Summer is here.

[Merak]

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Lovely in Wisconsin, don’t need to heat the yard now!

[KenL]

It was a cool spring here in the High Rockies. Then summer came, and it warmed up a bit. Then we had a rainy night, which was nice, and woke up to this. A dusting of snow on Mt. Princeton (el. 14200). More than a dusting, actually, and it lasted a couple days.

Sorry about the crappy photo, my old cell phone doesn't reach that far very well.


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[RJVB]

Originally Posted by frazervalley

Here on the West Coast of Canada, the forecast is for 91F today and 92F tomorrow and this is our first heatwave of the summer.

Didn't realise it would get that hot there (I remember gorgeous Fraser Valley from the spring of '79...)

We've had our first heatwave here (halfway between Paris and Reims, with a climate much more like the latter) about a week ago, with a predicted max. of almost 40°C that we fortunately didn't really reach. Now a (welcome) cooler period that also gave us a few (but not enough) much needed showers. Last summer started in a comparable fashion, then had 2 weeks of 30+ celsius temps with continuous rain (that killed my promising tomato harvest) and then continued like the Dutch summers of my youth. That was a very welcome change from the long, hot summers of the preceding years.

I hope things aren't too different this year, esp. with the prediction that there might not be enough electric capacity (I think more than half the French nuclear power plants are offline because of overdue maintenance and gas reserves haven't been topped up before we were cut off). Not that we have airco...