Weather It Is (A Spitting Image)

Good Afternoon

The weather seems to be moving towards wintertime, but it is doing it gradually. Over the next week, cooler air will continue to filter in at higher levels of the atmosphere, touching off showers from time to time.

Some of these showers will be steadier and heavier, like the rain in Eilat yesterday (and near Arad).  Because the cooler air is aloft, it makes for the potential for convective rain, meaning the tall cloud-towers that stand pretty-much straight up (from a distance).

Heavy rain can lead to flooding, and this can be dangerous.  In areas where there is little vegetation, rain amounts can be as little as 5 mm and it can still flood (like in the Arava).

Size doesn't always matter.  For instance, while the Gazan's launch missile after missile (of the motor variety), one young man decided to launch his own missile at a passing car near Tekoa Motzei Shabbat.  The rock smashed the car and the driver (Shimon Ben-Hamu (23)) was killed.  Murder is murder, whether with a rock or a missile -- the intent is the same.

Barry Lynn