In southeast Texas, 60 miles north of downtown Houston it was 66 today at the time I looked this afternoon.
The weather thingy I have gives me the readout from a unit on a table next to my chair. I don’t remember where I put the unit outside that speaks to this inside unit. At any rate, a part of this inside one is blinking with an arrow pointing to a cloud with rain coming out. That would be true since I just went to my mailbox in my car as it’s raining and got harder before I got back, in less than two minutes counting the time I got out of the car, got the mail, and go back in car and back. The mailboxes are just outside our gate and it takes about 20 seconds to get from my house to that gate. NOW, one can look at this thingy inside the house OR look out the door and the result is the same. Are we at the height of laziness to look at a thingy instead of look outside?
Where I come from in the South, people use a weather rock, it works just as good.
Some examples of the instructions for the weather rock include:
If the rock is wet, it’s raining.
If the rock is swinging, the wind is blowing.
If the rock casts a shadow, the sun is shining.
If the rock does not cast a shadow and is not wet, the sky is cloudy.
If the rock is not visible, it is foggy.
If the rock is white, it is snowing.
If the rock is coated with ice, there is a frost.
If the ice is thick, it’s a heavy frost.
If the rock is bouncing, there is an earthquake.
If the rock is under water, there is a flood.
If the rock is warm, it is sunny.
If the rock is missing, there was a tornado.
If the rock is wet and swinging violently, there is a hurricane.
If the rock has white splats on it, watch out for birds
LOL! My desk facing the window so I see everything that goes on on this side of the house. One year, a huge flood was headed our way so I tried to warn the neighors. I got eye rolls in return. Uh huh, some of their houses were flooded and we had someone’s kitchen cabinets on top of our deck. Even the old timers were perplexed how I knew about the flood. Well, duuuuuuuuuh, look up and pay attention!
That evening we had to call the sheriff’s dept. because they weren’t evicting people and they wrote us off. Their donuts had gotten soggy, yet. I was putting up pickles that night so between batches, loaded up the vehicles. I had a water level in mind of when to leave. The water hit the mark when the last batch came off the stove! Hubby just didn’t understand how important pickles were. We grabbed the kids and told the pets to jump in and called the grandparents to meet us on the way to the hills.