Welcome, Autumn! The heater is back on :)

On Labor Day weekend, summer officially ended. Not per the calendar, but per nature. That weekend, we had a cold front roll in, complete with precipitation (a rare thing, these days)! Since then, temps got into the low 80s once, maybe twice in the 80917 zip code. Only yesterday, the 14th of September, we had record breaking rain fall amounts. It rained over 4 1/2 inches in Colorado Springs in 24 hours. Keep in mind, we generally get around 17 inches of precipitation per year. We basically got a fourth of our yearly rainfall amount in 24 hours. My poor sister's basement flooded as a result of this deluge. Today, we were graced by beautiful fog, and periodic rain. It was lovely.

One HOT Summer!

This summer has been miserably hot, like much of the U.S. this year. From Mike Madson's blog, http://cordillerablogs.com/mmadson/, he states that, "The weather service tells me that the average high for the summer (in Colorado Springs) to this point has been 88 degrees. If it stays that high when August is over, (no guarantees), it WOULD make it the warmest summer on record." Holy cow! I guess global warming isn't fiction, after all - LOL.

Today, however, is the first of September, the first Burr month of 2012. And sadly, the highs are predicted to be in the lower 90's. On the plus side, the temps at night and in the evening/morning have been getting cooler.