POPPED

As someone who lives in Texas, I can tell you that this article is a pile of it. Our 'cold' summer has brought temperatures in the 90s almost every day. Even on rainy days, when the temperature is cooler, it's still above 80. I guess 'cold' is a relative term, but to me, an average of over 90 degrees isn't 'cold'.

If anything is destroying crops, it's the flooding from record-breaking rainfall. San Antonio passed out average yearly rainfall in July sometime. Someone get the ark ready!

Heat units, the measure of accumulated warmth on cotton plants throughout the growing season, are down 16 percent from normal for the three-month period that ended Tuesday, Randy Bowman, a cotton agronomist with the Texas Cooperative Extension, said.

All temperature is relative, and this summer has been relatively cool in the south central states. It is well below normal, and sorry if I take the word of a cotton growing expert over that of a random poster on the internet.

I live in North Texas near Dallas.

We have not YET hit 100 degrees for even a single day this year, which is HIGHLY unusual, and all the TV weather forecasters have commented on it.

We are supposed to finally get 100 degree weather this week.

Granted, 'cold' is a relative term. If you and a random cotton grower consider 75 - 95 degrees 'cold', you're well within your rights. I just don't think most people would agree.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the temperature is cooler when it rains. Days that it doesn't rain, it's still hotter than hades. It hasn't gotten down below 75 at NIGHT in more than a month. Brrrr. Someone get me a coat!