Blue Sky Limousine

I’ve noticed that in our area it seems like the rain is performing a scaled enactment of the global drought-flood theory for future weather. It’s said that we can expect many more extremes weather-wise, as a growing replacement for our normal “softer” weather shifts. This seems to be reflected locally.

We used to get rain storms that would last at least an hour. Now we’re lucky if we get rain that lasts more than fifteen minutes. The thunder used to arrive quickly and leave quickly. Now it lingers a ways away and seems to last a lot longer.

The rain shows up fast, comes down sudden and hard, and then lightens up quickly. Then it comes back with heavy-sounding droplets, and then fades.

Whenever it rains, the sense usually is, “Oh, all right, it’s raining! Good, our lawn could do with some liquid refreshment.” But it rarely lives up to expectation, with such a shortened duration.

A couple of months ago, during the summer, it rained for a week straight. I wonder if patterns of weather like that will translate to the winter? What if the weather will become more extreme when it’s colder? Maybe we’ll get a four-month blizzard…