Weather It Is (Winds of War)

Good Evening:

Today was a bit of respite (at least) weather wise.  The previous days had seen very strong winds accompanied by missile-storms. The missile-storms developed over Gaza and swept eastward on the strong winds, blanketing much of the country in a hail of shrapnel and other asundery missile parts.

It was interesting that our Prime Minister each day used the word "intensifying" -- to indicate our supposed response to this recent (but actually not so recent) threat.  One wonders when our own storm will come, or if we will simply turn it out to sea.

In other weather news, there will be a strange (summertime) confluence of events early next week.  Temperatures all drop sharply at all levels of the atmosphere, indicating the approach of a trough of low pressure from the northwest. There are some indications that this low pressure area will be accompanied by patches of moisture at both 850 and 700 mb, which may be enough to kick off some summer-time showers.

Based on Jodi Rudoren's  New York Time's article today
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/16/world/middleeast/after-brief-lull-in-gaza-crisis-airstrikes-resume.html?

Israel has the strong advantage in this war -- because Israel has an lopsided advantage in armaments. Mr. Rudoren's article seems to imply that this is somehow unfair. However Hamas has a lopsided "advantage" in the desire to kill us, and it not unfair that we don't easily oblige them.

Barry Lynn