Weather It Is (Stormy if not Snowy Weather)

Good Morning:

This morning I woke my wife up with "get up! It's a beautiful day!"  Of course, it was not a "traditional" beautiful day, but a wintery and grey day -- a portend?  The good news is that after some grumbling she was incredibly efficient, cleaning here and there, getting a head start of the Shabbat cooking, and even making me some vegetarian "ham"-burgers.  These are made from something that actually looks like ground beef you buy from the butcher, but there was no butchering done at all -- just some creative manipulation of what one might call plant material.

Moving onto the weather, we've had the good fortune to move from an extended period of dry weather to at least a period of wet weather.  Another storm will move in from the west on Monday, and it should be followed by our third storm within a week's time on Wednesday/Thursday.

The global forecasts have been indicating for some time that there will be an extended cold period from the 18th (Monday) through Thursday (the 21st)  next week, with the greatest likelihood of cold weather to arrive Wednesday and Thursday.  More recent forecasts indicate a greater possibility of snow in the higher elevations of the central and northern mountains.   The cold air would arrive from the direction of Siberia as another storm moves southeastward on Wednesday.

Motzei Shabbat will give us a better indication of what type of weather will be in the air next week.

Shabbat Shalom,

Barry Lynn