We have had progressively soupy weather. I can't complain because the weather in Maine this summer has been fabulous.
The local TV station news has been apoplectic about the potential for thunderstorms and tornados. They are embarrassing themselves. Actually giving minute by minute descriptions of where certain tornado "indicators" are showing up on their highly processed radar driven displays.
I would like to propose an alternative: Make announcements that a tornado is possible and leave it alone. Report what happened the next day.
We are too reliant on technology and the news to tell us what is happening.
How about go outside and look at the sky. If it has been sunny and is now dark and foreboding (trying to work a "it was a dark and stormy night" metaphor in here) , humid and the temperature is dropping.
News flash! You are going to get some kind of weather event. This part of the world most likely a thunderstorm.
The human race has been predicting the weather for thousands of years. We don't really need a minute-by-minute update of a suspicious counter rotation on a "meteorologist's" iPad.
All that said, I am pretty sure we received over an inch of rain in a half an hour. It was cool. Because I was inside looking out.
The smell reminded me of Guam, where when I was a kid we would get that kind of rain every day.
Smell is a very powerful reminder. There has to be an evolutionary purpose. These days I pass girls and women and occasionally smell the first girl I ever slow danced with. I don't know if it was shampoo or lotion. I just know the smell.
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