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To: milwguy
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Summer under suspension

Pencil it in for later, after a couple of wet, chilly days

August 19, 2008
By MIKE BARBER
P-I REPORTER

Look outside. August left. November arrived.

September and October were no-shows.

Will summer return?

Considering that the growing season was shortened by the coldest and gloomiest start to June since records have been kept, when snowplows were called out to open the mountain passes, the short answer to the question:

Yeah.

"We still have hopefully another month of summer with a little interruption for the next couple of days -- it will get people ready for fall earlier," said Art Gaebel, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Seattle's Sand Point neighborhood.

Steady rain and gusty winds are expected to drench the area Wednesday before turning to showers Wednesday evening with temperatures in the high 60s...

LINK to entire article here: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/375564_weather20.html


18 posted on 09/02/2008 7:30:35 AM PDT by XR7
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[T]he growing season was shortened by the coldest and gloomiest start to June since records have been kept.


21 posted on 09/02/2008 7:33:00 AM PDT by XR7
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