It may not be midnight sun, but these final days of June, the skies begin to brighten just after four a.m. and if you look north, you’ll see dusk departing close to ten p.m.

Unfortunately, the long days haven’t been nearly as long as we’d like…we’ve had almost daily rain, high humidity and temperatures on a roller-coaster ride between 50 and 85F.   The bright side is the beauty offered by the ocassional rumbling of Mother Nature.  Meteorologist Chris Bouchard at the Fairbanks Museum in St. Johnsbury was out late Thursday night “practicing” one of his crafts…photographing the thunderstorms that rolled in ’round midnight.

The ten-day forecast calls for scattered thunderstorms daily, with high temperatures only in the low 70’s.  Gotta go, the radar shows a two or three hour window…to mow the lawn.

–SN