Those of us who have lived in Central Oregon know that the summer season is very short. While much of the rest of the country has already been well-baked and dried out, up until 2 days ago we were still getting drenching rains. That in itself is rare; the west side of the Cascades is usually the "wet" side.
What isn't unusual is for the weather to finally heat up in late June/early July, and very suddenly too. On Tuesday (son's birthday, if you will recall!) it was cool, rainy, and in the 60's. Every day since then the temperatures have risen an average of 10 degrees per day. Currently, as I type this, the temp sits at 91. And the day's not over yet! In fact, son just got back from purchasing an air conditioner for his room...he doesn't deal with the heat well. Daughter is up at the lake with a friend...smart girl.
I hear people all the time say "Isn't this weather weird?". Well, not if you've been around here any length of time at all. It isn't outside the realm of possibility for there to be a sudden drop in degrees and snow in the forecast. Even in summer!
I am not a believer in so-called "global warming", "climate change" or whatever the current PC term for it is. If you look back in history (I did manage to fit history in here today, didn't I? hehe) you'll see that weather extremes have happened always. Warm winters, cool summers, glaciers melting, the sky falling, the boy who cried wolf one too many times. It's not new. Those who buy into this global warming stuff remind me of the goose (or was it a duck?) whose mind was a clean slate each new day, not remembering anything that he had learned in the past. Or maybe he hadn't bothered to learn anything in the first place.
Stay cool this weekend and remember your pets! Already today I saw a dog in a truck at the grocery store. Granted, it was morning and the truck windows were down all the way, but still....
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