For today:
I’ll always remember my first winter in Chicago, when one of the Chicago TV channels sent reporters out to interview the “man on the street” for their opinion.
TV reporter: “What do you think of this weather?”
Crusty old fart Chicagoan: “Is this a slow news day or somethin’? It’s December in Chicago, fer chrissakes.”
Yesterday was our first actual day of fall here in north Texas, oh yes it was. Temperatures in the low 60s, night time in the low 40s, and brisk, cold winds from the northwest… hell, I almost had to wear a light coat to the range, fer gosh sakes. (A gilet was all that was necessary.) From the forecast, it seems as though there’s no chance of any high temperatures popping up from now on, either. Yippee.
And all you guys in the northern states can quit your sniggering now. If ever I leave Texas — highly unlikely, absent a lottery win, and maybe not even then — it would be to escape the sweltering Texas summers, which are no damn joke (as much as we make jokes about them).
So the end of summer and the long-awaited fall — my favorite season, regardless of which state I’ve lived in — comes as a welcome relief.
In celebration of fall, my laptop’s wallpaper is this:
…although how I really feel is this:
Wouldn’t mind a little drizzle now and again, either.
Yesterday saw our first of 90+ degree daytime highs. Ugh.
But for the benefit of the Global Cooling Climate Warming Change© crowd, when I looked this phenomenon up, I noted that May 12 was the latest day in the past 43 years that the 90+ temperature arrived. Not that it matters too much. If the forecast for this week is to be believed, daytime highs will seldom reach the mid-80s, and drop into the high 70s by the coming weekend. Sunday, in other words, was something of an anomaly.
Welcome to a typical Texas spring, in other words.
Still, there is one benefit to our searing summer highs:
Oh yeah, baby… Daisy Dukes and skimpy lil’ tops, gawd love ’em.
Fucking hell, it’s cold out there. In Texas.
I went outside the night before last to fetch something from the car, and… cool weather. Okay, so it was close to midnight, so never mind, thinks I — I’m wise to Texas Weather Tricksies by now.
Then I went out yesterday morning at about 9am to run some errands, and… still cool. In fact, I had to step out from the shade into the sunlight to avoid shivering. When I set off in the car, I turned off the AC (for the first time since mid-May) and just cracked the windows to stay cool.
Wait, what? Could this be Global Cooling Climate Warming Change©?
Silly rabbit. By the time I turned to come back home, it was back to 92°F — that September Texas weather we all know and love.
I am so ready for the Fall to come.
It ain’t pretty, but at least it ain’t sweltering.
Summer forecast for the U.S. (courtesy of some little Mexican boy):
Ah well… there are a few benefits:
And that’s just at the mall. Gawd knows what it’s going to be like at the lakes and seaside… okay, maybe I do:
Oy.