We seem to have been getting a lot of this years rare commodity lately. The first three months of the year it was very rare, with a 138 year low, but although April appears to be making up for it, with almost double the normal amount, we are still low on liquid sunshine for the year. Enjoy it little flowers, as the heat of a Maryland summer approaches and threatens to dry and shrivel you up along with all of us. Maryland summer arrived last week when temperatures suddenly soared to 90 degrees for 3 days and we were all sweating and looking for summer clothes to put on. Julia started frantically putting winter clothes in boxes and asking me to bring down boxes of summer stuff. Now Maryland has done it to us again, from a high of 92 on Tuesday to a high of 58 on Wednesday, as usual we don't know what hit us. Julia has stopped putting winter away and doesn't know whether to get winter stuff out again or not! The contractors were shivering out there yesterday in their T shirts and shorts whereas only a day earlier they had been frantically downing Big Gulps loaded with ice, pouring ice water on towels wrapped around their heads and bemoaning the lack of sunburn lotion and their burned necks and shoulders. Ah, Maryland, yes this is Maryland, where, "If you don't like the weather, hang around for 15 minutes and it will change." is our Mantra.
Enjoy, David.
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We too are very dry in California, but shou;d have some rain this weekend. It has been suggested that we all cut back on the watering of lawns, but our Association stated that we must keep lawns green, so what are we to do? Maybe rocks are the answer. Daylight is breaking, and the sky seems clear now, although it is cool, 44 degrees right now.
ReplyDeleteAlthough he was a qualified meteorologist, Liddle ran up a terrible record of forecasting for the TV news program. He became something of a local joke when the Gazette began keeping a record of his predictions and showed that he'd been wrong almost three hundred times in a single year. That kind of notoriety was enough to get him fired. He moved to another part of the state (Lake Dr) and applied for a similar job. One blank on the job application called for the reason for leaving his previous position. Liddle wrote, "The climate didn't agree with me."
ReplyDeleteCheerio, old chap, bill