English: Intercloud lightnings over Toulouse (France) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
It’s the middle of winter, the end of January, but my weather station tells me the temperature is 67 F and it’s thunder storming. I don’t want to look out the window, any window. I know what is out there. The prompt wants me to look out a window for full minute.
Looking out any of my windows, I see the same thing. It’s storming. The sky is blanketed with a monochrome of grey upon grey. There is no rain upon the window pane as the three-foot eves keep the weather away from the house walls. A puddle forming in the neighbor’s rear yard reports a penetrating rain that has found its way into his basement. I wonder about my own basement; I am afraid to look.
Lightning flashes nearby, forcing me back a step. The shagbark trees in our rear yard are lightning magnets. They’ve been struck a few times since we arrived. When the thunder rolls into the distance, I move back the blinds and take another look. The wind is blowing the rain sideways. There is a twelve-foot branch laying near our fence in another neighbor’s yard. One minute is a long time with wind, hail, and lightning happing just a few feet away. I am happy when the time is up, but take a few seconds longer to notice the wind has ripped the cover off the grill again.
It’s the middle of winter. I should be seeing snow. But, I see a fall landscape with spring weather. Maybe, only a maybe, Global-warming is not a lie; maybe it is a natural cycle of the earth or maybe there is a scientific explanation that I am just not hearing. It’s winter and it’s 67 degrees.
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I wonder if you check out the Farmer’s Almanac for your area over the past ten or twenty years how many days you will see that were over 67 degrees in winter. I bet it’s more than you think. Great response to today’s daily prompt! I’m jealous of your thunder storm – it’s been awhile since I’ve gotten to see a good one.
In Missouri, I think I have seen warmer days. Where I grew up, it doesn’t get this warm in January.
I would have wanted to see that thunder, lightning and gale wind. I love mother nature.
I think I have seen too much of mother nature. Tornadoes, floods, ice storms, snow storms, lightning strikes, straight winds…I agree that it can be beautiful, only not so beautiful in my back yard.
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