Rant #3,670: Some Like It Hot

It's Earth Month!

Everyone complains about the weather, and I certainly do.

It is certainly the craziest during the spring, when temperatures can range from the high 20s to the low 80s overnight.

We had a day like that last week, when one day, it was in the 80s and the next day was in the 30s.

People went from shorts and then right back to winter jackets in one fell swoop.

Yesterday, it was in the 40s, and as busy as I was, I still felt it, having the heat on in the car for at least part of the time that I drove from here to there.

Mother Nature has it all on us, and we can't control the weather--

We can just experience it, and do the best that we can.

Some people believe that moving south is the solution, but that isn't necessarily true.

And if it isn't the weather, you have hurricanes and other weather disturbances in Florida and other southern states to contend with.

For me, the south is a nice place to visit, but I don't know if it is a place where I want to live full time.

There are plusses, and there are certainly minuses when you compare the north with the south.

On a post that spoke about the crazy weather we have experienced in the winter and the spring this year, some of the posters put up that they want to move south to experience more warmth.

Yes, I have been in Florida and Georgia many times since 1975, and yes, during those 50 years, I have enjoyed the heat like anyone would.

But the first time I went to Florida, in 1975 or so, I did not feel the heat at all.

Here is what I wrote:

"My first trip to Florida was in 1975, and that was the Spring Break where for the first time, temperatures in Miami Beach reached only 32 degrees.

My friends and I were in a room with air conditioning that you could not shut off, and we put towels over the air conditioning and slept in our winter jackets.

All the coconuts froze up, so you couldn't even get one that was good without a lot of trouble. 

It did warm up, but I think over that week, we went to the beach maybe once or twice."

Shiver me timbers!

And that happened a half century ago, when the term "climate change" wasn't even around.

Look, before you know it, it will be plenty warm up in the north, so we just have to bide our time and wait for that to happen.

At least let's be happy that we didn't get too much snow this past season.

I think that threat is over, but Mother Nature generally doesn't care what the date is--

And she may still have an April Fools surprise for us up her sleeve.