{"id":573898988,"date":"2026-05-20T20:09:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T00:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573898988"},"modified":"2026-05-23T18:47:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T22:47:52","slug":"now-officially-on-summertime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2026\/05\/20\/now-officially-on-summertime\/","title":{"rendered":"Now officially on summertime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been casually watching this for many years now, and I have noted, in that time, several days where I&#8217;ve experienced a 30 degree swing in temperatures. I know there are plenty of places where that happens a lot more regularly. It&#8217;s rare enough in the places where I&#8217;ve lived, I guess, to be remarkable when you see the forecasts. I am remarking on it now. On the days it has happened and anyone is within earshot I have bored them with my mastery of basic arithmetic. That&#8217;s a remark. It&#8217;s remarkable. <\/p>\n<p>One of the things that I&#8217;ve noticed is that a 30-degree temperature swing seems to be about the extent of it. At least around here. (Here meaning wherever I was at the time.) <\/p>\n<p>Today, the forecast called for a 40-degree swing. The high was forecast at 96 and the low was 56. <\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;ve ruined the weather, or we&#8217;ve ruined forecasting. Or both. Either way, this is bad.   <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannerrowan3.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We had our year-end faculty meeting today, a four-hour chat in a classroom. There was an agenda. We ended up having to rush through parts of it. I made three comments, two of them substantive, and that was more than enough. (I reminded people of a deadline that is now set for April 2027, and I suggested we see about getting some AEDs installed in the building. I am in the minutes as having participated in the meeting.) Much ground was covered, applause and good cheer was shared. Lunch was university-catered chicken-salad sliders.<\/p>\n<p>And sometime soon after we got home the new weather system blew in. You could almost see it bearing down on us, coming out of the southwest. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may26\/may27.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We got a bit of rain &#8212; good, we needed it, and probably some more, we&#8217;re already in a severe drought &#8212; even as most of the system went to the north. Looked impressive. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may26\/may28.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Cooled thinks right off. After three days of 90+ temperatures we&#8217;ll be in the 50s through the weekend. <\/p>\n<p>I might have mentioned this, but one of my university colleagues is an atmospheric scientist and she&#8217;s been doing some work in this area. Apparently the inconsistent spring is a signal of climate change problems. We broke the weather. Or the climate. Or the forecasting. Perhaps all three. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannerwildatlanticway.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still living in the happy memories of our wonderful Irish vacation. So, I&#8217;m sharing extra videos that we didn&#8217;t get to at the time. It was a great vacation. I have a lot of footage. This will go on for some time. Enjoy it with me, won&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player.html?video=xaazgug\"style=\"width:100%; height:100%; position:absolute; left:0px; top:0px; overflow:hidden; border:none;\"allowfullscreentitle=\"Dailymotion Video Player\"allow=\"web-share\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>This is the last week of this feature. (For now, anyway.) We are spending it looking at the majesty of <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2026\/03\/21\/malin-head\/\">Malin Head<\/a>, the northernmost part of Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been casually watching this for many years now, and I have noted, in that time, several days where I&#8217;ve experienced a 30 degree swing in temperatures. I know there are plenty of places where that happens a lot more regularly. 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