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.
@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.
@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.