Wow… I haven’t gone through a cold winter in freaking years. Living in south Florida completely changes your perspective about getting something less then 60 degrees in December and being able to set up a Christmas trees in your shorts.
I had two zucchini that were on different plants and they all died.
Only beans, basil, two tomato plants, and about five peppers grew good this year. Everything else dies. my cosmos that reach up to ten feet reached 4 foot on the big ones, and they’re all diseased.
it’s hot here all year. this past winter, we had 100+ temps in january and february. i hope it gets a little cooler this winter. it could possibly drop into the 60s. 4 years ago it actually snowed here–it was the first time in recorded history! i hate it that in winter you can’t even wear jeans and long sleeve shirts. the only reason we have long pants and jackets is for travel. (i’m in the far, far south tip of texas–on the border by the sea).
Ha! We are still in the full, unrelenting grip of summer down here in Texas. It’s between 95F and 100F every damn day and no friggin’ rain in sight. The lawn looks like burnt toast since I missed ONE of my designated watering days. It’ll stay like this until October at least.
No, really. The day before it got up the low 70sF. That day, it got up to the mid-50s, and it froze overnight. It was quite a drastic change. Up higher than me, it snowed.
The next few days are supposed to be in the high 60s but temps are definitely heading down. Fine by me, I’ve liked summer but had more than enough of it. I like the cold. People think that’s weird.
My house was chilly this morning. I don’t want to turn on the heat again yet, though. I’ll pile on blankets.
Speaking from the barmy - not balmy - climes of England, I can say with no authority that there are no fixed seasons over here anymore. In fact, you can quite easily get all four traditional seasons weather patterns, in the space of a single afternoon.
The weather in NYC has been gorgeous all summer. We had about 3 hot days and the rest of the season has been stunning. I’m hoping it means we have a freezing, snowy, ice storm kind of winter this year. I love living somewhere with actual seasons!
Here in Toronto it was actually hot yesterday. And we had a perfect Labour Day weekend with sun and warm weather but low humidity (which is rare for us, and extremely pleasant). So it’s still summer here, and according to the forecast will be for at least another week.
There was nothing i loved more when i lived in Baltimore than a raging summer afternoon storm. The wind would pick up, then the sky would darken, and the heavens would open and we’d be deluged for anything from 10 minutes to an hour. It was awesome.
Still, this SoCal weather is pretty damn nice. The best part is not that it’s sunny all the time, but that the temperature and humidity are pleasant. Baltimore summer days could be really miserable, with high temps and high humidity. Perhaps the worst thing was that it didn’t really cool down very much at night, and even with an air conditioner blasting away in our bedroom we were still hot when we went to bed.
Here, it actually cools down at night. Our place here has central A/C, but we haven’t even switched it on. We have the ceiling fans running and keep the windows open, and the place is perfectly comfortable.