Moving Into The Next Phase

Looking at the weather map and looking at what will happen over the next 5-10 days, it got me to wondering.... are we approaching the end of the winter/spring wet season?  Typically May and early June are dry.  The fronts don't come through quite as often, and they become increasingly poor producers of rain.  We see the high pressure ridge build in and we see the rain ratchet back until late June, when we see the summer thunderstorms begin.  So looking at the weather maps, as we move into next week we'll see the big ridge move in across the southeast, fronts and storms setting up through the plains and parts of the mid-west.  The system is set to move through here late next week, but by then probably pulling well north.  In the meantime, you can't ask for better weather than this.  Low 80's during the day, upper 50's or so at night.  May have to turn on the AC, unless you open your windows in the morning hours to let some cooler air in.  It's typically better to do it then, since the pollen flying around is worse in the afternoon and evening since the winds gradually pick up during the day.  The winds are calmer in the morning, and there's less pollen being stirred up.  There's my green idea for earth day.

Random Thoughts of the Day

Ok, two completely random thoughts.  Nothing to do with weather and not even sure they're all that entertaining, but it's my blog so here we go.

- So somebody sees a bathrobe, thinks to themselves, "Hmm, maybe I'll wear it backwards and see what happens."  They do, they stay warm like a blanket but their arms are free to go about their business.  They think, "Hmm.  I think I've found something."  They package it as a blanket with arms, wear it to football games and such in the commercials.  Despite it sounding like somewhat of a hokie product, millions are sold, they're worn all over the country, even in pub crawls.  The Snuggie is born.  Backwards bathrobe to fortune.  Only in America.  Wish I had though of that.

- You know how you have to type in the word in the box when logging into some websites (to prove you're not a computer).  It started as a word slightly tilted, then maybe a little bent.  Now you as a human can't read the word anymore.  And then what word am I typing?  You used to type in a word like "snuggie" or "bathrobe".  Now it's a strange word like "circumspectness" or "happenchance".  You can't read those words when they do a loop like the mindbender and then there's a line through it and a ligthning bolt and some letters are different colors and one's uppercase and then there are random numbers thrown in and then random symbols from the periodic table are thrown in for good measure.  I don't know if there's a solution to the problem, but I know there has to be an easier way than picking up your laptop right up to your face and spinning it around three times before figuring out the word.

Like I said, just random thoughts.  Feel free to share yours.  Have a good one.

Steve Milone / FOX 5 Weather Authority