Weather Update: Summer with a Vengeance

June 13th, 2005,

It’s been hot and stormy here, with dazzling displays of storm clouds that sometimes make the sky look like a bubbling cauldron. It got up to the low nineties early this week, with high humidity. All that energy in the atmosphere produced rain, of course. We continue to get lots of it–including almost three inches June 8.

The mosquitoes, deer flies, and ticks are out now. Ah, the joys of summer! My wife looked frazzled last evening when she reported that mosquitoes had been swarming around her; later she found a “spider” crawling on her shirt, which turned out to be a tick.

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