We’re in the regular summer cycle here in Central Florida. Typically, we get thundershowers nearly every afternoon during the summer.
About mid afternoon the bright sunshine gives way to fast moving isolated thunder cells that provide a great light and sound show and dump lots of rain in a short period of time. Then, just as suddenly, the clouds move off and the bright sunshine returns, bringing with it a jump in humidity.
In recent years that cycle has been not so regular. The summers have been dryer with sometimes weeks going by without rain. That results below average rainfall, low water tables, our usually lush lawns drying up, water restrictions and wildfires burning the tender dry forests and grasslands.
This year though, it seems like those showers are back, albeit with some variation on the theme. The rains seem to come more in the evenings and at night than usual and the cloudiness tends to last longer, sometimes all day. Its more like what you expect in parts north of here.
I’m not complaining, we need the rain and honestly, I really enjoy hearing the rain on the rooftops and pouring through the trees. There’s nothing like sitting in the swing on the back porch and enjoying a good thunder-boomer. It’s kinda relaxin’, really!
I guess the change in the weather must be due to global warming. After all, isn’t everything else? I mean, we had regular afternoon summer showers, then we didn’t and now again we do, with some changes.
Isn’t global warming responsible for every perceived change in our lives? In our surroundings? In our world?
But wait, didn’t I hear the other day that the earth is not getting hotter. It’s now documented to be cooling down? Algore is wrong? The pictures of melting glaciers and ice caps in “An Inconvenient Truth” are...untrue? A fabrication?
Gosh.
See more voices contrary to the mantra:
Watts Up With That?
Is Global Cooling Next?
There IS a problem with global warming… it stopped in 1998
Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts?
World Climate Report
Global Warming: A Chilling Perspective
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