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Inaugural post
May. 1st, 2010 10:25 pmSince I'm a weather nerd, it would be easy for me to use this project to just babble about weather. I intend to try to avoid that, mostly. However...
April turned over to May with two nights in a row of extensive severe storms and tornadoes all over the state. It was an exhausting two nights. In the end, the damage and death toll could have been much worse here, but the storm system continued east and later caused the Columbia River to flood Nashville. I'm hoping it's not an indicator of the rest of the spring storm season.
I have long admired weather and nature diarists from times past. You know, those meticulous dead white dudes who would write down, every day, what the clouds were like in their corner of England, or on which day the first frost occurred in Pennsylvania, or when the robins were sighted for the first time. Not exciting reading at the time, but decades and centuries later, their writings can be mined for climate data and species behavior patterns. So maybe I'm thinking of that a little here, but mostly I think I just want to have a clear, simple task that records the things I notice all the time.
April turned over to May with two nights in a row of extensive severe storms and tornadoes all over the state. It was an exhausting two nights. In the end, the damage and death toll could have been much worse here, but the storm system continued east and later caused the Columbia River to flood Nashville. I'm hoping it's not an indicator of the rest of the spring storm season.
I have long admired weather and nature diarists from times past. You know, those meticulous dead white dudes who would write down, every day, what the clouds were like in their corner of England, or on which day the first frost occurred in Pennsylvania, or when the robins were sighted for the first time. Not exciting reading at the time, but decades and centuries later, their writings can be mined for climate data and species behavior patterns. So maybe I'm thinking of that a little here, but mostly I think I just want to have a clear, simple task that records the things I notice all the time.
