Strange Weather

When you watch the television news, all they talk about on the weather reports is the 'heat dome' that is over the biggest share of the country.  Temperatures are triple digits almost everywhere except for the Northwest coastal areas and eastern Washington.  Yesterday I don't think it got to be much more than 70  degrees and we even had a brief rain shower.  Today it might have gotten into the low eighties, but that's about all.  We've had a series of low clouds scooting over all day --

Just about the time I thought the sun was going to finally come out, another series of clouds would come over --

I went outside to sit and read for a while, but it got so windy, I got chilled and had to come inside.  You can see how much the trees are blowing --



It seems a bit strange to be having such cool weather when the rest of the country is sweltering, but I certainly am NOT complaining.  We are a bit concerned, however, that the wheat is still not ready to harvest.  It really does need some hot, dry days at this point to ripen it.  And it doesn't need wind that might shatter the ripe heads!