Since when was January ‘tornado season’? The weather keeps seeming to get weirder and weirder. While all the big news was about the series of ones back out towards the midwest, there was one up here in the Pacific Northwest too. Apparently not far from my grandmother’s house actually.
I swear… The weather gets weirder and weirder every year…
You’d figure that after having spent twenty-five years of my life in Oregon I’d know the difference between:
Rain Mist
Misting
Light Sprinkles
Sprinkles
Light Rain
Light Showers
Heavy Sprinkles
Showers
Heavy Showers
Rain
Heavy Rain
Torrential Downpour
But really, where the frick is the dividing line between them?
Or the difference between:
Scattered Clouds
Slightly Cloudy
Cloudy
Mostly Cloudy
Overcast
Heavy Clouds
Is there actually set guidelines to differentiate between these things? Is it just dependent on the weather forecasters moods? Is meteorology actually a science at all? I have this long-standing suspicion that the only difference between a meteorologist and a fortune-teller is that meteorologists get green screens and radar domes to play with.
Blegh.
(Originally posted at A Home Away from Hythia)
It is frickin’ cold out. Not that I should be complaining, as this is the weather I grew up with ( yay, Oregon weather is sort of back to normal ) but damn… I think it rained more in the first 72 hours of this year then it did in the first 72 days of last year, also was unseasonably hot last year.
But damn… Cold. Hasn’t been above 50 in a while I think, but at least it doesn’t drop below 40 either. Just stays cold and rather damp.
Fully aware that some ( or maybe many ) of you who read this live in colder places then I am, and I am being a bit whiny about it. Also expect however that you live in homes that are better insulated and have better furnaces than my crappy oil one (which will cost me about the same as two and a half months rent to refill the oil tank on once it runs out this year ( freaking gas / oil prices… )).
Anyways, home from being out for the day and whining about the weather while I wait for the space heater in my bathroom to get that room to a temperature that allows feet to survive contact with the tile floor.
Also, waiting on my email to download. Someone sent me a file that is close to 8meg and my poor little weenie dial-up connection is choking on it. Which also reminds me that I have an apparently big patch to download for CoX still since it has been about.. uh.. twelve days since I’ve logged in from my home machine and actually played. Oi…
(Originally posted at A Home Away from Hythia)