The weather has been weird this year. We had a record breaking snow storm of over 3 feet of wet snow in April. It has rained several times a week (normally we get only 12 inches/year, and I'm pretty sure we've already surpassed that). We got 1.5" in an hour and about 3" in 24 hours last week. Last night we got hard rain and hail and today, the 2nd day of summer, is supposed to be a high of 61 F.

Overall I like the weather. The rain has been good for my garden. The cooler temperatures are make it not miserable when I'm outside weeding the garden or doing other yardwork. Everything is bright green and beautiful where usually things would already be a drab tan by now.

I have no idea whether this is just a fluke year or a change in climate, but I'll take it.

#grownostr

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We're still having cool enough nights that I can open the windows and let the house cool down a bit. It's pretty great.

I think every night except one this week, I've been able to do that. The one night I couldn't wasn't because it didn't get cool enough in the night. It just didn't get cool enough before bedtime and I've had to be careful leaving windows open because of the frequent wind and rain that we've had at night. If windows are open more than a crack, the wind can blow the rain inside and flood things, so I close the windows to only a crack at bedtime.

Most nights I've gotten a good 3 hours of windows wide open cooling the house, which is really nice.

Yes its been different this year, at least early spring for us. But now we're just back to HOT.