Right down the road from Hanover Park. Yep, it was hot yesterday. I worked in it for about 5 hours, but nothing a good night's sleep couldn't fix. Anyway, I remember when I first arrived in this country back in 1981, that 95-100F was not uncommon for summertime. These past few years have been odd indeed. This area went from a really wet spring to 3 weeks of drought, then another week long rainy pattern, now we're back in a drought. I am an outdoorsy kinda dude; camping, fishing and working. I have noticed many differences in the weather. The most unnerving are the sky patterns. The hazy skies and high topped clouds, the streaky, straight lined clouds . . . all of this is new. Clouds that should produce rain and thunder, don't. The low, scattered clouds, do. Anyway, I think that daytime temps being high, or low aren't as telling as what happens when the sun goes down. Night time temperatures dropping much lower than daytime tells me that there's still plenty of cold on this planet. In as far as I can tell, this is a particularly strong El Nino combined with a solar minimum. Some say it's a Grand Solar Minimum, but who knows. Weather is chaotic and we can't predict what it will do from day to day, so predicting what it will do year to year, or over the course of a century is a fool's errand. Our chaos math ain't that good. Meantime, enjoy the show.
