A rainy day in Anchorage

This is unusual (so far this summer), but Mother Nature has been threatening for a few days now. We have been partly to mostly cloudy the past few days, after a phenomenal stretch of sunny weather, albeit a bit smokey and hazy from the fires.

It finally decided to rain. Not hard, torrential downpours, but typical Anchorage light rain to sprinkles. Had to go out a bit earlier today and it was just enough to have to run the wipers. The kind of weather you expect around the Fourth of July for a month or two. (Or like the entire last summer; the summer that never was…

We certainly can’t complain, since it has been very dry this year. Well, can complain, but only so far as I didn’t get the grass cut. It really doesn’t need it, but would have been nice. My opportunity appears to have passed on Saturday, since the forecast is calling for more of the same through the week.