Season's Change
This is a follow-up/continuation from my myspace blog
With all of this heat going on in the Pacific North West, I thought it would be nice to compare how things normally are here, compared to South East Texas, where I used to live.
From the almost 10 months that we have been here, we have gotten to see a decent pattern to the seasons. Just about every three months, the season's change. Those seasons pretty much line up with how things are supposed to work, which is quite different from SETexas.
You see, in SETexas, summer is a little longer, and the rest of the seasons are shortened versions of themselves. Summer normally starts by the beginning of April. My reasoning for this, is that the entire month of April will see highs in the 80's, while March can see some highs down into the low 70's. Therefore, April starts off the summer, or what I like to call Summer I. This is categorized by highs slowing building from the low 80's, to the low 90's in late July. Also, the average rainfall goes from .1 inches, to .25 inches. Of course, the rain never comes like that, you can have a week with no rain, followed by one day of over 3 inches. Also, there is a slight paranoia and nervousness with the beginning of hurricane season.
August begins Summer, part two, the revenge. With August, the highs have levelled off in the 90's, but it gets warm fast each day. You know it is Summer II, when the phrase "80 by 8, 90 by noon," can be used on a daily basis. With August, however, a new problem emerges, hurricanes. Although hurricane season started back with June, it is not until August that Atlantic hurricanes become a threat.
October finally finishes out Summer II, and pretty much the end of the hurricane season. The daily highs start dropping lower and lower until it drops just below the 80 degree mark by October 31. Note, that is the average, it can either be in the 80's on Oct 31, or below 70. Either shorts, or a light jacket (by SETexas standards).
November brings about fall, which will last until late December. No really cold temperatures, at least by anyone else's standards. For November, the 20 degree split has the highs around 70, and the lows around 50. This trend continues through the end of December, with the highs reaching 60, and the lows dropping to around 40, though you will still have your occasional 80 degree day once in a while, and the occasional day where the high doesn't even make it out of the 30's. These two days, can happen in the same week, almost back-to-back even.
With January comes winter, which simply continues the temperatures of fall, but with fewer 80 degree days.
With February, we start the see the temperatures climb back up, with the coming of spring. Highs start to approach 70, with more 80 degree days than in the winter month. March continues this trend until the start of summer on April 1.
That about finished that.
With all of this heat going on in the Pacific North West, I thought it would be nice to compare how things normally are here, compared to South East Texas, where I used to live.
From the almost 10 months that we have been here, we have gotten to see a decent pattern to the seasons. Just about every three months, the season's change. Those seasons pretty much line up with how things are supposed to work, which is quite different from SETexas.
You see, in SETexas, summer is a little longer, and the rest of the seasons are shortened versions of themselves. Summer normally starts by the beginning of April. My reasoning for this, is that the entire month of April will see highs in the 80's, while March can see some highs down into the low 70's. Therefore, April starts off the summer, or what I like to call Summer I. This is categorized by highs slowing building from the low 80's, to the low 90's in late July. Also, the average rainfall goes from .1 inches, to .25 inches. Of course, the rain never comes like that, you can have a week with no rain, followed by one day of over 3 inches. Also, there is a slight paranoia and nervousness with the beginning of hurricane season.
August begins Summer, part two, the revenge. With August, the highs have levelled off in the 90's, but it gets warm fast each day. You know it is Summer II, when the phrase "80 by 8, 90 by noon," can be used on a daily basis. With August, however, a new problem emerges, hurricanes. Although hurricane season started back with June, it is not until August that Atlantic hurricanes become a threat.
October finally finishes out Summer II, and pretty much the end of the hurricane season. The daily highs start dropping lower and lower until it drops just below the 80 degree mark by October 31. Note, that is the average, it can either be in the 80's on Oct 31, or below 70. Either shorts, or a light jacket (by SETexas standards).
November brings about fall, which will last until late December. No really cold temperatures, at least by anyone else's standards. For November, the 20 degree split has the highs around 70, and the lows around 50. This trend continues through the end of December, with the highs reaching 60, and the lows dropping to around 40, though you will still have your occasional 80 degree day once in a while, and the occasional day where the high doesn't even make it out of the 30's. These two days, can happen in the same week, almost back-to-back even.
With January comes winter, which simply continues the temperatures of fall, but with fewer 80 degree days.
With February, we start the see the temperatures climb back up, with the coming of spring. Highs start to approach 70, with more 80 degree days than in the winter month. March continues this trend until the start of summer on April 1.
That about finished that.
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