Sunday, September 9, 2018

FINALLY, A HERALD OF FALL








20015 was the hottest summer ever recorded in Maine; broken a year later in 2016.  Now, 2018 is the hottest summer ever recorded in Maine. 

Maine normally has between three and seven days in the summer with humidity above 70% - this year that record was smashed by 36 days of 70%+ humidity – another record. 

This has been one of the most miserable summers here in Maine in my memory.  We have never needed an air conditioner in the Western Mountains; but I fear that if the last four years are establishing a new norm, we may have to consider purchasing one.

The good news is that Fall is dawning.  We are starting to see patches of color in the trees.  This morning the outside temperature was 54 degrees and the inside temperature was 62.  I went out and turned on the oil tank and kicked on our Monitor heater.   Except for a couple of days this week, the ten-day forecast is highs in the sixties and lows in the forties and fifties.  

WE LOVE IT!

The republicans and the flat earthers still deny climate change is the result of human pollution and population explosion, so the trend will continue.  Perhaps we have already reached a point where the change is not reversable; if not, that time is not far away.  

What will be the final results when ocean currents shift, ocean salinity is diluted and ocean water rises?   I won’t be around to see it; but I don’t expect a good outcome for the human race.   

In the meantime, I will revel in the approach of fall and anticipate the first snowfall of winter.


And so is the new season of Game of Thrones



the Ol’Buzzard



1 comment:

  1. West is in central texas..we have had the mildest winters and hottest summers in recorded history..fuck.

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