Rain, rain, rain and more rain!

[sasvermont]

This summer MUST be setting a record in rain fall. We are getting rain right now and it is to rain all night. Tomorrow we are going to have no rain, an unusual event to say the least.

The average temperature has been quite tolerable here, as well. Although, tomorrow it is to get hot and humid. I think I have had the A/C on twice this summer, that's all.

I live in the upper western part of New England, close to the Canadian border. I live on an island in the middle of Lake Champlain, so water isn't a surprise for us....but this much rain is.....

The poor farmers are having a time of it with their crops. The island I live on has a few apple orchards and I wonder what all this rain and very little sun is doing to their crop production!

Is anyone else having extreme weather where they live?

My grass needs cutting so badly but I have to find a day when the grass in not WET!

Such problems!

[Daisy and Delilah]

I've lived in Florida basically all my life and it's hotter than I've ever remembered. We're getting late rain and thunderstorms that are dropping inches of rain every time. I've never seen so much rainfall at once as I've seen this year.

A couple of weeks ago, three nights in a row, it was cool ouside. Cool temps in the summer, with no rainfall on those days, is unheard of in this part of the state. I think the weather is getting stranger by the minute.

Our crops all over are suffering. We are feeling the pinch at the market.

[Karen]

We are south of you, down in Massachusetts, but have had rain, rain, and rain. We have had so much rain that yesterday, I actually saw a wood snail, out on our stone wall at the bottom of the driveway! I have never, ever in my life actually seen a live one, just found their delicate shells in damp, dark places when gardening.

I made Paul take pictures, I was so astounded!

[happylabs]

We had a hard rainstorm last week one night and I ended up getting water in my basement, just puddles but enough to make a mess and it stinks!

Friday we had another hard rainstorm, probably a couple inches through the day and now more puddles. Problem is I have my litter boxes down there and that in combination with the musty smells is pretty gross.

I spent yesterday morning cleaning it up, trying to sop up the water, etc. Put some plug in air fresheners in. Had to move a couple litter boxes so the kitties didn't have to walk through water.

I guess it is better than snow though!

[Medusa]

Same here, sometimes a thunderstorm, other times just rain. Today is the first day we haven't seen rain in weeks, yet they're predicting a 70% chance. Our winter was so brutally cold and so long that we were hoping for a nice, long, hot summer and instead it's been rainy and/or humid. Some days it only gets up to 62 but it's so humid that you can't go w/out the AC. Today it's 78 and the AC has been cranking nearly all day because of the humidity. Hardly any breeze either which, of course, makes it worse.

[Pam]

We have had way more rain than usual (at least in the recent past) this year. Friday night was crazy weather in these parts - lots of damage from rains and high winds. We lost power for over 5 hrs. and there are parts of NJ that have been without power even until today. Once again we had storms this morning. I was in church and you could hear the pounding on the roof. It was a-comin' down!

[Cookiebaker]

Right there with ya, SAS. The weeds are out.of.control in our driveway because of all the rain. I work on them every nice day we get, but its hard to keep on top of them. Also, we are in the middle of building a deck on our house, and have been delayed so much because of the rain. Its sad that summer is over half over....some of the leaves on the trees are already turning...and we haven't had many summer days yet.

[cassiesmom]

This summer MUST be setting a record in rain fall. We are getting rain right now and it is to rain all night. Tomorrow we are going to have no rain, an unusual event to say the least.

The average temperature has been quite tolerable here, as well. Although, tomorrow it is to get hot and humid. I think I have had the A/C on twice this summer, that's all.

I live in the upper western part of New England, close to the Canadian border. I live on an island in the middle of Lake Champlain, so water isn't a surprise for us....but this much rain is.....

The poor farmers are having a time of it with their crops. The island I live on has a few apple orchards and I wonder what all this rain and very little sun is doing to their crop production!

Is anyone else having extreme weather where they live?

My grass needs cutting so badly but I have to find a day when the grass in not WET!

Such problems!

We had a good, soaking rain on 4th of July. Haven't really had one since. If you could point some of that rain toward Chicago, please ... our grass is looking kind of brown and crunchy. We have not had a lot of "dog days of summer" where I've had to run the A/C; my electric bill looks good.

[Pam]

WOW Vermontcat! I love that rainbow picture! Just beautiful! As I was sitting in the dark after the power went out Friday night from the storm, I reminded myself to be thankful that all four of my walls were still standing. I was a little inconvenienced and totally bored (what can you do in the total dark?) but immediately felt ashamed for being so selfish when others lose their homes in tornadoes, etc. I guess we just need to keep our eyes open for rainbows and be thankful for what we have.