Which is by way of saying, "Damn!  It's cold out there!"  The temperature is 55, with a forecast high of 61, which doesn't sound so bad -- until you consider the 30 mph northeast wind ( Read more... )

Big thunderstorm last night, right overhead.  My building even lost power for a few minutes.  I was on the verge of grabbing a lighter and hunting up a candle (it wasn't pitch black -- the streetlights were still on) when everything came back on again ( Read more... )

when I got up, with a forecast high of 83.  Doesn't sound too bad, does it?  Except the humidity is 82%, the air is just hanging like a wet rag, the city already has a lot of stored heat from the past week, when the temps have been running upper 80s to 90s, and the low last night wasn't low enough to drain any of the heat out of my building.  I'm ( Read more... )

A thunderstorm, and I'm not out in the middle of the park with no shelter in sight.

Stranger things have happened, I guess.

In 45 years, it has never rained on our Parade.

Just a reminder.

But for some reason, I'm not gloomy myself.  Maybe I've finally adjusted to the spring weather seesaw.  Even yesterday, when it was 20 degrees cooler, I wasn't grumpy.

Also, I seem to have quite inadvertently had my own little Chris Hemsworth fest:   watched both Thor films, The Avengers, and splurged and bought Black Hat, which is probably better ( Read more... )

So I woke up in the wee hours with Kimmo Pohjonen's "Utu" running through my head. Needless to say, that album -- Uniko, a collaboration with Kronos Quartet -- was first on this morning's playlist. The opening of "Utu" suits -- it's mild and rainy (actually quite warm -- almost 70 at 5 am), and it's a nice, slow, almost languid opening. The rest ( Read more... )

I guess if you keep predicting rain long enough, eventually, it will rain -- which it did all morning. I did go out, during a break in the downpour, and was actually considering going out again, since it had gotten so much warmer -- nearly 70. And of course, just as I was making up my mind, the heavens opened again. I'm right under a ( Read more... )

for a while longer, at least. After a couple of warm days -- I was even able to open a window -- we're in for a chilly week with rain ( Read more... )

So, Wednesday was a beautiful day, at least in theory: sunny, high in the upper 60s, a bit of a breeze. I went to the Zoo -- along with the rest of metropolitan Chicago. It was -- well, a zoo. And chilly. I need to remember that the temperature readings are for points inland. I think the temperature in the Park might have broken 50, but with ( Read more... )