Tuesday, April 7, 2009

April Showers Bring...........SNOW???

I was born and raised in Georgia and one thing that you always bet on is our unpredictable weather. Seasons don't matter here. Its April and we have snow! We have 75 degree days in January. Georgia has like a Bermuda Triangle of weather going on. One day it will be nice and sunny. The next day it will get super hot. The next day it will rain. The next day its cloudy and cold. The next day its snow flurries and slush. The next day its sunny again. The meteorologists can sometimes get it right but when they're wrong, its so bad. Today it is snowing. The weather report just said it'll be cold today, didn't mention snow. And when it snows here, its not like snow up north. The snow here is snow as long as its in the air. Once it touches something it melts. So now you got cold wet asphalt. If it gets cold enough to freeze that, then you'll have black ice and accidents and traffic everywhere. But usually it'll just stay wet. The snow here hardly ever sticks and when it does its not much. It'll just looks like somebody salted the city. It was 75 degrees Saturday, raining Monday, and now its snowing on Tuesday. By Thursday or Friday, the temperature will be back in the 70s again. And how do you dress for the weather? Easy, you never pack away any season's clothes. Most people have put up their winter clothes and coats and stuff cause its supposed to be spring. Layering short sleeve shirts under a jacket doesn't work when you're standing at the bus stop or the train station where it can be extremely windy. If you have a car with working heat and AC, you're good. Most people that do, dress how they want. The key is knowing whether or not you'll be outside in the elements. If you're working in an office all day and you'll only go outside to go to lunch or go home, then you dress for the office not the weather. If you work outside, you dress for the weather. If you ride public transportation, you dress for the weather. You have to mix and match your winter and summer clothes here. You just never know. There have been times where the forecast calls for warm sunny day and out of nowhere it'll rain hard as hell. Its crazy. The snow has stopped for now. We'll see how it goes for the rest of the day.

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