How's your weather?

[Pam]

As I looked out the window this morning to yet another wet day I couldn't help but wonder how many of us are being deluged with rain these days. I know the east coast is said to be getting more of its share than other parts of the country, but how are my fellow Pet Talkers faring? The weatherman said yesterday that out of the past 16 days in Philadelphia (10 miles from me) 14 have had some sort of measurable rain. I am beginning to mildew I think! I know it is better than the last few years where we had a drought, but I would really prefer a more even weather pattern. How about you? I would welcome comments from other countries as well!

[Ally Cat's Mommy]

Here in Bahrain our temp is 107, but the APPARANT temperature is 130, with humidity at 90% and NO BREEZE at all!

Last week it was a bit cooler, but we had dust storms which reduced visibility to 400 meters!

I never thought I'd say this but.......I wish it would rain

[zippy-kat]

Send the rain this way!! It's been in the 100s!

[Rachel]

Midwest - western suburbs of Chicago reporting in. We've had a lot of rain this summer, usually at night, although sometimes in the daytime as well. The grass is lush and green as are all the trees and shrubs and the weeds....well, they are growing like weeds. Hardly a typical August. The best part though is the temperature. It really cools off at night (in the 50's) and I love to sleep with the windows open and use some covers. We haven't had to use the air conditioner more than 5 times, all summer. I call this our Maine summer.

[Barbara]

99 F since 14 days. The hottest summer for ages. From Thursday they say it should be cooler but there will still be no rain.

[anna_66]

Luckily we've had some fairly nice weather so far this month, but last month was a different story (kinda like yours Pam ).
We had 12" in 12 days We still haven't dried out, we keep getting downpours every few days so the ground is still saturated. Some places are flooding

[micki76]

It’s horrible here! 100-109 then factor in the humidity and 110-120! Yuck!!! No rain for 2 months until Saturday and we got a quick 5 minute shower. I can’t wait for winter when it’ll get down below 70! This is usually when I start talking to hubby about moving out of Texas and then the weather finally cools off. Then in January everyone up north is snowed in and I love it here again!

[Randi]

Pam, I can tell you, we're not freezing in Europe! We have had a heatwave here for the last weeks. In England, it was hotter than in Africa (Equator) the other day. We're a bit further north in Scandinavia, but still, it's more than enough! Today, early afternoon, we have 82° and it doesn't drop much in the night. Humidity is 42%. As I write this, I see scattered light clouds coming.

[cloverfdx]

Western Victoria, Australia weather report

at the moment 11:29 pm monday night it is about 5 Degree's, going for about 10 degree's tomorrow (but im most likly going to melbourne and on the news it said melbourne is going for 17 degree's tomorrow *heat wave* )

saturday night (the 9th) it got down to minus 5 degree's, everything was frozen (the dogs outside water bowls, puddles etc)

and we still need that damn rain or else the water restrictions will get even tighter.

[RubyMutt]

Up until just a few days ago we've been having very hot & dry weather. There's massive wild forrest fires going on in Eastern Washington Since about last Thursday it's been raining off and on (we even had a thunder shower yesterday ), so hopefully that has helped control the fires some.

[babolaypo65]

Quit hogging all the rain! (j/k), we should be having daily rains this month and last but havent had any! its not as hot up here as it has been where zippy is, but it's still bad. Usually the summer rains take the temp down...

Send them our way! (actually they are predicting some rains this week!)

[bluekat]

Its been kind of hot here for the whole week. We've had a little bit of rain yesterday. So the weather's not too bad.

[MammaMangorin]

Sun...

[Edwina's Secretary]

Hasn't it been a wonderful summer Rachel? I sit here today -- in August!!! with the windows open and the air conditioning off. Most of the rain has been during the week and weekends have been clear. We have only had to water the lawn once and it is so green! I may have to set up a stand in front of the house to sell my herbs -- they are growing like weeds!

We went to the Jersey Shore one weekend to go sailing with my sister and her husband. Yeah right! We watched it rain on the Jersey Shore!

[DoggiesAreTheBest]

Well, The sun comes up at around 4:30 here (you don't get to sleep in very late ) and it gets pretty hot by 9:00. The temperature has been about 96-100. And it's monsoon season here. It pours for about an hour or so, only at night when the weather is already cool

Makes me miss summers back home in Lebanon!