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Saturday and Sunday were a dream. Highs in the low 70's, lows in the 50's, very low humidity. Beautiful blue skies and a crisp feel to the air. Thought I had died and gone to heaven! Turned off the AC and opened the windows. Today temps still in the mid 70's but the humidity is way up, the sky is overcast, I can hear thunder so a storm is on the way. Instead of fresh and crisp the air is heavy and muggy. Come back fall!

This might be a dream, Elizabeth. Sunday's high was 77°f, yesterday's 82°! Overnight, the thermometer has stayed above 50°! This, after Friday's freeze when the big veggie garden was covered in ice. Only the lightest of frost, miles away in the dahlia garden but they have never come back well from the frost that did so much damage in mid-September.

Good Heavens! Beautiful blue skies during the days, clear star-studded sky with a BIG moon, at night. With any luck, I should be able to see the lunar eclipse early tomorrow morning.

The furnace hasn't run for days.

Summer made a come back! Only the long daytime shadows would make anyone think that it is fall.

Steve

Its been rain and sometimes thunder in the afternoons for most of the week. Muggy and Kona weather the rest of the time. It has also been hazy because of the vog. Come back tradewinds. I don't actually get fall but the rainy season has begun.

Does this mean ..

. Hawaii missed the lunar eclipse?

The sky is nicely dark here but a little cloudy on the western horizon.

Steve

The lunar eclipse climaxed around 1 a.m., so I did not look. But it is still hazy and cloudy. The best place to look at celestial events is at the Mauna Kea observatory on the big island. It is isolated so there are no competing lights and high enough to get above the clouds. It even snows for a few months of the year. The blood moon will be back again in April 2015

There is always music and scenery for this time of year.