Weather It Is (Spring has Arrived and so have Missiles)

Good afternoon:

It's quite warm outside and it is going to stay warm for a few days.

Low pressure dipping down over Central Europe is drawing warm air from the continent of Africa.  The warm flow of air will continue into early next week, when the low pressure approaches -- weakens -- and then slides into our area.

As the area of low pressure peters-out, the chance of rain will diminish, but there is the chance of rain nevertheless. Hopefully, it won't be a muddy rain like our last one.

Of course, we should be happy that only mud falls from the sky.  Late last night one or two missiles fell on Eilat.  Of course, there's nothing we can do but put up the umbrella, as we left the Sinai to the Egyptians many years ago.   And, as our Defense Minister says: "Terrorism -- like the weather -- isn't going away anytime soon."  I certainly feel a lot safer, knowing this.

The mayor of Eilat says that life will go on as normal, and he encourages visitors (including ourselves).  Fortunately, on this side of town we only worry about large hail storms in the form of rocks. But, even the famous NY Times columnist Thomas Friedman thinks of the throwing of large hail stones as a form of "non-violent" protest.  So, we too have nothing to worry about either, which is too bad since the weather really gives us no cause for concern!

Barry Lynn