5 years later and it's rainin' again!

I wanted to revive my little blog and as I looked back through the few posts I've made over the past five years (where did time go?!), I noticed that I wrote about a wet spring five years ago. Well, here we are in the same situation 5 years later!

2009 has been one of the coolest springs in many years, and one punctuated with much moisture. The trend continues as we ease into a very cool and damn spring. I'm hoping we will recover before July ends so we get more than ONE month of 'summer'

Man, it seems that we've had some crummy weather the past ten years or so. I remember 12 years ago the beginning (at least in my mind) of this trend of substandard spring/summer weather came screaming in with a series of nasty wind storms in early spring. I vividly remember one wind storm that was so turbulent that the four story building I was working in was moving around a bit!

Over the next decade it seems that we've had very windy winters and summers, and cooler overall temperatures. I will need to substantiate my claim with data, but that is my sensory perception of our seasons during the past 10 years or so.

Now, as I look back through my blogs from five years ago and wonder about weather, waxing reflectively on the parallel between now and five years ago, I wonder if we are indeed locked in some sort of cooler weather pattern here in Upstate, NY. OR, if my perception of this 'trend' is askew. I should try to see how easy it would be to collect data to verify or refute my perception. Until then, here's hoping it warms up--- as I write this on June 30th at 7:47pm on my front porch, I am wearing pants, a sweatshirt, and I'm COLD!

Cheers,
Ben