Article: Cool summer disappoints tourists, delays crops

Towels draped over their heads, Lisa Hendrix and Jennifer Webster lounged on a sparsely populated Lake Michigan beach Friday as raindrops trickled from a gloomy sky.

It's been that kind of a summer in northern Michigan, and across much of the Midwest and East Coast.

"We're going to a wedding tomorrow and were hoping to get a little suntan," Webster said. "No luck."

Temperatures have been well below normal. Sunshine often has been in short supply and rain has fallen at inopportune times. It's resulted in crops ripening slowly and some tourist havens _ already dealing with a sour economy _ taking an extra hit.

"There's more griping about the weather than we've seen in recent memory," said Norris ...

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