You people in the 'lower 48' are farther ahead in the frost department than we in the Alaska panhandle. We have not had any frost- other than fresh snow on the mountains around us. Our high temperatures hover at 50 degrees Fahrenheit and it doesn't drop much at night.

Until recently you've had summer. This year we could hardly identify the season as such. It has stayed consistently cool (chilly?) and wet. It appears that we may go on into winter without a perceptible pause.

I volunteer as a tour guide at a local museum here in Juneau. Today a couple from Ireland visited and they said they had the worst summer ever in Ireland; sounded just like our weather.