Weather It Is (Assigning Blame)

Good Afternoon:

The other day at the Bet-Kenneset someone asked me if people are blaming me for the really hot weather.  What could I say?  He was the first.

Yet, it wasn't that long ago that the main computer screen in our home showed a beautiful winter scene of a snowy house sitting on a snowy field on a snowy and cold winter day.

"That's enough," the wife said.  "I want summer."  Away went the snow to be replaced by something less interesting (at least to me).

Of course, you all the story: we've had some of the hottest weather of the summer over the last few weeks. In fact, it's been periodically unpleasant (and even worse for those who didn't pay heed to the heat warnings).

To be honest with you, I'm too much of a man to make my wife take the fall for this, but the truth must be told.

True, today is really nice, and the next couple of days will be really nice, but this is only because of extraordinary efforts I made to undue the damage done to the fabric our weather.

However, all I can do is really "band-aid" things.  Towards the end of the week and until about mid-week next week the low pressure area to our east will build north and westward bringing us some uncomfortably hot and potentially dangerously hot weather again. Temperatures will be going up about 10 C by the time we reach peak hot temperatures Monday and Tuesday of next week.

By the way: it used to be that July's were hotter than August's in our part of the world.  However, with the addition of "green-house" gases,  the annual temperature peak (I read) has been shifting towards August.  This makes sense as greenhouse gases absorb solar energy, allowing the atmosphere to build up "excess" heat as the summer progresses.

Barry Lynn