Summer ended ten days ago, and winter began yesterday with the first snows in the high country. In a previous blog I suggested an early winter. Now I'm sure of it.

It's been raining for the past two days, almost unheard of for August. I'm not talking about thunderstorms, I'm talking about the monsoon that should have occured in June. When the first REAL blast of polar air collides with this moist air coming up from the Gulf we are going to have ... (and I'll commit my prediction in writing here and now) ... eighteen inches of snowfall sometime in late September.

And if it isn't eighteen inches of snow then it will be four inches of hail. I've seen both though not in many, many years.

That's it, I don't have much more to say. My wife and I had been hoping to get some sun over the past few days but it didn't happen. It's not going to happen till Monday, which is when she starts her new job, so for her the season of the sun is now effectively over.