After a pleasant weekend in my area of the country, we may be faced with possibly the greatest summer weather threat this year yet. It seems that the polar vortex, which froze everyone back in the winter, is moving into the Midwest, and while it will stop short of reaching the East Coast, it will push a strong cold front into humid, unstable air, triggering thunderstorms that could be - uh, more like will be - severe: drenching rain, mile-a-minute (60 mph) wind gusts, hailstones the size of baseballs, trees in living rooms, 3-to-6-day blackouts . . . the works. To say that the weather will be bad and leave it at that would be like saying Scarlett Johansson has pleasant features.
You may think I'm exaggerating. But the weather services have been pretty consistent in predicting the end of the world early this week, with all of it starting tomorrow. But by Wednesday, it will cool and pleasant. So what if a tree totals your car by landing on your garage where you thought the VW would be safe? At least it'll be nice out! Yeah, yeah, and you still have your health.
Okay, so there's a widespread threat of severe thunderstorms for the Northeast. That's not to say that every thunderstorm out there will be severe, or that severe storms will affect everyone. But the chance of getting such a storm is very, very good. The forecasters are using words like "significant," "heavy," and "strong" in addition to "severe," and as I always say, those are adjectives you don't want to hear in a weather report. I am obviously concerned to the point of being scared of losing power, as I should be.
I'll play it by ear. In the meantime, keep your eye on this blog, I may be around.
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