The Weather

This has really been a crazy year with weather. In a typical year we have cold, snowy, winter weather until late April. We get spring in May and June. July is our "summer", usually with two weeks weather that is much too hot. By August the nights are getting cooler and the leaves start to fall off the trees the last week. September brings on the rain, which lasts until mid-October. The end of October we have "Indian Summer", then what most would consider fall happens in the beginning weeks of November. Then snow falls, and we are in a winter wonderland until late April.

This year, by April we were enjoying beautiful spring weather. The sun was shining, the birds were singing, flowers were growing. It was wonderful.

By June we had summer like the rest of the country.I had a thought that, since the the weather was so unseasonably nice and warm, maybe the coming winter would be mild.

Then by the end of July I noticed that some of the early leaves had started to fall from the trees. It was around this time that I realized that not only had the weather been nicer, but the seasons were starting a month or two sooner than usual. My thoughts of a mild winter were replaced with concern that instead winter would start sooner.

And that seems to be what is happening....

By mid October the temperatures started to drop dramatically. It went from being 70 during the day and 50 at night to 45 during the day and 30 at night...seemingly over night. This past week we had snow for three days! Starting on October 25th!

I predict a long, cold winter. And I am not happy about it.