Cosmic Impersonal Forces

If this were a good blog it would not concern itself with the weather. However, it is my blog.

The weather in Baltimore since late last fall has been unpredictable and terrible. We had the most consistently cold winter I can remember, and the most precipitation-prone. Spring didn't arrive in any meaningul way until the middle of April, which is uncommon. Also uncommon is the recent cool spell in Baltimore. Statistically speaking, the expected high temperature in Towson, not far from where I live, is 78-79 degrees F. For the past week or so, the temperature has been fairly steady between the lower 50s and the middle 60s. The magnitude of the diurnal range this would represent is very small, comparable to Seattle, perhaps. And we have been under a constant spell of rain.

So far this year, Baltimore has had 22 1/4 inches of precipitation, whereas the average ytd should be 16.81". And of that 5 1/2" extra, three have dropped in the month of May. May's normal mtd precipitation would be 3.4", and the actual sum is 6.4".

What's my point? It's been an absurd couple of months climatologically in and around Charm City, and I don't appreciate that. I'm kind of climate sensitive, as it goes, and this bad caricature of Seattle has got to stop.