Completely and utterly topsy turfy weather systems:



and an interesting story to go with this: http://thingsbreak.wordpress.com/2012/09/06/s...ing-of-a-white-christmas/ No dreaming. It will be with high probability, full smack on the gob, more vapor, more cold air driven south, from more warm air driven into the Arctic. El Ninô is in progress now... See the Pacific ocean temps... more than more vapor coming ashore. Get your snow shovels out, and stay save [take the train or bus if there is, rather than the car].

You are, of course ;>)

We've had enough [torrential type] rain last week [3 days in row], that by Friday, the cherry tree which started dropping foliage from 4th week August, perked up and that what has remained is primly up, so it can recover some before it does it's winter hibernation, which was 2 years ago short and deadly, since it blossomed in late February, and that had fruit buds killed by a cold 2 week spell. They never returned to normal healthy produce levels.

The long range models predict heavy snow fall coming winter, but what in summer, you get this, a grand shortfall of meltwater, which then combined with lack of summer precipitation is horror for the farming world:





This is not from [in some quarters, supposedly] incorrectly functioning thermometers ;>)

The Brits are getting it full smack on the gob:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/19687222

Stay dry.

Ha ha --

I've discovered the secret to controlling the weather!!! We've had a long and dry summer here in Colorado Springs. Last Saturday my wife, who is Korean, and I drove to Pueblo, CO to pick some peppers for my wife. We picked 310 pounds of peppers. It was 85 degrees F. My wife cleans them, cuts them open and removes the seeds, sets them out on the deck to dry in the sun, and takes them to a place that has a mill to grind the dried peppers into pepper powder. She sat them on the deck this morning. Within two hours the sun was hidden by the clouds. It rained and turned cold. It is supposed to rain tomorrow ... and Wednesday, ... and Thursday ... and every day in the forecast period.