The weather forecaster is saying that there is a chance of a ground frost tomorrow. If that is the case then it means that there hasn’t been a frost free month during the whole of the last year.
It’s feeling distinctly chilly now and the trees in my garden are all beginning to look autumnal. I like autumn, in fact it’s my favourite season, but when we’ve had hardly any summer weather at all it’s only natural that you hope for a bit of an ‘Indian Summer’ in September.
I think it’s a bit of a forlorn hope though and I’m beginning to wonder why I bothered to change from the winter duvet to the summer one. Maybe next year I won’t do it and that will guarantee us a sweltering summer! By sweltering I mean about 70F.
Nowadays autumn seems to last for only a few days and then we go straight into winter with a BANG. But I always think of John Keats now and his Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness!
We’ve had a horribly hot and humid summer this year which is unusual. Not the hot and humid, but how many days of it we got. Usually we get a run in August of a week or so an random days here and there up into the 90sF but this year. ugh. I am so looking forward to fall and dare I say winter too.
Stefanie, I’ve been moaning about our weather but I really don’t know how you can stand it being so hot. I know that I wouldn’t be able to move or think at all. I think the hottest I’ve experienced is upstairs in our house which is cottage-style with a slate roof, it gets to the 80sF on a hot day. Absolutely freezing in winter as you can’t insulate the sloping ceiling. At least you can wrap up in the winter. I don’t mind the cold but I HATE the rain and we get a lot of very strong gales here, a bit scary.
Oh my gosh!
You had frost in July? On what day did that happen, do you recall? I keep track of weird weather facts.
It got up to 83 degrees today, which is warmer than normal for our area for very late August, but my mother is sweltering in 95 degree heat in the Boston area. That’s not unusual for Boston, but they have had an unusual number of 90+ degree days.
I wax on about weather, but I must say I find it interesting. Please report if you indeed do have a frost tonight!!
Judith (Reader in the Wilderness)
Judith, I’ll find out exactly when there was a frost, it wasn’t in my garden but was reported further inland. We are so close to the sea, we can hear the tide coming in from our garden, and that means that we don’t get quite so much frost. Just half a mile away they get a lot more ice and snow.
I can’t imagine being in 95 degree heat, truly hellish. Your poor mother!
We used to have a wee weather station in our garden because Duncan (now 24) loved to keep track of the rainfall and temperatures when he was younger. I thought he would become a meteorologist at one point, weather is interesting.
I’ll let you know how cold it gets tonight. Two nights ago I had to put on bed socks, my feet were so cold!
We’re in the high 80s and humid! But I’m thankful we’re far enough north to be missing most of this heat wave. I’m a bit worried about Hurricane Earl eroding the beaches on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Cape Cod is slowly being eaten up by storms.
Hot, humid weather is so boring! There’s not much a person can do!
J.
I suspect I would lie in a cold bath, which I suppose would get warm fairly quickly. Last night there was a frost in Tulloch Bridge which is probably about 100 miles north of here. We did have large hailstones on July 3rd. This is the third year in a row that the jet stream has been much lower than it should be, hence our rotten summer. I’m thinking that maybe it is where it is going to be from now on. Having said that – today was a lovely day, I sat out in the garden reading, no rain at all (miracle). Temperature tonight is 44 F. The erosion in some places here is scary, houses are eaten! Thankfully not on this coast!