunspot cycle.

We're currently in a very low cycle of sunspot activity. Nevertheless we have a string of a dozen or more consecutive months of record average global temps.

The couple of minimum cycles that have occurred in recorded history ran 40-80 years and we're probably not much more than 10 into this one.

So it just occurred to me that maybe the folks who are dead set about being inconvenienced with any of that nonsense will be long gone when the Big Fry commences.

Could be that we're just being saved from the Big Freeze as in the 1816, during the Dalton Minimimum, but that was said to be greatly amplified by the Tambora volcano eruption.

And hey, the price of wheat in London spiked to all time highs following that. Given the nihilism that accompanies some of our crew's worldview, that would be a good thing.

[hardnox]

BTW, I think the sunspot cycle is important.**

That's one reason why I said last winter that I thought we'd probably manage to make a decent or better crop. But with La Nina* concerns etc. I was going to primarily use options because fundamentals were tight enough that upside risk was significant if I was wrong.

As the old marketing talk goes, it is as much about what tool you pull out of the toolbox as it is that you think you can knock it dead.

If anybody made big sales near the top, congratulations. But I'm pretty pleased with my chosen strategy so far.

*for all the abuse that the experts and analysts get here, we should never forget to thank them for getting all stirred up over la nina, 30 day maps etc.

**even more of a wild SWAG but I wonder if we won't have a stretch of pretty good crops, which will challenge policy makers if it occurs.

[sw363535]

I been dreaming of the day when Slim123 posted and I got it.

Finally ........ 

Slim it is the truth of the ages ........... every 20 years the old cons work again......global warming..... the end is near....

and in 1936 most everybody was looking at the end... in one way or another...

[bruce MN]

Thank God for the RAF and the Soviet war machine, or it may have come.