Weather Girl

So I have this weird thing about the weather. I always like to know what the weather is. I like to know what it currently is, what it will be tomorrow, and what experts are not so expertly predicting it will be in 10 days. I don’t know what it is, but I’m just fascinated by it. It is possible it is an ego thing. You see, when my husband walks in and says, “It’s really hot today,” I like to be able to respond with, “It sure is! It got up to 113 degrees today!” Or when a co-worker says, “I think I’m going to wash my car this weekend,” I can save them time and money by saying, “I wouldn’t do that if I were you. The 10 day forecast is predicting a 60% chance of rain on Thursday.”

Lately I’ve been working on my internal weather detecting gauge. I try to guess what the current temperature is and then I go to weather.com and see how accurate I am. I think if I was a super hero I would be Temperature Woman—the amazing woman who can accurately detect the current temperature within two tenths of a degree. Just imagine the costume I could have!

The unfortunate thing is that my current place of residence is inhibiting my superpower. For example, today I went to the pool. I was reading a great book and soaking up the sun; however, it was so HOT I thought I was going to die! My internal temperature gauge was telling me that the current temperature was equivalent to the surface of the sun. I was guessing that it was 11,000 ◦F. Okay, so in actuality it was only 103 today, but I was close. I guess I’ll have to keep working on that power. In the meantime, just keep me posted if you are thinking about washing your car.