It’s going to be a rainy and cool day tomorrow here in NC w/a high of 65—that’s about 30 deg cooler than it could be “normally”. It was cool enough this morning that I needed a sweater outside (59 at dawn). It warmed up to around 75.

We’ve only had a couple of 90 deg days when we could normally have a couple of dozen high 90s, even 100, and NC came out of a 7 yr drought about 3 yrs ago. For the most part, July and Aug have been much, much cooler than I can ever remember (weather historian says 70 yrs) with lots and lots of rain. But this pattern of periods of hot and dry, then cooler and rainier, summers has been modeled as part of climate change for the future.