The Pacific Northwest made the national news today. I was listening to the radio, network news, and one of the major stories, right after a piece describing the heat wave in other parts of the nation, was a story that involved the lousy year we are having in western Washington.

If you live on the west side of the mountains, nobody has to tell you, or remind you, of the cold year we are having. In the course of doing home inspections, many a week, I have only taken my sweatshirt off two or three times. And, unusual, my wife and I have not run a fan to cool the house even ONE DAY this year. No need to, everyone is sleeping with blankets on.

We residents know this, in our heart of hearts, but the low temperatures were confirmed by KOMO news in Seattle. They define pleasant summer temperatures, not unreasonable for this region, as any days, or should I say hours, where the temperature was 80 degrees F or higher.

If you live here, this is no big shocker:  This year, if you added together all "minutes" where the temperature was a minimum of 80 degrees F, then you have a total of 78 minutes of summer.

          

 

If you are mathematically challenged, then you need to know that 78 minutes is one hour and 18 minutes. Up here in Bellingham, the days are getting shorter and, the past few days, we are seeing more rain. So that 78 minutes might be just as good as it gets, and it was not that good.

If you click on the TV below, you will see a live performance of one of the greatest, and most popular ever, of the warm weather songs. This Mungo Jerry goodtime tune made us all happy back in 1970, when the weather knew how to cooperate.

        

        

Check out "This Day In History" -- music and vintage television from the 1950's through the 1980's.  I enjoy writing these articles because they take me back to my days in radio broadcasting. Click on Elvis' gold record, below, to revisit those golden hits of yesteryear.

           

 
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15 Comments on 78 Minute Summer -- Poof And It Was Gone!

JUL
21
2011
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How well I remember that song. It does have a lovely up-beat tempo now doesn't it?
7:50pm • #1
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We are having the same wheather here on Vancouver Island. Great video of Ed Sullivan and his "really big shew".
8:48pm • #2
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Steve, People over here are complaining because we have not made it to 100 yet. It actually has been fairly pleasant but muggy by our standards.
9:01pm • #3
JUL
22
2011

 

Well Steve, I missed that 78 minutes to get my tan. But I still have a chance to rust... Hey, color is color!

 

This reminds me of a saying I heard when I first moved to the Northwest....

"You can tell what time of the season it is here by the temperature of the rain"....I'm confused, what season are we in again?

Ya got to love those boots and sideburns, Ya Just don't see that much these days. Nice video.
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Steven,

The beard on this guy cracked me up! Stay cool this weekend!
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It is a summer we will all remember I think, not so favorably so.
9:22am • #6
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This song was preceded and superseded by "Hot Time, Summer In The City," Lovin' Spoonful.

Who you kidding?
9:48am • #7
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Jay,

I did not say it was the best summer song, but certainly one of the best. I never really got into the Sly tune at all but have a post coming up on Summer in the City. A good argument could be made, delinquent like you, that the best summer song ever was by by Alice Cooper -- School's Out For The Summer.
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I love that shared Mungo Jerry :) Also, love hearing about other regrions of the US. Sometimes we get too caught up in our own little microcosms! Enjoy your weather and your weekend. ~ Jennifer the IHI Home Inspections Girl
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Bonnie,

That was a very distinctive good time summer song.
11:30am • #10
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Great song. You may not be surprised that the other side of the continent is experiencing non-summer as well. On the Avalon peninsula of Newfoundland the norms for the season are 65 to 75. This year it's in the low 50s and peoples heating systems have kicked in over night.
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Nope.  Lovin' Spoonful.
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Howdy and evening to you Steve

Steve, I remember the song In the Summertime. The folks here started crying when the temp. got into the med 80's. They sure could not handle the temps. which I grew up with back in Missouri.

Have a good one
Dale in New Hampshire
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Good tune, quirky and fun. As for the heat, you can have some of ours. It is over 80 at near 10 o clock.
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Jay,

I catch that, I had thought about writing on Hot Fun In The Summertime and thought that was where you are going. I got Summer in the City coming up in a couple days. That was, as you know, a Mel Torme standard.
10:46pm • #15

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