Tuesday, November 28, 2017

It Was Nice While It Lasted

Weather Song (to the tune of "Oh My Darling")
What’s the weather?
What’s the weather?
What’s the weather, everyone?
Is it windy?
Is it cloudy?
Is there rain?
Or is there sun?
(Author Unknown)

The calendar says it's late November, but the temperatures here don't agree. Ever since last Friday the highs have been 10 to 20 degrees over our average 50° Fahrenheit, and a couple of days they've flirted with record-setting. 

This morning when I left the house for a work assignment all I needed was a light jacket.  By the time I was finished it was warm enough to ditch the jacket and walk around in my shirtsleeves.  I drove around doing some errands, and the sun beaming into my car made things downright toasty.  I really wanted to fritter the day away, but (sadly) had to get back home to do paperwork.

When I walked into the house I realized how stuffy it felt compared to the outside. It was all closed up and the furnace was on, because it hadn't occurred to me to turn it off.   So that's the first thing I did.  It felt delightfully decadent to open up some windows and let the fresh air in.  The cats weren't particularly impressed, waking up from their nap just long enough to notice that something was different before going back to sleep again.

I also pulled my flip flops out from the back of the closet, but stopped short of changing out of my jeans.  Things stayed nice until the sun went down, then the temperature started dropping enough that I regretfully closed the house back up and turned the furnace back on.  According to the forecast tomorrow's temperature will be close to normal and we'll need it.

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10 comments:

  1. Normal will be nice, except I won't recognize it.

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  2. The weather is doing strange things. It was in the 60's in Toronto yesterday. We were wearing boots a couple of days before that.

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    1. Extreme changes make it really hard to plan, don't they?

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  3. It's been much warmer in southern California this fall than usual. MUCH warmer.

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  4. It's fairly normal for November here at the moment, with sub-zero temperatures and ice on the puddles, but it certainly has been very mild. The number of flowers still out in my garden is quite extraordinary.

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    1. All of my flowers have pooped out for the year, but today I was out for a walk and noticed a fair number of mums still blooming.

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  5. Wow! Southern California is burning but here in Oregon its freezing. But sunny, with morning fog. Highs in 40's

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    1. I can handle the cold much better if the sun is out.

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