Chat and discussion:
This has to be the longest summer of my nearly 7 decades. It started early and won’t go away. When I stepped out this morning early it was already over 80 and the air was heavy sticky. No rain to speak of for the whole summer. The ground is just dust for feet.
Our summer (north GA) has been weird in some ways.
1. We were comfy til late June, so late heat.
2. We only received 1/4” of rain for all of June, which is REALLY rare.
3. First two weeks of July it rained every day and that was about 6” of rain. Then no rain til second week of August.
4. August temps have been normal.
5. Most everyone’s gardens had produced poorly for tomatoes, peas and cucumbers, but great for cherry/grape tomatoes and beans.
I thought you Okies got some rain last week. Depending on where you were, we got some in Texas.
We have been dry here in NH and summer did start early for us, too.
Last date of frost was before Mother’s Day and according to Joe Bastardi at Weatherbell, we should be in for a mild fall through October.
We have a pond that is way down in water level. We could use a little more rain.