<p>Another heavy rain this morning, after a gorgeous day yesterday. That’s the second significant downpour this week. The earlier one nearly tore apart my young plants. Has anyone checked the stats to find out if this year is the wetest (and coolest, or moderately “cooler”) summer on record?</p>
<p>2009 is in the running for those ‘awards’ … both for individual summer months and as a summer collectively.</p>
<p>Yesterday was spectacularly warm and sunny – we were at a lacrosse tournament near the Jersey Shore – but today it’s raining AGAIN !</p>
<p>The only blessing has been not having to have the ac running constantly, but between the temperatures and humidity within the last week, that has changed. Even though the temps haven’t been too high, the humidity levels are uncomfortable.</p>
<p>This has got to be the weirdest spring/summer weather wise in a long while.</p>
<p>It’s not just rain, but thunderstorms. I want to get in a 20-30 mile bike ride today; I’ll ride in the rain if I have to, but will not ride during a thunderstorm. </p>
<p>Dang. Guess I’ll have to do something like clean the house, something I haven’t had the time to do with all the bike riding. I’d rather go biking!!</p>
<p>But at least I’m home to clean up fresh cat vomit, rather than getting home after a long bike ride to have to clean up hours-old cat vomit.</p>
<p>(Thanks, cat; thanks a lot. Next time, find a tiled floor rather than a carpeted one, please!)</p>
<p>We don’t have a.c. but at least this summer so far I have not wished I did. Oscillating fans have been fine and even those haven’t been needed quite as much as usual. Weather has also meant not having to do any watering of shrubs, which we have a lot of. But it has washed away a lot of the blossoms on my various patio and deck potted annuals (which of course I also have not had to water).</p>
<p>We’re having a summer of record cool temps as well as record amounts of rain here in Toronto. It seems that for every sunny day we have, we then get four or five days of rain and I’m not talking showers. We’ve had lots of torrential downpours and also thunderstorms. I don’t recall ever having a summer quite like this.</p>
<p>owlice, why is it that cats (and dogs!) run for the nearest carpeted room when they feel the need to vomit? It seems like they all do it.</p>
<p>We had a dry morning. We’re supposed to get thunderstorms this afternoon. Lots of people at the tennis courts getting their game in before it rains.</p>
<p>LakeWashington - </p>
<p>Yes, this is a record-setting wet and cool summer for the NE. You might find the following article interesting - </p>
<p>[The</a> New York Times > Log In](<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/01/nyregion/01hot.html?_r=3&hp]The”>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/01/nyregion/01hot.html?_r=3&hp)
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<p>I wish some of it would head down to south Texas.</p>
<p>Or to Seattle…</p>
<p>I’m in clover. Or rather, my garden is…:(</p>
<p>Another rainy/crappy day here on L.I. I feel really bad for my college kids. They’re home for the summer and work full time to earn enough money to cover their books and spending money for the academic year. They’re off from work on Sundays and one day during the week and it seems that any day that they’re off, the weather is terrible. I think they’ve given up on having any fun this summer. I suppose they should be happy that they’re making money but at this point in time, all they want is ONE day at the beach (which is only 10 minutes away).</p>
<p>Send it over here to California. We desperately need it.</p>
<p>Went to my exercise workout at the pool yesterday afternoon. O.K., they closed the outdoor pool because of showers. Fine. Understandable. But because of subsequent thunder and lightening the manager of the facility decided to close the indoor swimming pool as well. ??? I can only guess this was done because only a wall of mostly glass separates the indoor pools from the outdoor pool. Can lightening pass through or shatter glass? This rainy summer is determined to keep us from the waves both, natural and man made.</p>
<p>Our local YMCA does this too.</p>
<p>As others have mentioned, Saturday was beautiful. However, my mom, whom I adore, was visiting, and she doesn’t like “sun or sand, or the beach, actually” so no beach, or other outdoor activity. Sunday, after she left, the skies opened up. At least I did get a bike ride in first, so I don’t feel like I totally atrophied over the weekend.</p>