Hitting Peak

It would only be fitting that one of the most colorful periods of the year would slowly lead into one of the darkest.  Regardless of personal preference for favorite seasons, almost everybody enjoys autumn.  There are plenty of things to enjoy.  The nighttime chill, humidity free days, brilliant colors, rustling leaves, the way the sun shines like a spotlight along rolling hills.  Even the weather is hardly ever an obstacle.  No sizzling heat or blistering cold.  Severe weather, tornadoes and hurricanes are all history.  It is that rare span of time when the weather is indeed almost perfect. 

The summer deluge has finally come to an end.  The staggering two-month rainfall totals have been updated on the right.  Really some astounding numbers in about a 60 day total.  Hard to believe we will see numbers like this again anytime soon.  And now October has fallen right in line with what we would typically expect.  We dealt with some warmth, breath-seeing cold and the occasional rainy day.  More importantly, we’ve probably experienced as much sunlight in the last week and a half as we did the previous month.

I’ve reached my own little peak as this is my 100^th post on LV Weather.  This project has certainly taken off far more than my previous hockey blogs of which at one point I had three that combined probably wouldn’t reach 100.  And speaking of that, you could add that to one of the reasons why this time of the year is so nice.  The blades are back and the ice cold as another season has begun.  That will help to contribute to my lack of posts for the time being.  Once winter gets going though, I expect to be filling these pages again full of useful information.  Until then maybe I can find a clever way to combine hockey and weather into the same post. 

Coming up later this week, I dive into the predictions for this upcoming winter.  Will it be anything like the rainy season we’ve had?