2007: The Year Without An Autumn

I got up this morning and looked at the outside thermometer, and it was 79º at about 7:30 a.m.

The high here on Friday was 96º. Saturday it was rainy all day, but the temperature was right around 80º all day with 100 percent humidity. Fucking miserable. The lows haven't gotten out of the 70s yet. It's like it's still August.

And it's not just in Texas. I talked to someone in Illinois and it's the same there.

I've been ready for fall to get here for the last 5 weeks. But every time the weather person says a big cold front is on the way, it either fizzles out before it gets here or it just knocks the humidity down for a day and the wind switches right back to the southeast.

My air conditioner is crying uncle.

 

no shit. damn al gore inventing global warming...

 

Hondo says everything is fine.

 

Feels fine here in SoCal. 85 and sunny, same as usual.

 

Allegedly it was going to be a high of 75 today, instead it is in the 90s. We have been cooling down to the high 60s over night, though.

 

Yeah, it's gross out. 90 degrees is tolerable in August. Not so in October.

 

It's nice and 45 degrees where I am right now. The leaves are turning and the chill is in the air.

 

It has been hovering around one or two degrees above freezing around here, once the sun goes down. We are in autumn full force. Hope to get out to a park on the Bow some time in the next week. It is positively picturesque with fall colours.

 

Where are you? Greenland?

 

93 here today. October heat isn't unprecedented, and last month was actually pretty temperate, maybe even a touch cooler than normal. At least we're probably out of the woods hurricane-wise (on the East Coast north of say Daytona, at least; waters in the Gulf and off S. Fla. are still warm enough).

 

All of this means snow and 30s in April. Just in time for Cleveland Indians baseball.