"And that, ladies and gentlemen, concludes the pleasant part of the year in Bakersfield. Thanks for coming. Buh-bye."
The temperature has crept into the 90's and is supposed to cross into triple digits early next week. The air has already turned foul. It's Summertime in Bako.
Actually, we really lucked out this year. We got about 8 weeks of really nice, Spring-like weather. Last year the window between the cold, clammy Winter and the blast furnace Summer was only about 3 or 4 weeks, which the natives tell me is about average.
Actually, the nice weather seems to have thrown the locals for a loop. When the temperature stuck around in the 70's into May, they seemed pleasantly surprised. When we received unheard of rain in May they became a little confused. And once we reached Memorial Day and the weather was still nice, they kind of freaked out. Bakersfield is supposed to be a pizza oven by then.
We may yet pay for the extended mild weather. There's talk of this being a hotter than normal summer. The thought of it is enough to make me reach for a razor blade.
It's been a wacky year of weather and it's only just half over. Record rainfall here in Bako and record snow and floods across much of the country. Biblical twisters down south and now a predicted killer hurricane season. You'd almost think the climate was changing or something.
But here, that's just crazy talk.
