It really hit me how silly it is that Christmas carols are still all about snow and cold while listening to Gloria Estefan's performance of White Christmas. Here's a woman who famously grew up in Miami, and she's still singing about pining for the snowy winters of her youth.
On the other hand, 40° and bucketing rain all week in Oregon. Seems normal to me. (Though being awakened at midnight by thunder and lightning does feel a little... off.)
Well, not exactly normal, since here in western Washington we've had three times our normal rainfall for the last two weeks, but at least it's down in the 40s in the lowlands so that what's falling in the mountains is snow. Hello, next summer's water supply!
Cheers to you!
It's still way too hot down here. Nothing like seeing folk mow their lawns on New Years day.
Some Carols are way off base when they go on about "bleak midwinter" at the moment.
Edited at 2015-12-14 04:13 am (UTC)
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