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Glorious Sun
Jan. 13th, 2010 06:01 pmWe saw the sun today! Amazing.
While most of you might think seeing the sun is a daily occurrence, here where I live, we rarely see it in Jan. and Feb. It's been at least a week, probably two, since we haven't had fog all day. Clouds, I can take. But this fog is so dreary. And *cold*! My friend who used to live in Alaska would remark, when she came home to visit, how it was colder her during winter than it was in Alaska. This isn't true, temperature-wise, of course, but it *feels* colder. When it's summer, we have a dry heat, but during winter, we have a moist cold, and it just seeps into your bones. What we get is pea-soup fog at night. I've seen it so bad that you have to drive with your windows down to listen for cars, because you certainly can't see them until you're on top of them. Crossing streets is a crapshoot. And then during the day, it'll lift, so it's off the ground around 10 am or 11, but it's still there, just right above, lingering, lurking, pressing down on you. With clouds, at least you see some variation in color, consistency, a flash of sky between. But with high fog, there's just GRAY cotton candy stretching as far as you can see. Yes, I hate the fog. Some years are worse than others. Last year wasn't so bad. This year wasn't so bad until this stretch happened.
But yesterday some rain moved in, and the fog disappered. Rain I can handle. I like the rain. We need the rain, desperately. Today, the sky was washed of all the smog and fog and we saw blue sky and it was so much warmer! I even got out in the yard and worked for a little bit. It's supposed to rain a lot all next week. Hope it does. After 3 years of drought, we need a groundwater recharge desperately here.
While most of you might think seeing the sun is a daily occurrence, here where I live, we rarely see it in Jan. and Feb. It's been at least a week, probably two, since we haven't had fog all day. Clouds, I can take. But this fog is so dreary. And *cold*! My friend who used to live in Alaska would remark, when she came home to visit, how it was colder her during winter than it was in Alaska. This isn't true, temperature-wise, of course, but it *feels* colder. When it's summer, we have a dry heat, but during winter, we have a moist cold, and it just seeps into your bones. What we get is pea-soup fog at night. I've seen it so bad that you have to drive with your windows down to listen for cars, because you certainly can't see them until you're on top of them. Crossing streets is a crapshoot. And then during the day, it'll lift, so it's off the ground around 10 am or 11, but it's still there, just right above, lingering, lurking, pressing down on you. With clouds, at least you see some variation in color, consistency, a flash of sky between. But with high fog, there's just GRAY cotton candy stretching as far as you can see. Yes, I hate the fog. Some years are worse than others. Last year wasn't so bad. This year wasn't so bad until this stretch happened.
But yesterday some rain moved in, and the fog disappered. Rain I can handle. I like the rain. We need the rain, desperately. Today, the sky was washed of all the smog and fog and we saw blue sky and it was so much warmer! I even got out in the yard and worked for a little bit. It's supposed to rain a lot all next week. Hope it does. After 3 years of drought, we need a groundwater recharge desperately here.
