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Subject: BS: Summer is over: It's official. From: GUEST,Oakville Date: 01 Sep 08 - 04:51 PM Summer has come to a close yesterday, the Met office said the last day of August ends summer. Their figures confirmed what most of us already knew,that this year's summer has been one of the wettest on record. What summer? When we think back to childhood, we all remember long hot summers, so is it any wonder we feel cheated out of our ration of sunshine. The summer of 2008 was the seventh wettest in over fifty years, Christ I can't recall a wetter one. Interesting figures, just 96 hours of sunshine brightened up Britain this August,compared to the average 200 hours we usually get. The wet and windy summer has caused a dramatic failure in crops too, causing the price of fruit to soar by almost 300 per cent. Farmers were hoping for an Indian summer to help the crops dry before being harvested but according to forecasters the unsettled, wet conditions which made August one of the dullest on record, are here to stay. Ever notice, when farmers put prices up because of a wet summer, they never bring the prices down. |
Subject: RE: BS: Summer is over: It's official. From: GUEST,Mr. Fancy Pants Date: 01 Sep 08 - 05:23 PM And I would like to remind everyone the faux pas is not to wear white pants after today. |
Subject: RE: BS: Summer is over: It's official. From: Liz the Squeak Date: 01 Sep 08 - 05:30 PM 1984 was a pretty damp year. This year it's all Micca's fault. The best weather we had was during the 3 weeks he was out of the country. I think he's some sort of rain-centred deity... clouds follow him and rain on him out of a sense of duty. And I never wear white pants... they show the dirt that is the bane of the public transport users' life. LTS |
Subject: RE: BS: Summer is over: It's official. From: MaineDog Date: 01 Sep 08 - 06:16 PM Nonsense, especially in Maine. Summer will last well into October, despite a few cold snaps. The best weather is just beginning to arrive. The only problem is that the days are getting shorter. Remember the equinox is not for about 3 weeks! MD |
Subject: RE: BS: Summer is over: It's official. From: KT Date: 01 Sep 08 - 06:21 PM Hmmm....Liz, it rained the entire time he was here, too! |
Subject: RE: BS: Summer is over: It's official. From: katlaughing Date: 01 Sep 08 - 06:25 PM I agree, MaineDog! |
Subject: RE: BS: Summer is over: It's official. From: Bill D Date: 01 Sep 08 - 06:36 PM "Summer ist outgoin out, Lhude sing cocoa.. Bringeth school and Bits of cool, and..... never mind... I find it easier to dress for cooler weather anyway. |
Subject: RE: BS: Summer is over: It's official. From: DougR Date: 01 Sep 08 - 06:47 PM Whoever made the rules never visited Arizona in September or most of October. DougR |
Subject: RE: BS: Summer is over: It's official. From: Jeri Date: 01 Sep 08 - 06:48 PM I think summer ended right about when I got back from Canada in July. The mosquitoes don't know it though. Also, when I left the house around 1PM, a tree frog had found himself a perch on my screen door handle. He was there when I came home and he's still there. A little while ago, he was in the process of swallowing something, so he's useful as well as decorative. (Yes, I have photos.) I love autumn. I just don't like the thought of impending winter. The days have been beautiful, when the air feels like you're lying in cool water. The nights have made me think of bonfires and shared blankets. Sweet, but winter's too damned close. |
Subject: RE: BS: Summer is over: It's official. From: john f weldon Date: 01 Sep 08 - 06:52 PM Try to remember the kind of September when... See you, in September.... It's a long long way from May to December... ...well, I guess this is nostalgia month.... |
Subject: RE: BS: Summer is over: It's official. From: GUEST,Jack the Sailor Date: 01 Sep 08 - 08:27 PM On the planet Earth, in the northern hemisphere, summer ends around the 22 of September. Where are y'all login in from? |
Subject: RE: BS: Summer is over: It's official. From: Joe_F Date: 01 Sep 08 - 09:00 PM Yes, but in the U.S. it's Labor Day, which by a curious convention I have never understood is the *social* end of summer. Silly people stop going to the beach, even tho there are plenty of nice warm days left. And, at least in my childhood, it was a dreadful faux pas to wear a straw hat -- not that I have ever been in danger of breaking that taboo. |
Subject: RE: BS: Summer is over: It's official. From: Bill D Date: 01 Sep 08 - 09:42 PM curious convention? naaawww...it's school, no matter what the weather man says. Entire families agenda changes about Sept. 1st. |
Subject: RE: BS: Summer is over: It's official. From: Desert Dancer Date: 01 Sep 08 - 09:42 PM DougR, you're in Phoenix, aren't you? In the deserts of southern Arizona we've got summer (May-June, outrageously hot and dry), monsoon season (July-mid-August, marginally less hot, stormy), and second summer (mid-August-early-October, outrageously hot and dry). This year, second summer's running late (yay!), we had a big storm last night, a pretty cool weekend overall. I just hope that the second summer ends early. It's killer when there are >100 degree (F) temperatures in October, especially for those of us non-natives who didn't come here for the "warmth". ~ Becky in Tucson |
Subject: RE: BS: Summer is over: It's official. From: GUEST,guest, astro Date: 02 Sep 08 - 01:02 AM In Los Angeles, the hot part of the year is July August, Sept through the beginning of October...I had a neighbor who was retired from the weather service who stated for LA, the weather changes at Yom Kippur. It is hot (in the 80's here)...then the season will change....June btw, is mostly known as June Gloom.... Astro sweltering in LA...and just got back from Tucson where it poured last night... |
Subject: RE: BS: Summer is over: It's official. From: topical tom Date: 02 Sep 08 - 09:26 AM Here in my neck of the woods (Quebec) Summer ends officially about September 22 but a certain nostalgia, even melancholy, sets in after Labour Day when the children are back at school.I remember when, as a child, Summer, with its hazy, lazy days, seemed to stretch on forever, an endless parade of sunny, carefree days.Aaaaahhhh...nostalgia... |
Subject: RE: BS: Summer is over: It's official. From: Wolfgang Date: 02 Sep 08 - 09:58 AM A cartoon from the Irish Times early in August this year: A couple sits in a car with a torrential rain outside. One of them says to the other: "Cheer up, summer will soon be over". Wolfgang |
Subject: RE: BS: Summer is over: It's official. From: topical tom Date: 02 Sep 08 - 02:29 PM Summer is certainly not over here in Quebec;it's 32 degrees at this moment with barely a cloud in the sky.Not too humid yet though, thank God! |
Subject: RE: BS: Summer is over: It's official. From: mouldy Date: 03 Sep 08 - 12:14 PM Well I was anticipating the onset of an Indian Summer, which has usually, in the last few years, kicked in round here just about the time the kids go back to school. However, I went out early this morning in a quite Autumnal sunny morning, and the big lime tree in next door's garden has already started to lose its leaves. It's now grey and miserable again. (5pm). Andrea |
Subject: RE: BS: Summer is over: It's official. From: Liz the Squeak Date: 03 Sep 08 - 12:26 PM I am reminded of an old Goon show episode (The Terror of Bexhill on Sea or... The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler), where Minnie Bannister and Henry Crun are walking along the cliffs at Bexhill. Minnie: What a nice summer evening - typically English. Crun: Mnk, yes - the rain's lovely and warm - I think I'll take one of my sou'westers off! LTS |
Subject: RE: BS: Summer is over: It's official. From: open mike Date: 03 Sep 08 - 01:48 PM hottest, driest summer for a long time here in Calif. and more acres burned than ever before....and fire season has a couple of more months to go yet. we started fire season on june 21 summer solstice with lighting storms which ignited thousands of fires. some are burning yet and will be smouldering way past fall equinox sept 21. in the goodle days school would never start til after labor day (last weekend in august/first weekend in sept) but now it often starts in july. summer vacation used to be for field and crop work to be done when agriculture was more family oriented. many kids in nebraska had jobs de-tassleing corn in the summer for seed corn companies. http://www.epinions.com/kifm-review-BA4-BF9632C-39861757-prod1 |
Subject: RE: BS: Summer is over: It's official. From: Irene M Date: 03 Sep 08 - 02:30 PM Of course it's over. Summer was a day in April, if I recall. Irene in Derby |
Subject: RE: BS: Summer is over: It's official. From: open mike Date: 03 Sep 08 - 05:25 PM oh, you mean 32 degrees celsius or centigrade.. i was thinking it was freezing alreadhy! it was over 100 F last week here. |
Subject: RE: BS: Summer is over: It's official. From: artbrooks Date: 03 Sep 08 - 07:48 PM I'm with Becky...well, not exactly - 300 miles or so north and a bit east. We'll have shorts and sandals weather here in Albuquerque at least until the end of October - long trou and maybe a light sweater about that time. Then Autumn will set in, followed in March by Spring. Winter? We don't need no freeking Winter!! |
Subject: RE: BS: Summer is over: It's official. From: Peace Date: 03 Sep 08 - 07:53 PM Right now in Hinton, Alberta, I am freezing my ass off. Don't know if it's age or the weather, but by the feel of things it's gonna be one bad winter here. |
Subject: RE: BS: Summer is over: It's official. From: Peace Date: 03 Sep 08 - 08:00 PM I oughta point out that we get strange weather here. By cold I mean it's gonna be over a month of 30-35 below with the odd cold spell thrown in. Usually we get one period of about three weeks like that. I think we'll get two of 'em back to back. Going to be a hard year for cougars because they need fresh kills in winter time. Their dentition doesn't allow for them to eat frozen flesh. I hope the rabbit population is up. Something to check anyway. |
Subject: RE: BS: Summer is over: It's official. From: michaelr Date: 03 Sep 08 - 08:50 PM Summer ain't over in Northern California (hi Laurel!) -- it's 97 degrees right now. I bet we won't see any rain until November or later. Cheers, Michael |