“…I don’t just wish you rain, Beloved – I wish you the beauty of storms…”
More croci and snowdrops have bloomed in the front garden which gets the first sun in the morning. The purple crocus is the newest one. It sits among the many yellow croci. More snowdrops have bloomed beside the steps. Their white flowers are brilliant against the dark of last year’s mulch. Every morning the garden seems to have a new flower, a surprise for me.
A light grey cloudy sky hides the sun. When I look out the den window, the bare branches look stark. The sun usually softens the look of them. No buds have appeared yet, not even on my forsythia always the first to bloom.
When I was a really little kid, I didn’t notice the subtleties of the world around me. I noticed the changing leaves in fall, the trees full of green shading the sidewalk on my way to school and the snow and the rain. I didn’t notice the smell of summer rain or the strange color of the sky before a snow storm until I was a little older. I always wondered how I could have missed them, the wonderful pieces of the changing weather.
I remember how the sky would start to darken and the darkness would deepen and spread. I knew a storm was coming, a huge storm, and I got to watch it from the very beginning. My heart would beat a little faster as the clouds, dark, threatening and scary, moved above me. Sometimes I could even see the rain coming at me, and I’d run into the house. I’d sit by the window and watch it all unfold in front of me. The drops were heavy and there were so many the rain ran like a river in the gutters along the street. The houses near mine became indistinct, hidden by the rain.
I stayed and watched. Sometimes the rain stopped slowly small drop by small drop. Other times it just stopped, finished in its fury.
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March 23, 2014 at 2:11 pm
We got a rather nice day after all. It started chilly and wind free, then the sun came and the wind started blowing again but it died out a few hours before the sun went down.
I remember seeing the first flowers and buds in spring when I was a kid but that was perhaps because we had so many gardeners in my family but the rest I missed 🙂
I think I really became aware of signs when I was older and bought my sail boat, it is necessary to see the changes before the storms come because ones life could depend on it.
9000 cranes here at the moment and more is coming every day.
Have a great day!
Christer.
March 23, 2014 at 2:51 pm
Christer,
It is 45˚ now and will go down to the 20’s tonight and be freezing tomorrow. The weather is just plain crazy.
I never really noticed spring flowers much. My dad used to put a few annuals in the front garden and that was all I remember.
The sky over the ocean is spectacular at sunsets and before rain storms.
I really wish I could see those cranes!
Enjoy your evening!
March 23, 2014 at 2:33 pm
Today the clouds are clearing and the sun is shining. We got absolutely no rain yesterday. When I was flying we could top the baby thunderstorms that pop up in the Northeast at 41,000 ft. The really bad cumulus momma storms in the Midwest can tower to over 60,000 ft and penetrating one of them can tear the wings off any airplane. They looked majestic and beautiful from aloft but they could spawn killer tornados and violent straight line winds on the ground. Nature can be beautiful as well as very dangerous. I don’t want to swim with the sharks and I always circumnavigated those big storms by at least twenty miles.
If I realized as a kid how quickly time flies I would have paid more attention to the things that were amazing. Kids think they are immortal and think they have all the time in the world. I’m amazed how many of us survived adolescence.
March 23, 2014 at 3:07 pm
Bob,
I’d want my pilot to avoid major thunderstorms. Nothing worse that the plane jerking all around scaring the heck out of everyone.
I’d also pay more attention not only to the amazing but also to the every day. I think I’d cherish the time with my parents and make lots more memories.
March 23, 2014 at 4:35 pm
There are three rules for thunderstorms and wind shear when flying an airplane. AVOID, AVOID AND AVOID. Weather radar is designed to show areas of precipitation intensities and is an avoidance aid and not designed for thunderstorm penetration. I’m not talking about getting bounced around and being scared, I’m talking about the airplane breaking apart inflight. The other hazard is rapid accumulation of ice on the airplane in a thunderstorm. Ice adds weight and changes the shape of the airfoil. Aircraft are not designed for fight into severe icing conditions. The moisture in the atmosphere is driven upwards during the cumulus stage of the thunderstorm and turns into ice above the freezing level. Sometimes the rain drops are driven upwards in the cloud get heavy enough to fall in the form of hail 😦
The normal temperature at 35,000 ft. is approximately minus 40 degrees. It doesn’t matter F or C because minus 40 it’s where the two scales cross.
March 23, 2014 at 4:53 pm
Bob,
I knew the temperature was at a really low mine something, but I didn’t know that at minus 40 the two scales cross. That really interesting.
I’ve watched planes being de-iced before take-off, but I never thought about ice forming while the plane is in the air.
I know turbulence which lasts a bit makes me edgy, but I also know the pilot is doing his best to get out of it. I always sigh in relief when the plane settles down.
March 23, 2014 at 4:11 pm
Hi Kat,
I think I was in my early 20’s before I noticed that if one looks out over an expanse of trees coming into bud in early spring, it looks like autumn color seen through a heavy mist. Then I started noticing that the green of new leaves in spring is mostly pinks and yellows and colors other than green.
I’m having alternating clouds and sun up here. The wind is a little brisk, too. When the sun is out it’s not too bad.
New signs of spring have appeared. No flowers yet but I spotted some skunk cabbages peeking above the ground. The place they normally show up first has been covered in snow or ice until yesterday. Apparently they have been poking up underneath all that for a while.
And I just read on Facebook that my favorite ice cream stand will be opening for the season on April 5th. We’re looking at SUMMER now, folks. 😀
Enjoy the day.
March 23, 2014 at 4:57 pm
Hi Caryn,
No sun appeared at al today, but it was fairly warm. The cold weather is due tonight, quite a drop from today, and it will stay awhile.
No snow on the ground here so I get to watch the flowers appear and grow. I love finding new buds and keeping an eye so I don’t miss the flowers. I forgot I had planted new bulbs last fall.
Ice cream, I love it, and I figure my places will be opening in April as well.
Have a great evening!
March 23, 2014 at 4:44 pm
A nor-easter scheduled for Wed??? You down on the cape look like you’re going to get snow. We here in NH might escape it.
The bolgatanga weather shows 105, 104, 107 every day.
March 23, 2014 at 4:59 pm
Bill,
I don’t remember Bolga being that hot every day though I did have a candle melt without ever being lit. It flattened in the heat. When I’d get up from my chair in the living room, a sweaty outline of my body was there on the cushion.
It is against the laws of nature that we get snow and you don’t!
March 23, 2014 at 6:11 pm
Your latest weather reports remind me of an old song by Can:
“She brings the rain, it feels like spring”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhBiwc8Bx84
(Smuggling nice old German Krautrock into KTCC…)
March 23, 2014 at 6:21 pm
Birgit,
This is a great song. Smuggle away!!
The newest weather report says we might get as much as 15 inches of snow starting Tuesday into Wednesday.
It will be 10 tomorrow night, but next weekend we should have almost 60˚.