People exclaimed; animals frolicked.
A lady chatted excitedly on her cellphone as she headed from her car to the office; a couple friends took their lunch outside under the dome of an electric blue sky.
A bunch of buddies chatted about this wonderful weather and the possibility of record low temperatures tomorrow morning.
Folks, this is July only…it’s not.
Or rather, this sure doesn’t feel like July. It felt like an autumn morning when you stepped outside today. But, if you look to the trees, everything is still green. Not a hint of a single falling amber leaf.
Call it the polar vortex or a polar inversion or just that a storm front passed through yesterday and brought pleasant temperatures and low humidity. Whatever the case, I think we could all get used to this. And the beauty of it is this just isn’t a one-day occurrence.
The nice stuff stays with us at least until the weekend.
This is the case across the entire eastern two thirds of the country. The Home Run Derby in Minnesota on Monday night was played under record low temperatures for said event. It’s quite possible that the temps were equally brisk for last night’s All Star Game.
In North Carolina, my friend Ed reports similar weather – except they are a day behind us. From Memphis television stations, reporters tweeted about temps in the 50s. There might have even been a twinge of the white stuff along the northern tier of states.
All this comes halfway through a month more known for swimming than skating; for fireworks more than frost.
I’ve given up trying to describe the weather in East Tennessee or trying to understand the meteorological changes that drive it. Weather is as weather does. It was hot on Monday; it’s not today. It rained yesterday; it’s dry today.
That’s East Tennessee for you.
Just enjoy!
JG
Originally posted 7/16/2014
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