Weather It Is (Boy, it's hot!)

Good Afternoon:

Having just taken a very quick stroll out to the sidewalk, I can certainly attest that it feels hot.  I can imagine that there is a large power consumption as folks use both their ovens and air conditioners prior to the start of Rosh HaShanah.  The hot weather will persist through the holiday, as hot air flows our way around low pressure situated to our east.

However, by the stroke of Midnight at the end of the holiday, even the hot weather will wilt and a cool front should push in from the west.  As time goes on, high pressure may even set-up to our north, which will lead to an even more refreshing cooling, just in time to fast for Yom-Kippur.

I won't be publishing any blogs that suggest that there seems to be a general reaction among Muslims: when someone criticizes "them" for having violent tendencies, they get all hot under the collar (i.e, take offense), and then violently riot.  Living here in the Mid-East has done quite a lot to dissuade me from my liberal and all-accepting tendencies I had while growing up.  The irony is that there are quite a few Muslim leaders who quite frequently refer to the Jews as the "Sons of Pigs and Dogs," but we don't let their wind ruffle our hair.  I guess that with all their platitudes about how they're the "ones," they don't really believe it -- otherwise, why take offense from someone who doesn't rate the effort.

Hopefully, with the advent of fall, tempers will cool a bit.

L'Shanah Tova!

Barry Lynn