At last Silicon Valley is getting the rain we need. It all comes at once for a few months and then nothing until same time next year. So our water supply is filling up right now. It is quite chilly too but going into the seesaw weather of spring with very warm and chilly temps off and on. I look at the news and see Chicago in the 80's and I am shocked and snow in warmer climates. Well it is finally snowing in the Sierra Mountains here too which is the other part of our water supply. When the snows melt the runoff adds to the resevoirs and wherever else water is held.
Wacky weather! That is what the headline somewhere, I can't remember, online said about what most saavy people by now know as climate change or global warming. 80+ degrees in Chicago at St. Patrick's Day? I've never heard of it! I can remember living in downstate Illinois in high school and in Evanston just north of Chi town in the 60's and the wealthier girls were outside freezing in swimsuits, laying out in their backyards to get their skins ready for deep tanning in Florida over the spring break next month. Later on these girls and younger ones following them would come to school with raw faces from sitting under sun lamps waaayyy too long. I never participated in these rituals, waiting until warm late May and finally June to be out in bikinis in the sun. Now I stay out of the sun quite a bit because the atmosphere is very thin and burning is easy causing possible skin cancer. I still get a deep tan every year, wouldn't miss it!
So this is 2012 and the weather is the most turbulent so far! This is the year scientists call the tipping point where we reach the point of no return as far as global warming is concerned. This strange weather is only beginning to ramp up.
For now though, it is a time of rainbows where I live. I don't live where the wind is very wild for a reason. It causes wild fears in me to rise. Earthquakes seem milder to me than the cyclonic storms racking back East. Happy spring!
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