Holy Buckets Of Cold Water, Batman!

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We broke a record here in Spokane. Eighty days in a row with no measurable rain. The old record of seventy-two days was set in 1917. But now–holy buckets of cold water, Batman! After all the dry weather we had, the heavens just opened up. I went to the store yesterday and when I got home rain poured out of the sky. I ran from my car to the house. About ten steps. The rain soaked me to my bone. And, of course, even though we almost broke a record for the most days of ninety degrees Fahrenheit (32º C) or above, it suddenly turned cold. Right now it’s forty-five degrees (7º C). Not winter cold, but cold for being soaking wet. And it’s still raining. The seasons here have been changing fast. What I mean is it was cold this spring and just turn hot a couple of days before summer and stayed hot all summer. Now tomorrow will be the first day of autumn and it just turn cold a few days ago. Before the turn in temperature it was in the eighties (27º to 30º C). Then, bam, down to forty-five degrees. Just like that. I would rather it dumped buckets of water than buckets of snow. Speaking of snow, it snowed in the mountains of Montana which is helping put out the forest fires. And this rain and cooler weather is helping the firefighters in the state of Washington. So I shouldn’t be complaining about getting a bit wet. I just wasn’t prepared for it to go from dry and hot to cold and wet. Now the sun is trying to shine.