Weather It Is (Is it Raining?)

Good Morning:

To those living on the left or western side of the country (and even the deep South (Eilat)) it has been raining.  In fact, there have been flooding rains and the streets of Eilat were under a foot or two of water.

Yet, on the right or eastern side of the country the rain has been more sparse.  Storms that move in promisingly from the west dissipate as they reach Jerusalem.  Our forecasts have and continue to show that these rain storms should persist into the mountains of Jerusalem.

I can only think that there is a  conflict of interest here. On the one hand, we have winter -- as represented by an early season storm -- and on the other hand we have fall (or summer) -- represented by the wind patterns of the desert.  They're duelling and on our side of the country the summer drying winds are winning out.

The only thing we can really forecast with certainty is that our winter rain storm will be mixed with missiles at times. Fortunately, shelters will be built.  Unfortunately, we'll need to forecast missiles in the summer-time even when the weather is in general good (that's because missile attacks are not really acts of weather as our government ministers belief, but acts of man -- and are actually subject to other acts of man to stop them (if only we had the will-power)).

Barry Lynn