nnnngh

[baxil]

Okay, I've been suffering silently through weeks of unseasonal clouds and sporadic rain -- and the strange spectacle of mid-May snow in a region where the hills are usually long brown by now -- but it's once again time for my annual mental break:

Hail.

June 1.

Hail.

AAAAAAGH

Comments

[arethinn]

You had hail, we had rain. As I keep saying in various places, it seems clear by now that the precipitation year in this area has shifted relative to the calendar. It used to be almost unheard of to have rain here after early May; now it continues into mid-June, and by the same token, doesn't start until sometime in December when it used to start sometime in October. (See also lack of frost days in winter and fewer really really hot days in summer.)

Of course this could all shift back at some point another couple of decades in the future. Weather pendulums. So summer will start, just later. And go later.

[baxil]

Thank you. That does help, actually. Though I'd rather have the sun when I can also bask in the heat, and the cold along with the short days so that I can properly hibernate ...

[roaminrob]

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