How Is the Weather?

Somehow I end up asking this every so often. I tend to think of it in a climate-changing way; as if I personally could track the global changes by asking my friends how it’s going in their neck of the woods.

I’d probably know more if I actually paid attention to national news, as in the kind you watch on TV. Not going to happen. I’d rather ask my friends what’s up.

So I guess it’s flooding in Texas right now. Yes, that was an intended understatement. I have a friend in the Houston area, so I actually care. California is once again bone dry. The Girl seems to think people will collect the water in Texas and ship it to California. Um…. yeah.

Here it’s a bit odd. The people in charge of releasing water from our various dams are confused. On one hand we had enough snow pack to fill the reservoirs. On the other, the reservoirs aren’t filling up as fast as they “should”. They have no idea if there will be enough water to meet demand.

Some are predicting a long, hot summer. In our case that means a long, hot forest fire season. I’m not looking forward to that.

Last night we got pebble sized hail stones. Mr. Al ran outside with a cup to catch a few. The Girl tried to stop him, saying he’d get hurt. I told her to leave him be. A second later we hear him shout “Ow” as he got pelted.

I guess with hail stones adding to the snow pack, I’m not all that worried about the reservoirs.

So how’s the weather where you are?