Brrrrrr, from one end of the country to the other, our
weather temperatures have behaved like a young’un with his first yo-yo.
A few
weeks back, even California barely passed the 40-degree mark, yet last week, I
enjoyed several balmy, 80+ days under blue skies.
My
East Coast friends though, wouldn’t talk weather with me as they stocked up on
wood and oil, and hunkered down to watch the snowflakes pile up to their window
sills.
Playing yo-yo with our
weather, Mother Nature can’t seem
to make up her mind (well, she is a
woman and entitled to change her mind, of course). Up or down, it never stays in walk-the-dog mode long enough to get
used to it.
One
day it’s pseudo-summer, the next, it’s an algid 5d. and we’re slip-sliding
through the snow. So, what do you think Zoe the cat is thinking on her first venture in the snow?
ALGID (alʹjid)
adj. – cold, chilly. [Freakin' freezing!]
Various
“experts” in all related sciences – or none – can snap your frozen ear off,
debating one side or other of many and sundry global warming issues. But there are three irrefutable facts ...
