So as I've mentioned, some of us Seattlites joke about the warm weather arriving July 5th. We usually will get a random streak of days once or twice before then that's warm-ish, but we had this strange incident last weekend. Well, I think the whole west coast had a strange weather incident last weekend. It reached eighty here. I hear LA reached 105 or 110 or something crazy. Which, if it was the east coast at a similar latitude, I don't think 80 would be unusual, given their climate patterns and lovely springtimes. However it was low fifties the day before, and fifty the day after. Then, a couple days later, it snowed.
I, personally, am not comfortable with the climate leaping around like that. I'm not sure what's up with the Pacific's winds and pressure systems, but it's relatively unnerving to me. Not only is snow at the end of April annoying (snow before March is fun; after, depressing), wildly vacillating temperatures from day to day are so un-Seattle. Global warming? Perhaps, perhaps not... it's not as if we never had stuff like this happen before the concept was as widely discussed and accepted, but still, I'm used to the hold-out-and-be-stoic-in-the-rain-until-July mantra that Northwesterners adopt. We are stoic... and more prone to depression and suicide, but that's not the point.
It's not snowing here today as it was yesterday, it's actually quite pleasant, but god help me, it had better not get warm while I'm on the east coast next week. That would be sick and wrong, and just my luck.
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