The winds of November

Today is a blustery day in which the temperature is predicted to be lower than the average for this day. My calender talks about an old English word: flaws. Apparently, this is a word which described sudden gusts of wind. We travelled through the Autumn for such a long time in such delightful weather, where neither the air conditioner nor the heater was required, but now find ourselves in a time where the temperature has dropped so that the high today is supposed to be in the middle fifties. As I understand it, that is lower than the average high for this time of year. However, I can remember many times in Georgia where the temperature was much milder than you would expect in the rest of the country.

I come from the mid-South, where snow can fall in late November and stay for months at a time. I remember particularly my grandmother's funeral when the grey skies brought cold temperatures followed by a blizzard of snow. It never got very warm the entire time we were there for that sad task. But here in Georgia, we might get snow in November, followed by warm days which allow you to spend the day outside in such pursuits as you might expect in the Spring or even Summer. This can happen even in December and January. That is one of the things which makes Georgia so appealing.

Of course, we need some rain, desperately. I wouldn't mind a good week of rainfall. The ground could use it and the reservoirs in North Georgia could definitely use it. I know the news programs use the absolutely worst film footage to exemplify the problem, but I have seen it myself. The level of Lake Lanier in Gainesville is drastically dropped. Lake Allatoona is the same. And I recently travelled over the Chattahoochee River twice south and west of Atlanta, and they both seemed to be riding quite high into Alabama and Florida. As far as I could tell, those states have no one to blame if they have water problems.

Well, enough weather talk. Perhaps I will find a better topic later in the day.