Forecast Poetry
(Nature • )
Humans working for the National Weather Service have been timidly reworking these lines for about three weeks now:
.DAY ONE…TODAY AND TONIGHTA PERSISTENT RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL RESULT IN ANOTHER HOT
AND DRY DAY WITH NEAR RECORD TEMPERATURES. HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL
RANGE FROM 103 TO 108 DEGREES DURING THE AFTERNOON. A HEAT
ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT..DAY TWO…SUNDAY
A PERSISTENT RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL RESULT IN ANOTHER HOT
AND DRY DAY WITH NEAR RECORD TEMPERATURES. HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL
RANGE FROM 103 TO 108 DEGREES DURING THE AFTERNOON. A HEAT
ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT..DAY THREE…MONDAY
AN UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE WILL REMAIN ANCHORED OVER
SOUTHEAST TEXAS RESULTING IN CONTINUED HOT CONDITIONS. AFTERNOON
HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 90S TO AROUND 100 CAN BE EXPECTED.
HEAT INDICES COULD ONCE AGAIN EXCEED 105 DEGREES OVER PORTIONS OF
THE AREA.
How much better to boldly declare:
A PERSISTENT UPPER-LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE MOVES OFF TO THE EAST AS MOISTURE FROM THE GULF BRINGS THE LIKLIHOOD OF QUENCHING BUT NOT GULLY WHOMPING RAIN SHOWERS FOR MUCH OF THE DAY.
Even if the forecaster feels the words won’t come true, who really knows what could happen once tens of thousands of hopeful Texans read the all-caps weather text, absorb its message into their hearts and radiate an enormous wave of expectant relief and satisfaction with their Creator? In return, perhaps the skies shall be unleashed accordingly.
At this point, what could it hurt?
→ B.Dunn, Jun 27, 2009, 04 26 am
