Are you having a normal summer time/wintertime where you are?

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Today is June 23, 2023. By this time, my air conditioner usually has been on since May 1. I do not do well in heat. It dawned on me that it's June and I have only used my AC for about a couple of hours for the month???????? I'm not sure if it just me in my little section of Northeastern Pennsylvania, or this is more worldwide. Are you having a normal summertime/wintertime where you are?
 
My place in southern Ohio is kind of like Fuzzy's. I keep getting ,my winter sweatshirts back out, then the next day it's T-shirt time and then back again.

The main thing I've noticed is that the peak heat is at about five in the after noon when it used to be at two.

We went out for an hour this morning and left a window open, came home to a house full of humidity. We have to keep the AC going even when it's 72 outside to kept the humidity down. I smoothed out my hair this morning and already it looks like a tumbleweed on my head.
 
Nope for last year or 18 months weather has been 'unusual'. Our last fire in 2022 was 2nd week of June, and it rained more than usual the last two weeks June. Then we had fewer weeks of real summer--windows open fans needed in daytime--summer. Then Autumn drug out thru December with only 1 or two dusting of pre New Year's snows that melted by end of day. But nights cold enough to keep fire going all night. January thru March instead of the steady cold we usually have, We'd have two three days of heavy snows then much warmer days so it'd melt and we had more mud then snow/ice like we usually do those months.

The nights stayed cold enough for fire thru first week of June but hasn't been warm enough to open windows till this week. Luckily the construction of our house tends to hold the overnight cool so inside temps in low 70s when outside is climbing to mid or high 80s. But having been changing to lighter weight curtains and opening windows.

i know i saw one weather program that was predicting some extreme weather for both Southeast (worrisome tropical storms) and Northwest-Northcentral USA (cold and some snow on mountains)---and my area of NM sits just about where the two areas meet...so we're just taking each day as it comes.
 
We just had the hottest, driest May on record. There hasn’t been significant rain on the days when it finally did and now we’re heading into the heat.

Hopefully it’s not going to be another heat dome like 2021 with temperatures in the 50C/120F range.
 
We have had much hotter weather for the last 3 years..this is the fourth year... here in the South it's the hottest part of the Uk anyway.. but even hotter now. Genrally speaking Brits do not have AC in our homes.. because really a month or 6 weeks of high 70's low 80's is easy to cope with... but this last few years have seen temps regulalrly in the 90's here ...
 
It depends on what you call normal. Certainly the drought we've had the last few years was not normal as compared to the period before it. Now the weather pattern has changed again and we have been flooded daily over and over. Wet weather but not this much is normal here for May and into June, it's just much wetter and cooler than the last period. We didn't hit 80 degrees until last weekend and then only for one day.

Typically we have wet weather from the middle of July into August but we'll see. Years ago we had summers where there was a nice rain shower, enough to water vegetation, every afternoon. That was a pattern for several years. That period of time was great.

On the other hand I grew up during a very dry period with not nearly enough moisture and lots of blowing dust as a regular part of the weather pattern.

Going forward (after last night's flood) we are supposed to dry out and heat up.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Are you having a normal summertime/wintertime where you are?
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I'm not that very far from you, and I've noticed this, yes... today is 68 and raining so it's more like early or mid May than late June. NOT complaining, though... 66-68 is my all-time perfect temp but I wouldn't complain about 58 either. Never did well when it gets above 75. 😓
 
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No. It has only rained a little over 1/2 inch in the last month and a half! The lawn is brown. We had a drought last summer too, but not this early. Today there is rain to the west, east, and south of us, but not here. Sure glad I am not a farmer!

On the bright side, I have not had to mow the lawn for 3 weeks now. And we have plenty of water for the garden.

Last winter? Don't get me started on that bad memory!
 
Hotter than blazes here. Houston, Texas like a furnace. Relentless. Only relief if you can call it that is real early morning, like the 30min of civil twilight. Soon as the sun pops above the horizon it heats up. Fast.

Had two surprise pop-up storms in the last week. Late evening. Damaging high winds. Frightening lightening. Little rain. Wreaked havoc with the power grid and power transmission lines. No power ~4-6hrs before it came back on. Still ~40K people in the metro area without power and no promise of power until late in the upcoming weekend. Feel for them. We're fortunate. So far.

City and County have opened up cooling centers at public libraries. We keep a full tank of fuel in the truck in the event it becomes necessary to use its A/C for cool down during power outage.

So, no. It is not a normal summer. Although my gut tells me this is the new normal and what to expect if not worse in times coming.
 
Except for a few unusually hot days in May, it's been spring temps here, but very dry with little rain. The temperatures have been ranging from the high 60s to the low 80s. We're finally getting some rain today, and it's forecasted to continue off and on throughout the week. That's okay with me, we need it.
 
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