Tuesday, May 20, 2008

The Summer Begins in Earnest

I mentioned to Robert that our visit to the state park on Sunday morning might be our last chance to get out and enjoy before summer really started.

It's after 6:00 p.m. The temperature is 97 degrees. It got up to 101 this afternoon (a record high for the date).

Welcome to hell.

But this will be our last (full) summer in Austin. Winston-Salem, NC, where it is currently 75, or Blackburg, VA, where it is currently 61, are sounding better all the time.

1 comment:

rvman said...

I checked some averages earlier, and found that Austin's hottest month in relative terms is September - Austin has the 5th hottest September average high of the stations monitored by NOAA, after Yuma, Tucson, Las Vegas, and Phoenix. So if the summers seem to drag, here, it is because they do drag out longer here than most places.