Feeling like we are doomed.
We have been enjoying some of the greatest weather. Warmth, sunshine, slight breeze. We just bought a patio set which means we can enjoy this spectacular weather while sitting, which makes it even better.
Now, living in this area, we natives know that to have eighty degree weather in March, just ain't right, we break out our capris with caution and sandals, well, only one pair will be taken out of the coveted box o' summer treasures. We expect the cold to come back.
I am a Weather Channel GEEK. I love it, I could watch it for hours and my siblings are the same, all five of them. It's because my father would sit in front of the only TV in our house watching The Weather Channel and the Cubs and that's all we watched. So, we became pros at timing the Local on the 8's, and when exactly Jim Cantore would be on, and that you know if Bob Stokes said it was going to rain, well, by golly, it was going to rain! (and going back to Jim Cantore, I always hoped he would report sans shirt, but it never happened, no matter how damn hot it was. When we lived in Chicago, I can remember Jim reporting from Chicago during a blizzard on Wacker Drive and all I wanted to do was get in the car or hop on The El and get his autograph...or at least ask him to take his shirt off. but I didn't, cuz it was snowin'.)
The Weather Channel isn't just on in my home (or in my sibling's home) during local weather, but any severe weather in the country. I can remember sitting on my bed the night before Katrina hit comparing The Weather Chanenl predictions of high pressures and winds for Katrina on TV with the strongest hurricane stats in history on my laptop. I knew we were in for it. And don't even get me started on tornadoes. Back in May of 1999, a record breaking number of tornadoes hit the Midwest, in Oklahoma, and I remember thinking that I was witnessing weather history, watching the menacing radars. I remember silently praying for the people in the path. May 3rd, 1999. I day I will always remember.
So, today, in a much less dramatic warning, my desktop weather alerted me of a weather watch. One that was much more annoying that it was dangerous, one that, frankly, pissed me off. Here's what it said:
A rapidly moving cold front will move into Northern Illinois and Northwest Indiana this early afternoon. The front will arrive in Chicago around 1pm. The temperature will fall into the 40's along the lake. There will be an increase in clouds...drizzle and rain showers.
A temperature drop of over thirty degrees. Just annoying. As soon as I received the weather update I immediately thought about all my windows that are now opened, the shorts both of my kids are wearing and the guy coming out to give me an estimate on a fence at 2pm, just as the cold front has entered our area.
I better go ride a bike or play in the sandbox.
Oh, I'm so with you. I've got my shorts on today but keep watching the news waiting for them to stop using the term "unseasonably warm". We were 2 degrees away from a record high yesterday, which is cool, but I know that all good things must come to an end. And if it's going to hit you soon, I am not far behind...
Posted by: Thea | March 27, 2007 at 01:25 PM
Sorry - it's my fault - our weather is coming your way. We had capri weather this weekend and now we had, gasp, snow flurries this morning....
Posted by: Jodi | March 27, 2007 at 02:06 PM
We've got to enjoy it while we can I suppose. That's why I took the kids to the beach yesterday. Yes, Lake Michigan, in March wearing shorts and tank tops. It was such a wonderful sense of summer. Now the clouds have rolled in and I hear thunder in the distance. Not a happy camper.
And I too love the weather channel. I will have to take another look at Jim C. I don't recall him being easy on the eyes. But then again, you think guys with short or no hair are hot where I like the ones with the longer hair. Such a difference on our taste of men.
Posted by: Lynette | March 27, 2007 at 02:50 PM
That was funny. Good entry.
It's 82 here right now. :)
Posted by: Elisa | March 27, 2007 at 03:48 PM
oh yeah, I'm with you sista. 77 here right now, and now I know it's coming my way. Boo hoo! We had record heat here yesterday, the warmest day since I was 5 years old! Well, I guess two weeks ago we would've been excited for 40 or above....right? Maybe not you, the person who LOVES HOT HUMID STICKY weather... Anyway, I better go change the kids' clothes, they're outside right now in shorts.
Posted by: Amy A | March 27, 2007 at 04:23 PM
I know, it sucks. We're getting your cold front this weekend. Today it almost reached 80. But I know it's fleeting. Dang.
Posted by: dcrmom | March 27, 2007 at 04:56 PM
Hi! This was my first time here and I thoroughly enjoyed my visit. I grew up in the Midwest so I can relate to today's post. Also, I laughed when I read your comment (or rather "no comment") about Sanjaya last week. I am dying to know what you thought of tonight's performance! :)
Posted by: jodi | March 27, 2007 at 10:07 PM
Weirdly enough, I'm ok with schizophrenic weather in the spring...
I only start to get annoyed when it's June, and the rain won't stop.
Posted by: Faerylandmom | March 28, 2007 at 02:34 PM