Autumn watch

Carol and I went for a walk this evening. We stopped at our tiny garden our in front of our building, and picked the deadheads off the cosmos. The cosmos are starting too look a little blowsy, the chrysanthemum is blooming already, and the aster is getting big. We walked down to the waterfront under dark clouds and occasional spitting rain. The cool air prompted me to zip up my rain coat to stay warm.

As we walked along, I noticed some brown dead leaves had accumulated in a small stairwell near the docks. Putting my own thoughts into words, Carol said, “Oh, it feels like fall.” Cool and rainy, the sun setting noticeably earlier, it did feel like fall this evening. I know perfectly well that we will have many more hot, humid days before summer is truly over. But this evening, we could feel that fall is on its way.

4 thoughts on “Autumn watch

  1. Jean

    Wow. lucky you. It has been in the high nineties here for days. Heat index of 100+.
    We are sweltering in the midwest. Supposed to be better today. High eighties I think.

  2. DadH

    Saturday, here in Concord it was 58 degrees at 7 am. Even though the leaves are still green that is a definite indication that it is nearly the end of summer.

  3. ogre

    DadH, all those traditional devices are now unreliable. Global warming means that the weather patterns are disrupted, unstable (changing…) and will tend towards more extremes. So abnormal heat and abnormal cool are both going to occur….

    That said, it shouldn’t be surprising. MID-summer is June 21/22. So… by early August, fall is peeking over the horizon. But the hottest weather’s likely still coming. System lag.

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