Weather It Is (When Will It End?)

Good Afternoon:

In a rather anguished voice my wife says: "When will it end?"  She meant, of course, the chilly weather that has driven her back to winter.

You see, my wife likes summer and I like winter, and this has always created a conflict in our marriage.  After all, how can married life be a happy life when one rejoices while the other does not?

Well, in the interest of wives everywhere, I can say that we've reached bottom.  By reaching bottom, I mean that there is only where to go but up.  The reason for the up will be high pressure building out of Africa, which will bring increasingly warm temperatures, without (almost -- no husband is perfect) interruption until Shabbat.  And while next Sunday may be a slight cooling, it should actually become quite hot by mid next week as low pressure expands northwestward from the desert region of Saudia Arabia.

As promised, we've reached bottom and temperatures will be heading to more springlike, and eventually summer like (60% chance) levels.  Moreover, we see warming at the upper levels of the atmosphere as well, indicating the approach of the Indian Monsoon's circulation pattern, which means that warm upper air atmospheric temperatures will limit cloud formation, as well as any rain.

So, I can safely say that the weather will bring a smile to my wife's face.

It interesting that there is a simple explanation for the weather dichotomy between husband and wife: women are actually from the planet Venus and men are from the planet Mars. The former is quite hot, weather wise (actually, it is believed that all the water on Venus has boiled away), while there is ice on Mars. It is for this reason that women need understanding -- the understanding that having gotten what they wish for they are in actuality, too hot.  On the other hand, men lay it plainly and rationally on the line: if Venus is too hot, come to Mars where you can always put on a jacket and boots (gloves too) to stay warm. In other words, women should be more like men and everything will work out fine, in more ways than one.

Barry Lynn