Weather It Is (Where did Spring go?)

It's Wednesday afternoon and it doesn't feel like Spring anymore.  What happened?  Spring's old nemesis, Winter, is making a comeback.  You might call it a bit of luck, since it's not necessarily cold and stormy elsewhere.

Of course, we were quite "lucky" during the last "round" of fighting.  No-one on our side was killed, and this was a distinct possibility since the Iron-Dome system shot down about 75% of all the missiles launched from Gaza.  Fortunately, we also have a defense minister, Ehud Barak, who's an optimist, and thinks that relative "calm" is really just fine, so long as it's not me who gets hit on the head by the next one.

Did I say cold, well: I meant it.  The cold is courtesy of a trough digging southward,  It really is going to get cold, but the atmosphere doesn't seem (just yet) to be as cold as it could be, meaning that this weather system is weighted towards the bottom, with most of the cold air concentrated closer to the surface.  It would actually be nice to see some snow from this system, late Friday afternoon and night, but it's too early to really say we should look out for it.

Following this system, the weather will be in a relative calm, but not the kind of relative calm that makes one run for cover at the sound of a siren.

Barry Lynn