Weather It Is (Dramatics)

Wow, what a dramatic week!  It started off with everyone deciding to head out of Egypt on a cold and damp morning -- and not everyone wanted to get out of their warm beds to do so, but they did it anyway.  But, the weather cleared and we had four days of increasingly warm and beautiful weather.  Then, as we neared the promised land, the atmosphere split and it turned cold and rainy again as cold air rushed in from the far north (Siberia, to be more exact); in fact, it was so cold that it even snowed a bit.  Fortunately, we'd all arrived -- and settled in our promised land -- and the periods of heavy rain and hail didn't bother us a bit -- except one.

"What kind of Pesach was that?  Where is spring?  The sun? How could you do this to me?"

I guess she was asking: what is the point of being married to a "weatherman" (I prefer the term: meteorologist) if I can't even plan correctly our one week of weather for our vacation?

Now, in my opinion, there was weather for everyone. There was weather for those who like a bit of excitement, or even just a bit more winter.  There was weather for those who listen for the first song of spring. In fact, the weather during Chol H'Moed was perfect and that was -- in my opinion what was important.  I guess this just shows that what the husband thinks is important is not necessarily in tune with what the wife thinks.

With that, my apologies for those who want a quick return to spring.  While it will warm up a bit, a weak storm will approach on Thursday and bring a chance for light rain.  True, it will warm up from there, but we still  see a 10% chance of another more serious rain early next week (i.e., a bit of winter).

Looking farther out brings an 80% chance that the weather will turn pleasantly warm by the end of the month.  Of course, that's climatology -- or what we expect -- and once in a while husbands do what is expected of them.

Barry Lynn