Rant #2,087: Automatically Sunshine

What is going on with the weather in my neck of the woods?

Today is Wednesday, February 21, and as the day goes on, it is going to feel more like May 21 than February 21.

Where I am, the weather people tell us that it is going to be in the 70s today, after a day that it was in the mid-60s.

Notice, I did not say that it was going to be seven degrees today ... I said 70 degrees.

If that happens--and we have been assured that it would--it would break a record that has lasted for decades, since 1930.

Then why complain?

Nobody is complaining, although I, personally, will be shut in the entire day at work, and I usually do not go out for lunch, so I will miss the bulk of the heat.

But that is not going to keep it from reaching into the 70s today, so those who can will be able to enjoy it.

Is it global warming, the current buzz term that people like to use when the weather gets as unseasonable as it will today?

I don't know, I just don't know.

All I can say is that this is the warmest February weather I can ever remember.

Top that off by the fact that we got snow on just this past Saturday, and you realize that the weather is as topsy turvy as it has ever been in these parts.

And all of this is happening while other parts of the country are suffering from extreme cold and lots of snow.

The weather makes absolutely no sense, but you just have to go with it while it lasts ...

And it isn't going to last very long, based on what the weather forecasters are telling us.

Tomorrow, the temperature will dip into the 40s, so we will lost 25 to 30 degrees of heat in the span of 24 hours.

It will get back into the 50s as the week goes on, so it is still going to be very warm for this time of year, although today, the temperature will reach its apex.

And while I am sure that driving back and forth to work, I will see people outside in shorts and T-shirts today, the fact of the matter is that we are still in the middle of winter, and we have the remainder of February coming up, the entirety of March, and the beginning of April to experience yet, and during that about 50-day span, I will bet we will get colder and that snow will return.

So we just have to go with the flow today, and do it knowing that this simply cannot last.

I would not be surprised if several days from now, I write a Rant lamenting that "just a few days ago, we were in the 70s, and today, we are in the single digits and expect snow."

So keep the winter wear out, you are still going to need it.