It was 80 degrees here today and it is now 9:00 with a temp of 55. Tomorrow it is supposed to be quite a bit cooler with a high in the low 60's and the overnight low dipping down into the 30's. That trend is supposed to continue into Wednesday when it will warm up a little bit into the 70's thru the end of next week. I love fall weather!

We've had double the normal rainfall so far for September and this weekend it's going to be clear but cooler than normal. And the forecast for next week is clear and slightly below normal temps.

And we got more heavy rain showers today and more expected. We did manage to get the yard mowed yesterday. It's still hot and humid. We were supposed to get a cold front this coming week but they are changing the forecast.

It's still summer in central North Carolina. We will have temperatures in the upper 80s through Thursday of this week, then finally it drops off. Forecast for next week is highs in the low 70s and lows in the 50s. Ahhhhhhh.

We haven't had any measurable rain since Hurricane Dorian went through on September 6th, and there is none in the forecast for at least another week. So many trees are already dropping their leaves because they're so dry.

We are in severe drought here, no rain at all for many weeks--back in July I think. My spring, which has never gone dry in living memory, is going dry. Trees have been dropping crisped, brown leaves for weeks, and many shrubs in my yard have leaves turning brown; I've never seen that before. Except for a brief period when daytime temperatures were in the 70s and night time in the 50s (Oh, the relief!), temperatures have stayed in the mid 80s by day and high 60s by night. This is unknown territory for us. As recently as 15 years ago, we used to have beautiful falls, with frost by this time of year. Crisp fall days and chilly nights.

Oh, how I miss it all!

10 day forecast looks the same, 90's during the day and 70's at night. Some nights might dip into upper 50's

I feel for those football players in all this heat.

Snowing here. It is really coming down! UGH

Somebody wake me in April, please.

we didn't have much in monsoons this summer, but this past week it hit some areas in the state and caused flooding, damage, a number of people in danger. several tornado sightings (and some damage there too). but our temps are down to the mid - high 80s and that is great! possibly one day this coming week it'll hit 90. just a little rain where I am.

It has been dry in Maryland too. I have enjoyed the sunshine but the lack of rain has been devastating for the garden. I noticed lots of pines are succumbing to the lack of rain. The daytime temps have been in the 80's and the humidity has been comfortable. 60's at night. The forecast shows no rain for the next 10 days.

It is very firmly fall here ;-) We are sightly below averages for year-to-date rainfall but much of July and all of August and September - usually our driest months - have been well above average rainfall. September so far more than double!! And it has been quite cool as well....not even supposed to break 60F today, although nighttime temps are only slightly lower.

This morning it was pouring down rain when I went out to run a few errands. Sun is trying to break though now (midday) but still too wet and chilly to want to be outside. Normally we have crisp, cool but sunny autumns......I am not liking this one so far!

I find it interesting that the trees in places that normally get regular rainfall have such difficulty when there is a dry spell. Except for the rare storm, California doesn't get rain from about the end of June until about mid-October and the trees here don't suffer from the dryness. The exception to that is if we are in a years long drought.

I'm guessing that the trees in the west have adapted to the long, dry summers by becoming drought tolerant (deeper root systems and different water requirements among other things) while the trees in the east and the south have not because they have not needed to.

I hope the places that are dry get rain soon in order to give the trees and other plants some much needed water. It's sad to watch the plants and trees struggle due to lack of moisture.

They weren't kidding when they said it was going to cool off. Currently 61 with a mighty chilly breeze blowing. The skies are overcast, but rain is not expected. I'm freezing and am wearing long pants and a long sleeved top for the first time in months!

We are under a code orange alert.

Hot temperatures and light winds are in the forecast for Saturday, which could allow ozone levels to rise by the afternoon.

Here are some tips for air quality alert days:

* Limit driving; combine errands.

* Carpool or use public transportation.

* Put off yard work with gas-powered equipment.

* Gas up after 6 p.m.

* Limit time with your engine idling.

We usually get a small storm system the first week of October, but I guess we are having it early because we have had clouds with a little bit (a very little bit) of rain this week starting on Thursday. I should have been able to predict it because I had outside painters here on Thursday and Friday. We will be back up to the high 70's next week.

Happy and lacy I'm in the same boat. SW PA We haven't had a decent rain since July. Very unusual. We did have a storm go through tonight though. I will take any little bit the clouds give us. What else is unusual is the 80s during the day. Our average first frost is usually supposed to be in 2 weeks. I don't think it is going to happen. I have a feeling we are going to go from summer to winter with no fall this year.

It's still hot as bejesus here in KY and no rain in sight. Even with an in-ground sprinkler, watering each zone for 25 minutes, I have lost 2 mature azalea bushes from in front of my library window (front of the house - goes with the azalea at the other end), and I'm very worried about a huge 20 yr old oak leaf hydrangea in the back border (one anchors each end of this border so a huge loss if it's dying), and even my mature dogwood behind my small fishpond is looking droopy. It just makes me sick to lose this mature landscaping material. We desparately need rain.

On Friday the weather guy said we normally would get about 4" of rain in September, but that this year we have had but 0.2 inches thus far. Since we have horses rain equals grass for them to eat, no rain means buying more hay through the winter.

There was a prediction for yesterday of widely scattered showers, I was mentally doing a "rain dance" hoping to increase our odds. I guess I don't know my own strength. The rain didn't last long, maybe an hour or so, but in that time there was about an inch of rain, numerous close lightning strikes, and tremendous winds.

On the side of the house facing the storm rain was blowing around the edges of the windows, and dripping down the walls and puddling on the floor. Nearly every loose item in the barn aisle -- saddle pads, fly sheets, feed buckets was blown clear out of the barn, and the worst of it was that we had some campers who had set up their 6 man tent adjacent to the pond. They returned from their son's rugby match to find that their entire tent had blown into the pond. Inside the tent they had two folding cots, a propane cook stove, heavy backpacks of clothes, rubbermaid totes of cooking gear, sleeping bags and two of their kid's baseball bats.

Hot here in Georgia too and will continue to be in the 90's this whole coming week. We did get a brief shower last night and got 1/2 of much needed rain.

We really need rain here. Our grass crunches when you walk on it. We have put an old 4 foot satellite dish up in the woods & the deer have been drinking from it.

Weather today is nice, it is 70 and it just poured rain and is still sprinkling. The weather for several days has been very nice.

Sue in Central Indiana

Wow, Bob. That violent storm must have been something of a shock, especially the tent blowing into the pond. My goodness!

While rain was not in our forecast, we had about 15 minutes of intense rain and hail last night just before dark. This morning the sun is shining.

The group just left a little bit ago. They said despite the tent catastrophe, they had a great time and plan to come back. They managed to pull most everything out of the pond and set of the tent to dry, but found it was missing a couple of poles. Their other smaller tent was fine, so instead of the parents being in the big tent, and the 3 kids being in the smaller one, they all slept in the smaller tent.

This morning the kids searched the bottom of the pond and found the two missing tent poles and their younger sister's jacket which they hadn't realized was missing. They said they'd send photos and if they do I'll post a link to them here.

We in Northeast Mississippi have the same forecast as Alabama. I am still trying to water my big pot of zinnias but once a day doesn't seem to be enough. Driest September ever. First week in October has many days at 97.

Glenda, your Alabama teams surely walloped our Mississippi fellows yesterday! I expected Alabama to do that, but Auburn surprised me! Too hot for us in more ways than one!

Please come and claim your missing rain! We're soaked. Our creek is UP, and the 'puddle' that forms along the lot line between our house and the one to our west hasn't subsided completely in weeks. Mid-60's all day and tonight. Heat coming Mon. and Tues.

Lake Michigan is near or at record levels.

It has rained in the state, including yesterday, but in my particular neighborhood we are still running dry. We had light rain today, not nearly enough though - we have had only 2 substantial rains since mid July. Storm and rain fronts have just seemed to dissipate before getting here, or tracked either to the north or south of us. I am watering in ground plants once a week, not wanting the shrubs & perennials to go into winter stressed from drought. My weigela is looking pretty rough already though .

Had nice, 70s-80s temps last week but we are forecast to be in the 90s again tomorrow and most of the week. This has been the hottest summer I can remember in the 27 years I've lived here. Usually we are approaching freezing overnight by the last week of October, with one or two cold blustery rainstorms - I wonder if that will hold true this year.

Here it is crisp and cold and no rain right now. My sister texted and reminded me to put my snow tires on. If we travel out of our area north at all from October 1st on we are required to have snow tires on.

My sister-in-law is my flying into snow in Alberta tomorrow. Thats Winter / Fall in Canada... here we go again.

84 degrees at 11 am here in Ky, with a high today of 94. I can't remember when it rained last here in my area. It's been over a month ago, for sure. We have three more days of this misery, then high temps will be dropping into the 70's ...yay !

Haha Chisue, I'd gladly claim some missing rain from you for the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia! Bob, sorry you got strong winds with your "scattered shower" yesterday. Maybe my side of the mountain ridge will get the "scatter" today. So far today we've had only a very light mist, and about 20 seconds of heavy rain drops.

Not many happy in betweens. We need rain here Nature will balance it out. Hopefully not with a hurricane.

The Southern heat 'bulge' is flowing up and over the Wisconsin state line today and tomorrow. Then it sags back down again and we're to have...some more *rain*, and cooler. Just turned the A/C on when I got back from Monday chemo shot. (We still have our 'pond'.)

Not YET

Still HOT