They stampede into town from every corner of the sky. The thunderous approach of their hooves and sun-eclipsing clouds they kick up are cautiously greeted by Floridians with an equal dose alarm and routine:
It’s time to take cover … a drenching of apocalyptic proportions may be on the way.
Who are the horsemen?Three of our four horseman ride into town in the summer and fall.
They are the enhanced sea breeze (Florida’s bread and butter storms), the giant Cape Verde hurricanes that spawn off the coast of Africa, and the often smaller in strength but gorged with moisture tropical disturbances that arc up from the gulf and Caribbean.
The fourth – the continental front – rides to town, or more correctly stated, usually rides into town, for unpredicable downpours here and there during our 7 month winter and spring dry season.
Not this year, or not enough this year.
Apparently someone forgot to open the “great stable in the sky” and let that horse run free.
13 comments:
Great post, Bob. I was thinking before you said it that somebody forgot to open the barn door (or stable door) to let your 4th horse visit you this year!!!!
Darn!!!
Betsy
I don't know how you can keep on coming up with these great analogies and fascinating photos to spice up your very informative posts! I love it. Have a great day, Bob :)
I, too, keep coming back for more about a subject quite foreign to me! It's the writing, of course.
Rob: Very interesting graphic showing the rainfall. That was a very neat analogy.
Great post -- great writing!! :-D And thank you for visiting my "Aztec Vulture" at pottery.about.com
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Being a horse lover, I really enjoyed visualizing the beauties romping over the state bringing relief Come on Florida, get that door open.
Thanks for your comments.
I developed this analogy while speaking with a state meteorologist a year ago, or was it the year before. It works well at many levels. We have big rains on the Florida peninsula, bigger than anywhere else I've ever been. In the case of the tropical storms, we start watching them approaching hundreds of miles away. At times it can cause anxiety.
And thanks for all the compliments on my writing. As much as I love numbers, writing is my first love ... or is it water?
I hope Fla. gets all the rain it needs this year.
That fourth horse hasn't made it to Tennessee lately, either. Maybe it will soon come to visit both of us.
The jet stream's GPS must be broken! And it is pushing the weather fronts in the wrong direction much of the time. It seems to get to the panhandle then turn north instead of moving on to the everglades.
Wow! Interesting blog. You do a good job making it enjoyable. Beautiful horse pic too. Thanks for the visit.
I like the analogy of the 4 horsemen. Hope someone opens the barn door and lets the 4th one out for a spring gallop.
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