photo courtesy me and my iPhone
Fall arrives in San Antonio.
After one of the hottest Summers on record here in San Antonio (59 days of 100 degrees or more weather - with 5 of them hitting 104 degrees) and a drought that has looked like it will never end, I awoke to this as the scene in my backyard this morning. It's not pouring and it's certainly not the kind of Fall I grew up with back in Philadelphia, but today is most certainly not Summer. Today is the first day of Fall and the weather wanted to be sure we knew it here in San Antonio.
My good friends at KSAT News warned me it was coming and I knew it would eventually, but to wake up to 69 degrees, light drizzle, and an expected high of 79 degrees just proved it to me. While some of you from parts further north might laugh at 79 degrees signaling the end of Summer, it certainly does here in San Antonio. Fall has arrived and although I won't get the beautiful leaves of Pennsylvania and the Northeast, if you look close I do have tiny leaves all over my deck. I've never been quite sure, but they seem like they might be seed pods. I'm not very good at being an arborist, so I'll just have to accept that I'm not sure of much, except they stick to your feet and get all over the house (which drives my wife nuts).
Of course, here in San Antonio, we still have plenty of great weather ahead of us. When I first moved here, I was wearing shorts well into November. Looks like this week will be some rain, but as anyone who lives here can tell you...we could use every drop we can find.
If you're looking for quick and easy weather maps, temperatures, radar, aquifer levels (very important to us in San Antonio), and the ever-amusing "Haircast" - look no further than KSAT News' JustWeather.com.
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