It feels like it's been raining forever

It's been raining the whole time I've been home. It's putting a damper on my trashy fireworks show I have pending for tonight.

Its sunny outside my house

Last night, I put a 10 lb pork butt on the smoker to cook through the night to be ready for this afternoon.

When I lit the fire in between showers… it was something like 95% relative humidity from all the rain…. and the smoke couldn’t even rise because of all the moisture in the air. It just kind of hung there like fog.

But worse….. When I woke up this morning and ran out to smell the smell of glory and of victory of an almost done pork butt………..I found a half cooked chunk of wasted time and effort instead. A punch in the balls. You see…the vents have to be almost closed on my smoker to cook low and slow all night, so all the moisture in the air choked my fire out.

Looks like bbq-Sauce sandwiches for us today instead!!!!

frick all this rain.

What kind of smoker do you use?

Sunny here in Charleston but it was raining earlier.

nice day at the beach, happy 4th to everyone

I'm old enough to remember strange weather in the sixties and again in the late eighties. But what we have seen this year is the strangest of all. I can never, in my six plus decades, remember anything like this.

We track it here on the farm. My son-in-law has a weather station over at their house just a few acres away. We're eight inches over normal for this time of year right now and we probably got another half inch, or more, today.

I'm not complaining, because we had been in a drought for most of the past fifteen years and our wells needed rejuicing ... but this has been amazing. Bumper peach crops, I can tell you that. Corn is looking great. We've already had two more hay cuttings than normal this year, enough that we've been able to send a lot to Texas.

Think about it. 4th of July Peach Festival in Gilbert has averaged above 100 degrees since the turn of the millennium. Today it never got above 84.

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Lot of locals on the coast were saying the last time they remembered a long winter into spring w/ heavy rains we got Hugo.

Weather was perfect out on the water yesterday, though. Hope everyone enjoyed it.

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And I agree. I was gonna type it but decided not to jinx us. But yeah, '89 we were living on the Isle of Palms and it was very much like this. We also got heavy snow that same year, which made it all the more strange.