According to the Met Office, the summer is now over and we might as well pack up the barbecue and wrap up warm.
Given their recent record, I would suggest it is time to stock up on Factor 50 and charcoal!!
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New Zealand is currently suffering snow falls in places snow never falls. It must be that global warming! 😕
And snow in the US looks as if it is going to last through the summer…
37C in the shade here today. The barbie is warming up as nicely as the beer is cooling and there ain’t a morris dancer or holy choir within a thousand miles. Perfick!. 😀
OZ
After two months of 90 degree weather, we have had 12 inches of rain in the last two days. If the creek rises any further the house will float away and I will have to retire to the boat.
Although it is a reasonable summer here now on the plain, if a bit late, 40 minutes up the road they did not bother to try to open Mt Baker. In July they still had 35′ of the stuff on the road bed. A lot of the ski resorts still have runs open in the Cascades.
Its okay here, warm-ish, and partly sunny, no coats required just yet.
Remarkably I noticed the exact same thing just yesterday morning, I didn’t however need a muti-million pound met office to tell me, my children did (well sort of)
I noticed that they no longer switch the bathroom light on at 6;30am when they go to brush their teeth, this of course could mean one of two things, either the bulb has blown or it’s getting lighter in the mornings!
Fortunately it was the latter which can only mean that SUMMER IS ON ITS WAY 😉
Down here at 34° South we don’t have violent daylight changes an hour and half, perhaps two at most.
In the high Sierra Nevada mountains in California there are still a number of large patches of snow visible from miles away.
“Down here at 34° South we don’t have violent daylight changes an hour and half, perhaps two at most.”
Soutie, at 55N we get quite big differences: 7 hours daylight in winter to 21 in summer.
It could mean that the EU has spread its tentacles as far as your part of the world and banned 60 watt light bulbs there as well 😦