A Fantastic End to Summer

Tranquil. If I were to describe the weather over the past 6 days plus the next 6, that would be the word. We have seen partly to mostly sunny skies here in State College with temperatures right around where they should be. We have to look back to September 13th to find our last day with precipitation. This past Sunday night/early Monday morning, we did see some higher winds associated with the remnants of Hurricane Ike, but we were sparred from the heavy rains unlike Texas. I clocked a gust up to 41 mph on campus. There were few power outages reported, but nothing compared to western PA and eastern OH. Other than that, it has been beautiful here. People are out and about playing sports, reading or just relaxing. Unfortunately, we are running out of time to do these activities as the days are getting shorter. The sun set today at 7:11p. The picture above is a picture I took on August 30, 2008 of the sun setting from Irvin Hall at PSU. The sun setting early is a sign that the autumnal equinox is quickly approaching. To be exact, it occurs on Monday at 11:44am EDT. I can't believe that summer has already come to an end! So, get outside and enjoy the beautiful weather with rest of daylight that we have!