Weather It Is (Would You Shed Your Coat?)

Good Evening:

My wife woke up the other morning tired.  This seemed a little strange, considering she had a good night sleep (time wise). Why was she tired?  At about 10:30 in the evening she started dreaming that she was in a parking garage, and went off to find her car (leaving her mother -- briefly she thought).  Seven plus hours later she found her car -- quite exhausted from walking back and forth and level to level (but then couldn't find her mother).

Was this dream a metaphor?  A metaphor for the poor wondering Israeli (who grew up on the beach but now lives in the mountains) who searches for summer in what seems like our never-ending winter?

Well, I have news!  The cat has shed her coat!  There is a long haired cat (name: Mitzy) that lives in our neighbourhood.  Over the years through proper diet and exercise she has lost a good deal of her weight, but one would never know during winter.  In winter, she grows a very long, thick winter coat.   But, just the other day she dropped this coat (sort of like a snake dropping his old scaly-skin) and out popped a lightweight summer coat.  She's ready for summer and my guess is that summer is ready for her (or otherwise, why would she have done this on a cloudy day?).

Actually, it's going to get hot and this time there is a good chance that the heat will last a couple of days.  Low pressure over Cyprus will drift eastward during the next day, dragging hot hair northwest from the Saudi desert.  However, instead of sweeping in really cool spring air, it will slowly merge with the low pressure usually located over the desert and eventually result in warm, but not too warm June days.

True, it will get cooler on Wednesday.  True, the heat won't be extreme, but after the cool front sweeps through late Tuesday it won't get that cool, and then the weather will slowly warm. At this point, our thoughts will turn to white beaches and white capped waves.

Hopefully, this is all we'll need to forecast this summer.

Barry Lynn