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Today is the first official day of summer, although it may have felt like it for a few weeks now. But this is the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year and the Farmers Almanac has all kinds of info on the weather and more.
Lee Maddox: Long Awaited Day: Welcome and hello again everyone for Tennessee Home and Farm Radio. I’m Lee Maddox
Pete Geiger: But we talked last August how oppressive it was gonna be big thunderstorms and showers at this point of the year. That’s exactly what’s happening.
Lee Maddox: Today is the first official day of summer, although it may have felt like it for a few weeks now, but this is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year and just like the weather we’re seeing now hot oppressive and showery. It’s just what the Farmers Almanac predicted for us back last August. Editor Pete Geiger.
Pete Geiger: So as we enter summer, with the summer solstice, you know we get the longest day or at least daylight. And now we started looking to see what summer is going to be and we’re saying that summer sizzle return is going to be a hot, oppressive thundery kind of summer.
Lee Maddox: Now the weather is just one of many attributes to the Farmers Almanac. There’s tons of detailed information about the weather and folklore around weather and other tidbits that you may have heard long ago but have maybe forgotten
Pete Geiger: Yeah, I think I think your almanac looks at every every aspect of life, whether it’s astronomy or whether it’s gardening or whether it’s the weather or even what the history you know, all the folklore folklore, about weather folklore about the solstice that you can find in the Almanac and just as much as in the Almanac is online too. And that’s what I think is exciting for people too, because we have a lot of videos and a lot of articles. And whether you got mosquitoes, you got bugs, you got ticks, whatever, whatever you got, we have a cure, or at least we have a way to deal with it.
Lee Maddox: And Pete Geiger says besides getting your own copy of the Farmers Almanac book each year, you can simply go online to farmersalmanac.com and find all kinds of practical, useful information
Pete Geiger: How to be safe and how to be how to be happy in life and it’s not political it’s strictly a book of guidance. I guess if you will to make your life better no matter what the season is and then we got summer to contend with it which means even thunderstorms and all the things that go with that and then you know before you know you and I’ll be talking about fall and winter
Lee Maddox: And for Tennessee Home and Farm Radio, I’m Lee Maddox
