The National Weather Service took an average of afternoon highs and the lows. You get what's called the mean temperature for the month of July, and it was actually the hottest July on record.
We haven't seen temperatures quite that hot in the past 20 or 30 years, said Gregory.
We had a lot of abbreviated days. We would start the morning around 5:30 am and pretty close to 10:30 am, we would get to 101 or 102, and we would shut the crew down, and that was it.
This year, we're having a problem with the color grapes because it's just too hot. The vine just shut down and didn't want to color, didn't want to size the fruit and didn't want to sugar the fruit too.
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