The featured chart is a bit complex to understand, but tells a great story of the interplay between temperature and precipitation departures with time. The line connects fourteen day trailing departures evaluated every seven days. Since temperature and precipitation are related, they tend to form circular cycles that trace arcs with time. The most recent point on the chart shows up at a very wet departure and slightly below average temperature departure. In fact, all but three points are shown to the cool side of average. So our year has generally gone from cool and dry to cool and wet! Thankfully the heat in early June appears, which helped warm soils and got the crop growing robustly.

Voting:
Good = 13
Bad = 5
Abstain = 5