Puget Sound and PNW residents

Woke up to fog and a cool, crisp 56° morning with slight breeze. Was able to ha e the house open until about 11:30am when the AC kicked on.

High today is 86°. Tomorrow will be 87°.

Then back to low 90s and gradually back to 101-105° weather. 🫠

Today, in the SW part of the state it’s 65 and raining. Too warm to wear a sweater but too wet to wear sandals.

I hope it’s just fake fall and we get a few more sunny days…

Wearing my puffer and uggs and it’s August. Depressing.

I’m so tired of the rain already and it’s only been a few days. lol.

I’m just hoping for no rain on Sunday because we moving then.

It’s currently 58 with drizzle at my house. I guess I’m in the minority here, but I don’t mind it. Most summers we have problems with wasps, hornets, yellow jackets and mud daubers and often have to pay a pest control company to come out. The cool weather in June and again right now has really kept those populations under control, so I have no complaints. It looks like it will be nice again by next Wednesday. I’m also not a hot weather person at all. Sunny and about 65 degrees is perfect for me.

I’m in N. Idaho just west of Coeur d’Alene and it was almost 90° yesterday and now it’s mid 50’s and raining. The wind is really howling as well.

It feels wrong to turn the heat on in August but I finally gave up because I was freezing.

I think it has been a stupid summer. Too many VERY hot (for us) days and now cold and rainy. Grrrr and then Brrrr

I'd love those temps! We have a heat advisory through the weekend here in Minnesota.

Northern Alberta it's 15C/59F this morning and is raining which we really need. I have a few windows open a bit for fresh air and fresh rain smell. Tonight 8C/46F. Yesterday was 27C/81F.

This last week we had a couple smokey days, then a couple cloudy days. Two days part sun, now it's cloudy again. Ugg, come back sun, we can't go more than a few days without it.

It is currently 62 right now and is supposed to get up to 71 later today.  This is after weeks of 90 to 105 degrees.  I am chipping away at the ground bark that I had delivered, putting it all around the front and back yards because the weeds here go nuts within a week if they are left to the open sunlight.  I can’t believe that there was zero mulch down in any of the planters.  

I have been getting up early and getting the bushes trimmed around the bottom so that I have access to the soil below them to place the wood chips.  But I have been only getting two bushes trimmed and three loads of wood chips in before it is so hot that I could barely walk back to the house.  And my blackberries are ripening so I have to stand out there and pick them before they get overly ripe.  The plants are loaded and they ripen in an odd manner.  In a stem of maybe 20 buds, there will be 3 fully ripe and ready to pick.  I had assumed the whole stem would ripen at the same time so that I could just cut it off and then pluck the berries off inside the house.  It is really time consuming because the branches are covered in sharp thorns and I have to be careful not to end up dripping blood.

Then earlier in the week we had a thunderstorm and a huge downpour so I stayed inside.  And while I was working out there yesterday, it started raining again. It wasn’t raining too hard and it actually felt great so I just kept working.  Fortunately I had finished mowing the grass before the rain started and I just needed to trim bushes and place more wood chips so doing that in the light rain felt really nice.  I should be out there right now, but I am being lazy today.  I haven’t even showered yet, I’ve just been laying around and watching Netflix.

Same.
We are in Grays Harbor. For these Alaskan transplants we are enjoying the cooler weather. Reminds us of Alaska in July. Lol.