Rain (and snow) at last!

It’s been two and a half month since we had our last serious precipitation, and that one was on June 11, with snow descending all the way to town. In the meanwhile, we only had four days sprinkled with some short showers, perhaps totaling five hours or rain at the very most. In the twenty-three summers we spent in Utah, we had never seen such a long, dry summer. Yesterday, for the very first time that drought weather came to an end and we welcome the heavy showers that punctuated the night. For the first time ever, we’ve been suffering for severe allergies all summer long due to a mixture of extreme dryness, dust and pollen particles floating in the air. Later today, we’re expecting more rain and this morning snow was covering the higher elevations as a cold front had moved in… We now hope that we’ll get a few showers more often to transition into fall, our very best season in Park City.