Where Did Summer Go?
Sep. 17th, 2023 10:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerWhere did summer go? As I wrote recently in the blog of a friend, who was also complaining about the summer going by too fast, "That it's not June anymore, I accept. But isn't it still early July?"
April and May were busy months. We had a few trips in April, then a few more in May. Those were good times. But a bunch of other places we hoped to travel this year just never happened. Partly that's because of the weather. Record precipitation this winter dumped record snows in the mountains. The long, cool spring we then had meant high mountain roads and trails didn't get clear of snow until late July.
It's not just that time this summer has been slipping away. Now even the summer weather is slipping away. We're traveling on the east coast this weekend, in the lower mountains (1,000 ~ 3,000 ft. elevation), and here the daily highs are only in the 70s. Even back home the highs in the low- to mid 70s. Isn't there something between the 90s, which we had for several weeks, and the 70s? Didn't we name something "the 80s" just for that?
I grew up out on the east coast, and September always used to be my favorite month of the year. It was still warm but not hot like summer. The same goes for California, my home of the past many years. California gets loooong summers. I've never seen the weather switch cool like this so early before.
Of course, this all might just be cold snap, a temporary fluke of the weather. We'll see in another week if summer just took a late-summer vacation or if fall fell early.
April and May were busy months. We had a few trips in April, then a few more in May. Those were good times. But a bunch of other places we hoped to travel this year just never happened. Partly that's because of the weather. Record precipitation this winter dumped record snows in the mountains. The long, cool spring we then had meant high mountain roads and trails didn't get clear of snow until late July.
“That it's not June anymore, I accept. But isn't it still early July?”
By then we felt like we had missed the window for planning things. A lot of high mountain trips we intended, even just overnight/weekend trips, never materialized. Once summer weather finally arrived, the time just seemed to slip through our fingers.It's not just that time this summer has been slipping away. Now even the summer weather is slipping away. We're traveling on the east coast this weekend, in the lower mountains (1,000 ~ 3,000 ft. elevation), and here the daily highs are only in the 70s. Even back home the highs in the low- to mid 70s. Isn't there something between the 90s, which we had for several weeks, and the 70s? Didn't we name something "the 80s" just for that?
Isn't there something between the 90s, which we had for several weeks, and the 70s? Didn't we name something "the 80s" just for that?
While weather with highs in the 70s is pleasant weather it's no longer summer (or summer-y) weather. Summer's not even over yet! It's supposed to be warmer than this.I grew up out on the east coast, and September always used to be my favorite month of the year. It was still warm but not hot like summer. The same goes for California, my home of the past many years. California gets loooong summers. I've never seen the weather switch cool like this so early before.
Of course, this all might just be cold snap, a temporary fluke of the weather. We'll see in another week if summer just took a late-summer vacation or if fall fell early.
