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State climatologist Pat Michaels admits he’s been saying for a couple of weeks that the weather situation will turn around soon. He continues to forecast more rain than .normal during the second half of the summer.
Sounding rather like a soothsayer as he spoke from his Charlottesville office early this week, Michaels predicted, “I don’t have the negative feelings. We should have a fairly strong cold front by late Tuesday afternoon or Tuesday night. There should be fairly heavy thunder storms. There will be a major change in the weather soon.”
Michaels says what most local gardeners and farmers know — that there has been a substantial crop yield reduction this year, but he says this has been a typical summer so far. By contrast, Michaels points to the summers of 1977 and 1980 which were definite drought situations. During August, 1980, it was not only dry, but hot. So hot that the National Weather Service in Washington, D.C. ’ recorded 21 days in a row when high temperatures hit 90 degrees or more.
Michaels doesn’t think it will be that hot this year. Nor does he think the state
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