The Heat of New Jersey

It is over 100 degrees outside.

For those of you working in the Celsius system, it is over 37 degrees - ouch. It is brutal outside and that is not even with full humidity. At 50% humidity it is really disgusting. Yesterday was not a breezy, easy day. Sunday was hot, but it took a back seat to this. At least the humidity was even lower and there was a lovely breeze to boot.

It is cloudy out now. It won't do anything, at least that is what my body is telling me, but then again, one never knows. And while the weather for tomorrow is not exciting, it is better than it was this morning, which was supposed be in the 90s - now it is expected to be 86 degrees. 30% chance of precipitation tonight; 60% tomorrow and tomorrow night.

We'll see. I have become very jaded in my years. The weather is an unstable and constantly changing creature, just like language. It's nice to have someone make an attempt to figure out the weather and what we are in for in the next few days, but the truth is that the weather more than 2 days ahead is a total cipher and not for us to really know.

You can argue that the forecasting process has improved dramatically and you would be right. The computer age has made better and more accurate forecasting much better than it was. But it cannot be completely improved upon. There are still entirely too many variables for that.

On the other hand, they do predict bigger weather systems rather well. Tornadoes are too localised to really be categorised that way, but hurricanes are seen coming - more than ever. I will say, though, that the season predictions are not all that good. While 2005 was foreseen to some degree, but they have been saying that 2006 and 2007 would be bad too. Granted, we are only into month number two of the 2007 hurricane season... but what have we had, so far? Let's see...

We've had two tropical storms and they fizzled out rather quickly. Not exactly a screaming indictment of what a scary season lies ahead. And I maybe laughing too soon - there are still 142 days, five hours and 7 minutes of the season remaining, a lot of time for storms to occur and pile heaps of damage upon us. Or the southern states, who take far more abuse at a hurricane's hands than we do up here. However, we are overdue for a big one, so I should not tempt fate.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire. I'm looking forward to the autumn!

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