Summer under suspension
Pencil it in for later, after a couple of wet, chilly days
August 19, 2008
By MIKE BARBER
P-I REPORTERLook 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...
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[T]he growing season was shortened by the coldest and gloomiest start to June since records have been kept.