Mar 29, 2009

Sinus headache weather

The halcyon good weather of the past 2 weeks lulled me to sleep, and then reality set in -- the winds shifted.

A front approaching from the northwest is drawing up a slug of moist and cloudy skies from the southwest.


That moist air flow put some curl in the surf (usually the gulf coast is placid), drizzled us a few rain drops, and gave us a blanket of overcast skies. 

But even if you didn’t make it to the beach or venture outside for that matter, the tell tale sign was hard to ignore: cranky ankles, bum sports knees, and – most dehabilitating of all – the dreaded sinus headaches were acting up all across town.

I was fortunate, my sinuses were fine, and I escaped my athletic youth relatively scot-free – but I did get a minor heart palpitation glancing at the Naples weather chart.



The past two nights never made it below the 70º F mark!

That’s an early taste of the long summer nights to come – from June through September – when early morning temperatures hover in the 70º - 75º F range.)



But it’s still premature to call it summer just yet.

Naples average nighttime low just broke above 60º F mark, (and on average it doesn’t break above 70º until the end of May).


That leaves us a solid two months of good spring weather … starting tomorrow, when that cold front finally breaks through!

We'll get at least one night in the high 50s out of it.

7 comments:

Lilly said...

It's getting colder here...well we're getting more electrical storms.

The photos are beautiful.

Lou said...

Sinus headaches are a plague in Michigan..except for me. I've never had one!
We actually got 1" of snow last night.

ChrisC and JonJ said...

Yep-the sinus attack is in full bloom this morning.I had hopes the rain would wash all the junk out of the air,but I think it just washed it into me!

Betsy from Tennessee said...

Seems like it's already summer down there to me--when you talk about your temperatures. Soon it will be too hot everywhere and I'll be complaining about that!!!! ha ha

We had a wonderful trip to Serenity Falls. Check out my blog today..
Betsy

fishing guy said...

Rob: Yes, it is Spring and the weather is slowly warming.

The Birdlady said...

I culd handle that 70 low just fine!
Did you find that snake yet?

Robert V. Sobczak said...

Thanks for you comments.

The sinus headaches are more pervasive than we give them credit for, and besides putting people in bad moods, can also be a work safety hazard. Even worse, there is no good trick for making them better, or less chronic ... other than a change in the weather.