That clinches it, I’m voting for a “thumb your nose” smilie in the next election:p
Oooh, great advice! I’ll head out to Spags this afternoon. But ya know, it’s not the same since they got carriages and bags. They even take credit cards now. It might as well be WalMart. 
And what’s that I see? There was this bright yellow thing in the sky for about 1/2 a minute this afternoon.
Seattle here. Morgainelf, you don’t by any chance know where the sun dome is, do you? Summer? Feh.
I remember years ago, a friend of mine had a t-shirt that read “Seattle. We don’t tan, we rust.”
Where in CT do you live, Phlosphr? I live in Fairfield and it’s only just stopped raining, even though they said it wouldn’t stop till Sunday. My bf told me there have only been three sunny weekends since Jan 1st. This sucks.
From the National Weather Service: their record of precipitation for Trenton NJ for the month of May:
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/phi/products/PHLCLMTTN
NUMBER OF DAYS WITH PRECIPITATION 0.01 INCH OR MORE… 19
NUMBER OF DAYS WITH PRECIPITATION 0.10 INCH OR MORE… 9
NUMBER OF DAYS WITH PRECIPITATION 0.50 INCH OR MORE… 2
NUMBER OF DAYS WITH PRECIPITATION 1.00 INCH OR MORE… 1
31 days out of a possible 31 days.
14 out of 19 days so far this month…and it’s raining right now.
I’m going stark raving bonkers here.
Toaster, are you reading that correctly? I don’t remember May being that crappy.
It looks like there were 19 days of 0.01 or more. Of those 19 days, 9 had 0.1 or more. Of those 9, two days had 0.5 or more, and of those two, only one was an inch or more.
Faerie Nuff - I’m on the exact opposite side than you. I live in Stonington…South-east coastal… Actually the day has not been too bad. I got some work done. My dog got a chance to chase barn swallows again for a little while. It’s so damn funny. They taunt him to no end. Swooping down over his back…He’s never got one but I have no doubts he will one day…
Morgain - Yeah I know I was up there not too long ago. Spags has changed so much…They ought to call it Spags With bags now…
Well, the sun is out now, but looking out over the ocean, I can see a big dark mean front coming in quick. And the wind’s picked up as well.
Yeah, this is insane. Sometime in November, everything went all to shit and hasn’t recovered. There were stretches of light snowfall every day, weeks of below-freezing highs, sub-zero windchills, high winds, huge snowstorms, and the occasional rainstorm all winter. Then, in April, when winter ended, it just rained. And rained. And I could still see my breath in mid June.
I work as a bike messenger. The weather has a way of affecting my mood. It’s not seasonal affective disorder, it’s merely a rational response to spending all day in profound discomfort. But it really sucks. The weather report almost brings me to tears.
See, now you know how us Pacific Northwesterners feel.
Back in March and April, each month brought us exactly one day each without measurable precipitation. That’s wet even for this part of the country…
On the other hand, we’ve just gone from 95 degrees and sunny a week ago to 50’s and drizzle (just like April) again as we bear down on July here.
I blame The French - it seems the trendy thing to do nowadays.
I wasn’t aware that you could get Seasonal Affective Disorder in the spring. Gray clouds, every single day.
sigh.
After hearing for what seems like ages “No, we’re still not out of the drought” each time we got rain… what I want to know is… "Are we out of the drought yet?? :rolleyes:
Aw, I thought us Mississippians were the only ones being drowned down here. Our showers come up out of nowhere, pour down what appears to be the entire Atlantic ocean, and then disappear. Everything’s green, green, green. I’m paranoid about going outside for fear of snakes.
.:Nichol:.
Same here in E. Tennessee. My wife isn’t the biggest fan of Knoxville, and this ain’t helping. 
Things aren’t any better in Ky. I was thinking of Bradbury’s Venus story just last week. There’s been so much rain that there’s algae growing on my front porch. I just killed a lawn mower trying to hack through the jungle of my backyard-first time in weeks I’ve been able to even attempt it. And to top it all off, here it is the last part of June and it’s 50 fricking degrees (F) outside. What the heck?
Pittsburgh is finally out of the drought. The other good news is the Three Rivers Arts Festival And Rain Dance ends this weekend so we might actually get to see a strange yellow glowing orb which is reputed to be visible for more than a few minutes at a time. OK, I added on the “And Rain Dance”, but it does tend to rain during the Arts Festival. I also have to admit we’ve had a few good Sundays, but here we are at solstice,and I’m wearing sweats!
All together now:
The sun’ll come out in August
Bet your bottom dollar that in August
There’ll be sun.
In August, September or maybe November
We’re gonna see sun some day!
CJ
As I stare at the 86 degree thermomemeter reading in my apartment at midnight, and recall the 80% humidity and 90 degree temperature at lunchtime, I’m thinking that rain wasn’t really so bad after all.
Summer sucks.
You folks are exagerating. We are getting bright sunny days in New England, I think there were three days without rain last week alone. They are all just stragicially placed in the middle of the week The forcast claims that it’s not going to rain again until Monday, but I doubt that since the humidity is 93% at the moment. Although it was 95% a couple of hours ago, so it’s looking up, right?
You say that like spring is supposed to be 70 or higher. Is it? My understanding of the season is limited, because here spring is a two to three week pause between Winter Plus/ Mud Season(Winter Plus extends into May some years) and Summer. I think Mud Season- during which the temperatures might reach as high as 55, which in turn melts the feet of snow, causing inches of mud- is refered to Spring in places that didn’t get eight or more feet of snow without any thaws at all. I hear tell they have nice weather for a couple of months before summer in some places, but that’s just crazy talk. Next people will be telling me that Black Fly Season isn’t a part of some people’s year too.