Every year around the middle of January, I get antsy for
warm weather. I wish for warm summer
days, feeling the sunshine on my skin, and being able to enjoy being outside
instead of freezing cold temperatures, going to work in the dark and coming
home from work still in the dark with no sign of the sun all day long, and winter
snowstorms that have you risking life and limb trying to get where you need to
go. Every winter season I say I’m going
to move South, but I don’t – my family all live in upstate NY and I can’t
imagine moving away and only seeing them occasionally.
After a very rainy April and May, (we set new rainfall
records for both months this year), summer finally arrived. It was sunny and warm with cool evening
breezes. Just what I’d longed for during
those long winter months. Then came
July, we have had an extended heat wave with highs in the 90’s for about a week
and a half, even setting a few new record high temperatures. The humidity that comes along with such high
temps makes it feel much hotter. A cool
front is expected to drop into the area, causing temps to drop into the low 80’s
for a couple of days before it heats back up.
(Not exactly my definition of a cool front. Where are the temps in the mid 60's and 70's? That's what I'm wishing for.)
Normally, I dread the fall season only because it means winter is one day closer. I hate to say
it, but this year I’m looking forward to the fall just for the cooler weather, for the days
when I can go outside and not feel like I’m trying to breathe through a wool
sweater or worse.
So do you prefer the heat or the cold?
Speaking of heat, this Wednesday, July 27th, Marie
Tuhart will be here talking about her book, Quick
Silver Ranch: Saddle Up. Please stop
by and read all about it.
Katherine
I prefer cold weather. Cold as in the mid-50s, not NY cold, although the one time I was there in December, I loved it. It's been hotter than hot here all summer, but I can't imagine how you folks up north are handling the 90s. I hope you get lasting relief soon. I'm looking forward to November.
ReplyDeleteHi towriteistowrite,
ReplyDeleteAs much as it pains me to say it, I'm looking forward to November too. The mid-50's sound really good about now. Our heat wave has broken, if you want to call daily temperatures in the high 80's with humidity broken, but at least we're not in the 90's anymore.