I'v though about how to description the weather, I suppose odd is as good as any. Normal sure doesn't apply, it hasn't been normal here in twenty years, probably more. It also hasn't switched to something else consistent enough to be thought of as a new normal. It just keeps getting more and more freakish. We already went through snow disappearing from winters, that started gradually thirty years ago.
Some new things from past few years that amaze me is how much it can rain in a period of an hour or two, five, six inches or even more and it can do it in one spot and ten miles away not a drop. And how fast it heats up and dries up when it's done. We've had thirty inches in June and July and right now dry as a bone. The so far brief but spooky -25 C snaps in winter are new too.
Very little of any industrialized crops are going to be harvested in Indiana this year. The big irrigation systems installed over last 10 - 20 years didn't help a bit cause all the big flat fields were swamps at planting time. Yep, pretty odd.
