The unseasonable and sudden warm weather is both pleasant and a little unsettling. In the Bay Area, we call this "earthquake weather". I don't get the migraines or irritability that people sometimes attribute to Chinooks in Fairbanks or Santa Anas in California, and I certainly don't believe in the bad superstitions that often swirl around them. But all the same, I watch the mercury climb and I do wonder.
Raymond Chandler wrote of the Santa Anas in his short story "Red Wind": "Those hot dry winds that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen."
Here is a photo of the Tanana today:
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I always thought it was the Barometric pressure changes that usually occompanies those weather changes more than the temp, that caused headaches and such... Just remember Global Warming is Inevitable and there's nothing we can do about it. Cheers :)
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