3 days or 72 hours to the start of #summer on #PEI. #Greenwich #CountdownToSummer2023.
@LotSixteen I live in a Midwestern river valley, summer means mosquitoes the size of fighter jets and humidity in the 90s coupled with heat in the upper 90s lower 100s. It isn’t a season I look forward to. I prefer fall.
@cjcrew I can appreciate what you are saying. It's the humidity that gets you. Climate change has totally skewed our seasons here. It's like all the seasons have shifted and are showing up three to four weeks late. The summers are definitely hotter and dryer than what I grew up with Temps in the 30c + range are not unusual.
@LotSixteen I think we’re officially in a drought here. If not we’re damn close. We haven’t had a measurable rainfall in 3-4 weeks and the ground is rock hard and the grass is dying. The only thing really growing are the weeds.
@LotSixteen This is unusual for us, we usually get more rain than we need which isn’t good for the corn either. I moved back here 3 years ago and it seemed we’d been under flood warnings along the river for 2 1/2 of this 3 years.
@cjcrew There seems to be no happy medium with the weather.
@LotSixteen Sometimes there is. We had a really nice, kinda long (for this area anyway) spring break his year. Usually fall is the season that gives you the best weather though. Drier than spring, cooler than summer, usually anyway.
@LotSixteen I do detest the humidity in the summer. Right now the humidity is really low because of the drought so even the temps we’ve been having this week (high 80s) hasn’t felt as miserable as others.
@cjcrew the humidity cuts both ways. It makes summers feel hotter, and winters colder.
@LotSixteen Well me and all my personalities hate the humidity. We heard, “You know, it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity” so much growing up that it became a joke among me and my friends every time the weather was miserable. I think we did that out of self defense.
@cjcrew same here!
@cjcrew just reread your last post. You sure you aren't from Prince Edward Island?
@LotSixteen 😂 I imagine that saying is said everywhere that humidity reigns.
@cjcrew That doesn't sound good.
Used to be that our summers growing season always had enough rain. Now irrigation is almost a necessity. I have a friend who moved here from Southern California. She adapted to the East Coast fall, winter and spring I short order. Tge summer, however she detests because the humidity makes it feel hotter than Los Angeles.