Taste of Spring Perhaps
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Hey, look at the rainbow! I took this at 3:30 pm Wednesday looking northeast. A sure sign of spring for sure. Not a bad photo considering taken from my cell phone with my arm out the window (I was stopped, don't worry).
NOWCAST - Slowly (big on slowly) clearing skies on Friday lead the way for a dry and mild weekend and President's Day as well. So possible frost at night and some low clouds and fog here nd there decreasing as the weekend wears on with slight offshore flow. Highs getting to 60 degrees or better over the weekend. Lows in the 30's.
OUTCAST - Enjoy the next few days as we gradually clear and warm up a bit. The crystal ball for next week shows clouds and rain coming back with perhaps a few days of heavy rain and more mountain snow at pass levels and above. I think March will roar in like a lion and be cool and somewhat wet. Look for some violent weather in the mid section of the country with more severe weather and tornadoes. Could be an active month.
I wonder what else will begin to disappear as things change around us? With cell phones, phone booths are few and far between. With GPS units so popular and now becoming essential, will paper road maps and the Rand McNally Road Atlas become a thing of the past? And will neckties become an accessory of the past succumbing to the climate change as well? Open collar shirts allowing one to breathe as the air temperature goes up?
Of course we know that global climate change doesn't necessarily mean warmer for everyone. But more extreme weather according to experts. All of the record cold this winter round the world is being blamed on La Nina and the extremes caused by global warming. How can all this be true? If it snowed in the Middle East where it has not for over 50 years, why did it 50 years ago? What about all the Cascade snows this winter. Global climate change bring more rain fall to mountains and less snow. What's up with that? Ah, food for thought isn't it? Wait 5 or 10 years and we will have the answer.
Happy Valentine's Day to you! I hope you saw red today in the form of flowers, sweet kisses and hugs, or perhaps a big red heart box full of chocolates!
-- posted by Pat Timm @ 12:29 PM,
