Face it: it’s human nature to complain about the weather. How many days in a week do we take some verbal swipe at it?
But not tonight. It’s absolutely gorgeous out there (here?), with sunshine, temperatures in the low 80s, and a freshness to the air that hints at the crispness of autumn.
And to think it’s Aug. 12.
It wasn’t enough that clouds kept residents of Wichita from getting a good look at the peak of the Perseid meteor shower early this morning.
Those clouds brought more rain to a city that has seen plenty of it so far this year. The .05 pushed Wichita’s total rainfall amount to just under 33 inches, which is already more than the city averages for an entire year.
……even in historically arid August.
The soggy weekend pushed the rainfall total in Wichita to 1.72 inches. That’s not a lot, but it’s still .79 of an inch above normal for the month.
For the year, Wichita has recorded 32.92 inches of rain, more than 13 inches above normal for the year-to-date, and more than 2 inches above the total average rainfall for the entire year.
I’m not about to predict that Wichita’s poised to become the Venice of the Plains, where commuters need gondolas to get to work. Anyone who has lived here for long knows that the skies can shut off at any time and stay that way for several weeks at a time.