Mid-At Aug 2014 - Cooler than normal August?

I was listening to the weather when the meteorologist mentioned that this might be the first August in history that Maryland doesn't hit the 90s. Did I hear that right? I only looked at a few Maryland cities but the highest temp I found was 88.

How had this month been for you?

Funny thing the weather, on holiday in Northern Germany around Hamburg they rather high temps of 38 oC plus  for a while .  Berlin was a little cooler but not much for the three weeks we were there .

Meanwhile here in South Wales Uk the weather has been dismal , with lots of wet & wind apparently .


 My tomatoes in the glasshouse have not done too badly but the out door plants have only just started to flower and set .


 The cooler crops such as brassica have done fantastic .....so did the cabbage white butterflies   
Now , despite me giving all brassicas a spray of bug killer the evening before we travelled they all look like light green net curtains with zillions of cabbage white buttefly catterpillairs all over the place.


 Hee hee     I zapped the little devils all over all my sfg beds and flowed beds about an hour ago with 6 litres  Metacarb as a made up at home spray ( can't harvest anything for 96 hours but it's worth the wait) .
 If I resorted to trying to pick the little buggers off the crops I'd need 36 hours in each day and that's without lunch breaks etc. as there are that many .

My hubby was in Germany during the heat wave. It was cooler here in Maryland than there.

Isn't Berlin lovely? I lived there for 3 years (just came back in 2010).

It has been a cool August in NJ which is extremely unusual.
We finally had rain yesterday which we needed (hubby was working outside so was not happy).

Today is a beautiful sunny day with intervals of clouds which I love!

My younger son, wife and grandson live in Washington, DC and it has been extremely hot, hot, hot.

I go back to work tomorrow after having most of the summer off. I work part-time for 10 months of the year. Great gig.

We are going to DC for the coming weekend and hopefully the temps will get a bit cooler.   

I live about 20 miles north of dc, and this has been the coolest summer in years. I love it and so has my garden. I sowed my fall garden seeds, and all of them sprouted with just morning waterings. In previous years, i have had to water twice a day and hope for rain to get those August seeds to sprout.

The last day of August. We have not had a 90 degree day here in Maryland the entire month but today that changed. LOL