Okay, I feel like I’ve become obsessed by weather lately. I think the colder, grayer, and drearier the weather becomes the more it distracts me. It could be because the gloomier it gets the more I start wondering when we’ll have a nice sunny day to enjoy. I miss being about to go outside without having to bundle up in a warm coat or hiding under a hood or hat to keep the rain and sleet off of my head. And we live in the South, where the winters are supposed to be milder. Well, not this year it seems.
So I realize my obsession is not so much the current weather as to when will the weather turn nice again! We recently had a beautiful day only to slip right back to the winter weather the very next day. On a positive note the kids love being out of school and getting to play in the snow and build a snowman. So I guess not everyone is feeling gloomy about the forecast. Meanwhile, I’ll just keep longing for springtime!
For awhile, during the spring, it seemed like it would never stop raining in the where we live. It had gotten to the point where we craved seeing the sun for just a day to break up the gloomy gray skies we were seeing day after day. The good news is that it finally brought us out of the drought that we had been living with for a couple of years. So as the spring turned into summer everything was lush and green and water was plentiful. And then just like that nature seemed to turn off the water spigot in our area. By mid June we were looking for a break from the relentless sunshine and doing our own silly versions of rain dances to get the clouds to come visit and bring us some much needed rain. Though looking at the map on weather.com makes me grateful I’m not in living in Texas right now.
Of course, while we’re in the midst of mid 90’s and anxious for something to water our crispy yards, we have family in Northern New York that have had non-stop rain for days and days with cool weather reaching only the mid 70’s, which is quite low for mid July, even for that area. I guess that’s just the weather for you, another thing we can’t control. Our local news says there’s rain in the forecast this week, but I’ll believe it when I see it.
