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
