Summer's Last Hurrah
Oct. 4th, 2021 01:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerWe've been enjoying a warm streak the past few days. High temperatures Friday and Saturday reached the mid to high 80s, and Sunday topped out at about 90°. It's only 84 right now but could get hotter mid-afternoon. For reference, the average high temperature here in early October is 75° (24° C).
I wish I could say we're really enjoying this warm weather but we're not. It's caught us sort of unprepared. We took a couple of trips in September, banking on warmer weather then, but we caught cold snaps both times. Many years September is our big summer travel month. Temps in hot places are cooler than in June/July/August, yet there's still warmth to go around; and with kids back in school popular destinations are less crowded. By October the weather becomes very hit-or-miss, with colder temperatures much more likely up in the mountains and rain starting to appear in West.
Well, hit-or-miss does mean sometimes hit. We spent a bit of time in our pool on Saturday to enjoy the warmth. We missed the opportunity yesterday; we had other plans already. I'll see if I can carve out a mid-afternoon "coffee break" for a dip in the pool today.
I wish I could say we're really enjoying this warm weather but we're not. It's caught us sort of unprepared. We took a couple of trips in September, banking on warmer weather then, but we caught cold snaps both times. Many years September is our big summer travel month. Temps in hot places are cooler than in June/July/August, yet there's still warmth to go around; and with kids back in school popular destinations are less crowded. By October the weather becomes very hit-or-miss, with colder temperatures much more likely up in the mountains and rain starting to appear in West.
Well, hit-or-miss does mean sometimes hit. We spent a bit of time in our pool on Saturday to enjoy the warmth. We missed the opportunity yesterday; we had other plans already. I'll see if I can carve out a mid-afternoon "coffee break" for a dip in the pool today.
