You folks in the upper midwest, northeast, and most of Canada are no doubt used to the kind of weather that can crack your skin, chap your lips in minutes, give you nosebleeds, and turn you into a spark generator. (I remember it all too well from living in Minnesota.)<\/p>\n
Not so in this mild, soggy corner of the nation. At least not so until today. We’ve been having unusually cold, dry weather for days. Temps have barely squeaked above freezing during their daytime highs. Now, with a rising gale out of the east, we’re expecting outside humidity below 40% and inside humidity as low as 10%. <\/p>\n
Local weather mavens have warned (humorously? I’m not sure) against being around flammable gasses lest we set them off with our personal electric charges.<\/p>\n
We’re used to El Nino and La Nina causing their standard varieties of havoc. El Arido — “the dry one” — is totally new.<\/p>\n
And may I say unwelcome.<\/p>\n
S’posed to be like this for most of the next three days.<\/p>\n
At which point it may warm all the way up to 39. And start raining. Heavily.<\/p>\n
How many months of winter have we already had? Isn’t it about time for it to end now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You folks in the upper midwest, northeast, and most of Canada are no doubt used to the kind of weather that can crack your skin, chap your lips in minutes, give you nosebleeds, and turn you into a spark generator. (I remember it all too well from living in Minnesota.) Not so in this mild, soggy corner of the nation. At least not so until today. We’ve been having unusually cold, dry weather for days. Temps have barely squeaked above freezing during their daytime highs. Now, with a rising gale out of the east, we’re expecting outside humidity below 40%…<\/p>\n