September Already?!

Above, after the first snow last October. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

It seems like were were just in the month of July.

July whisked by since I spent a good portion of it traveling. First to the Chicago area for G-FEST and then a RV trip to Idaho, Wyoming and Utah. That trip was completed in early August.

Now we're in September. In 22 more days (September 23, to be exact), summer ends and autumn begins.

Hopefully this year, we will have a real autumn. Last year, it seemed like we skipped autumn as we were getting hit with cold and snowy weather. The first snow we had came on October 15 and it really didn't let up for months.

I would like to see some days where it is comfortable enough to do some autumn camping with temperatures during the day around 70° and nights around 50°.

The Old Farmer's Almanac predicts that two-thirds of the country will face a colder-than-normal winter season in 2020. Hopefully not.

Not So Much

Last night's snows weren't as much as last Sunday night's.

It began in the evening as rain and then turned into snow showers.

In case you're wondering about meteorological terminology about snow, here's what Almanac.com says about snow showers:

Officially, the National Weather Bureau says that a snow shower is steady but light snow that comes and goes in intervals. A snow flurry consists of harmless flakes of very light snow.

Here's some photos I took this morning. Although today's temperatures are expected to remain in the 30s, this will probably be gone by this afternoon.

Rough Winter Predicted By Old Farmer's Almanac

Above, The Three Brothers and Bridalveil Fall are shrouded in clouds at Yosemite National Park. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Depending upon where one is located, predictions of a harsh winter may be welcome news.

Some areas of the U.S. will have severe winter weather, while other areas may be drier than usual. California, for instance, is still in a drought. Will the state get enough rain this winter to get out of the drought?

According to an article in Travel + Leisure:

It’s hard to think of snow and freezing temperatures when you’re sweating through an August heat wave, but those of us in cooler climates will be wearing puffy coats, hats, and gloves soon enough. And the winter ahead might be a harsh one, at least according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, the periodical reference book published since 1792, which just announced its long-range weather predictions featured in its 2017 edition.

The Old Farmers's Almanac supposedly has an 80% accuracy rate.

In Los Angeles, we really didn't have our normal "June gloom" of foggy/overcast days in June. July felt more like a normal August and this August has been the mildest I've experienced (not that I'm complaining) in years. (My electric bill has been lower than usual for this month.) Does this mean that autumn weather will be arriving faster than usual in L.A.?

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