The Summer of Stormy Weather in the Northeast

The summer of 2021 in the mid-Atlantic region will go down as being one of the stormiest and rainiest summers in decades. From the start of the season until now we’ve been hit with a minimum of 2 severe thunderstorms every week. I’m talking about a lot of wind, hail, heavy rain, thunder, lightning strikes, and at times tornadoes touching down nearby.

Every week we’ve had to spend time outside cleaning up our property from down tree limbs, shingles that blew off our roof, debris in our swimming pool, a collapsed garden shed roof, 2 broken windows, etc. By August 1st, we were certainly getting tired of it. TIRED OF IT.

Due to all of the stormy weather it considerably shortened our pool season. We typically can get in our pool 4-5 times a week from the second week in June through Labor Day. Not this year. There were times that we couldn’t get in for a week or so…due to the weather. Our pool has a solar heater, so if it’s cloudy, cool or rainy…forget about it.

Summer will always be my favorite season out of the year but this past summer was ridiculous. Totally ridiculous! Oh…don’t even utter the words Global Warming around me because that had nothing to do with this weather pattern. Our area gets a summer season like this every 10-15 years and has done so for over 150+ years.

Sorry for the areas in the country that experienced drought this past year and if I could send you all of the rain we have gotten, I certainly would. I wouldn’t mind a good 7-10 days of HOT, HUMID and SUNSHINE weather to finish out our summer season. I’m really going to hate closing up our pool until next year. Ugh. Blah.