Today is 21 September, the end of summer. For the next several days, the expected high temperatures here are in the low 60s. It’s been raining for three days. Rain is expected to continue for three more.
Apologies to all those living out past the dry line. We’ve got the cold, wet weather you’ve been dreaming of. We’ve had it for most of the last 10 years. We had three consecutive years of record rainfall. Consider what that means. The farmers around here are spending the fortunes they don’t have putting in drainage under their multi-hundred acre fields so the rain water will GO AWAY and stop drowning the crops. More of this sort of tractor are showing up:
Our local community pool didn’t get a whole lot of business this year. We had a couple weeks of hot in May and June, and a week or so in July. August was notably cooler than usual, with two weeks of highs in the 60s and low 70s.
I’m old enough to remember when the grass normally died of heat and thirst in August, and the temperatures routinely got into the low 100s. Now, it’s unusual to see the temperature reach 90 degrees more than three times the whole year.
And the newsweasels keep proclaiming, “It’s the hottest year ever!”
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