Dry

Dry is an understatement. After a record wet April, it basically stopped raining. The grey bar represents what is typical; the blue bar is the actual precipitation.  So in the last four months, we've had only 1/2 inch of rain, almost all of it in June.

I don't water the poor trees or large shrubs, and the "lawn" of course is dried to a crisp. That happens every summer, and it soon greens up when the fall rain starts. But our climate is becoming more like California: brown in the summer and green in the winter.

This is supposedly the last day of disgusting dirty air before the cool marine layer moves in tonight.  Being on a hill close to Puget Sound, we often get a sweet whiff of it here first.  Where does the evil smoke go?  I don't care, good riddance. Another spooky end-of-the-world sunrise and sunset.