The Temperature’s Rising, but the Rain isn’t Falling
We’re here at the beginning of the last week of Dog Days, the warmest part of the year, and the temperatures haven’t been disappointing. Highs over the last few days have been in the mid 90s, five or six degrees above normal. Both June and July saw 97 degrees, though, which we haven’t seen in August. Be glad we aren’t in Texas, where temperatures have been over 100 degrees for the last three or four days.
At least Texas is going to get a bit of a break with Tropical Storm Edouard getting ready to bring plenty of rain to much of the Bluebonnet state. I wish the same could be said for here, where I’ve had less than two tenths of an inch of precipitation in the last two weeks. Most of my plants are wilting, and it’s a challenge to try to use my little bit of watering time to apply first aid to the plants that are showing stress the most. As I said in my last post, other areas have had no problem with rainfall, but the thunderstorm gods haven’t decided to visit my corner of Gwinnett county.
Rain chances may increase on Wednesday or Thursday, though. Models indicate that a cold front could pass through midweek. The problem is that typically Georgia doesn’t get cold fronts in the dog days of summer–they usually don’t have enough energy to get this far south. Accuweather is optimistic, though, calling for over an inch of rain before Friday. I hope they’re right.
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