Few of us live
near each other so we rely on social media and the
phone for our daily connections but once a year, we
gather at a lake to reconnect, tell stories, laugh until we weep and cry until we laugh.
Perhaps all the temperature readings I remember were solely TV - station -
gathered readings not part of the official record, but I thought those were using input from the official weather stations just as they are now (just
gathered by
phone or dial - up internet instead of modern
near - real - time monitoring).