Odd. NYS had one of the best apple crops on record this year. Big and sweet apples with a bumper crop, even though a few farmers lost some apples to a freak hail storm earlier this summer.
The east coast had an amazing amount of rain. Texas and Arizona are blowing away and drying up fast.
One thing I've been noticing in recent years is that east coast storm patterns currently move from south to north. Go to weather.com, click on the weather map, and hit play, then zoom out so you see the whole east coast. All that rain we've been seeing appears to be from water vapor from the Gulf and Atlantic making its way north. Texas has Mexico to its south.
I seem to remember a time when storms tracked mainly west to east rather than south to north (actually more like southwest to northeast)