Weather It Is (So It Ends)

Good Morning:

It is very hard to read about the shooting death murder of the Naama and Eitan Henkin Thursday evening.  It could have been worse as four of the couples children were in the car. There was also an attempted murder with a large rock that broke the windshield of a family traveling nearby. Both families were on their way home.

Unfortunately, it is what we expect from our "neighbors" (the Palestinians), even if we hope for better.

While it is true that "Sticks and stones can break my bones, words can never hurt me," the words of the Palestinian leadership and its clergy encourage not wars of words, but of deadly weapons (whether they be a gun or a rock).  Just as one chooses to pick up a weapon, one might choose the path of peaceful relations and words instead -- but they don't (and this includes Mr. Abbas, their apparent president for life).

Our string of beautiful weather will also come to an end on Sunday, and Monday will start a turn towards colder fall like weather.  We see a very strong signal in the atmosphere at both 850 and 700 mb, where temperatures will fall off by more than 10 degrees Celsius.  The signal at 500 mb is weaker, and we'll have to wait this out in order to see just how much rain will fall later on Tuesday (Isra-Hag) into Wednesday.

However, it looks like there will be periods of rain from at least Beer-Sheva northward to the Hermon, including the central mountains of Jerusalem.  Winds will also be gusty.

The inclement weather should be followed by a warm-up, but not the kind of warm-up that reminds you of late summer, but of fall.

Modim L' Simcha,

Barry Lynn