American weather...was: Re: British weather

[Tracy Hunt]

davewitley wrote:
> 
> Perhaps the English Tourist Board could adopt the slogan: "Come to 
> England, where the weather is only moderately uncomfortable".
> 
> Once, one of our cats wanted to go outside but, when we opened the 
> back door he was disconcerted to see it was raining, and promptly 
> went to the front door to see if conditions were any better there.  
> He was disappointed on that occasion, but I feel he had the right 
> idea.
> 
> David, who thinks *anyone* can forecast the weather for a couple of 
> hours - it's getting it right that's the hard part


now Tcy:

As one who has lived in many parts of this country...I can say with 
some degree of confidence that the Brits don't hold a lone title for 
strange weather.  

I personally have lived in the Bay area of California where they have 
2 seasons:  Green and Brown - and they're in the wrong order; 

Rural, central Colorado where winter is from September thru May, 
summer is from June thru August and if you're lucky you see a weekend 
of Spring and Fall somewhere in there (we locals like to call the 2 
main seasons here Winter and Road Construction); 

Central Florida where we have 2 seasons:  Hot & Wet and Hotter & 
Wetter; 

and several areas of the Mid-Atlantic region (Maryland, Delaware, 
Pennsylvania, Virginia and North Carolina) where we usually have 4 
fairly equal-length seasons (Spring, Summer, Winter and Fall) - but 
temperatures and conditions vary greatly from hour to hour depending 
on the mood of the particular weather god directly over your head.

So, while the weather on your side of the pond may be impressive...I 
like to think of ours as having quite a sense of humor!

Tcy
(who really appreciates Mother Nature's sense of humor:  vicious with 
healthy doses of irony and sarcasm)