We got the rain but escaped the severe storms Tue. The upper level system lifted a pretty good distance
north & northwest of the First Coast, so the prime mix of ingredients necessary for severe weather was from Georgia northward.
We get to enjoy a couple of pleasantly cool to mild days before the next storm system moves into the area
Thursday night-Friday with what should be a decent rain for most of the First Coast.
Mon. was "Read Across America Day". Read, read, read -- nothin' better! The National Education Association & their public relation's dep't. sent me some fun Dr. Seuss/weather trivia:
Reading forecast fun with Dr. Seuss. Can your audience identify the Dr. Seuss books which feature these weather phenomena?
a)
The sun did not shine.
It was too wet to play.
So we sat in the house
All that cold, cold wet day.
b)
And he sat there all night
Through a terrible storm
It poured and it lightninged!
It thundered! It rumbled!
c)
Won't look like rain.
Won't look like snow.
Won't look like fog.
That's all we know.
d)
"I know it is wet
And the sun is not sunny.
But we can have
Lots of good fun that is funny!”
e)
While these fleas flew,
Freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made
These three trees freeze.
f)
On the fifteenth of May,
In the Jungle of Nool
In the heat of the day,
In the cool of the pool,
Answers: a) The Cat in the Hat; b) Horton Hatches the Egg; c)
Bartholomew and the Oobleck; d) The Cat in the Hat; e) Fox in Socks; f)
Horton Hears a Who!