But, still, this pattern of a couple dry, warmer than normal days followed by a string of showery, cooler than normal days continues to plague us during the critical bloom period. On the positive side, it looks like we'll have an extended bloom period this year, pushing harvest into mid-October. This is a positive, from my point of view; because I love the wine we make when we aren't harvesting during a September heat spike, especially given that the forecasters have been calling 2012 an analog to 2009 - one of the hottest, heat-spiked years in recent memory. On the down side, we could be in for an abnormally low yield.
The weather forecast shows cool, showery weather through Tuesday; then a couple clear, warm days; followed by a week of cool, showery weather. Depressing, but, then again, the forecasters have been wrong most of the season so far.
