It’s been another rough weather week for our compatriots up in the northeast. This winter storm, Nemo, certainly fashioned itself after Captain Nemo the tough submarine captain far more than it resembled the cute, little, animated, Disney, clown fish. Unfortunate residents experienced high winds with gusts up to 80+ miles an hour, hundreds of thousands ended up without power, and people found themselves shoveling up to 40 inches of accumulated wet snow. (Hi, Tom and Helen in Hamden, CT.) A person might just find herself out on her veranda under clear skies and 80 degree temperatures feeling more than a little bit sorry for folks who have to live in such places.
Of course, as I have mentioned from time to time in the past, it can get pretty chilly in the dead of winter even here at 18 degrees north of the equator. I also realize that there are probably skeptics out there who don’t believe my reports of bone-chilling, tropical evenings. Well, thanks to the good folks at Lime (the telecommunications company previously known as Cable and Wireless) and their time and temperature display at the Valley roundabout, I now have proof.
Here’s what the display reported the other night at nearly midnight:
And for you persistent doubters who might simply think the thermometer is broken, here’s what it read at 1PM yesterday afternoon:
Brrrrrrr is right! And I can’t even find solace in claiming that it was a ‘dry cold’!
On the other hand, as I’ve taken to exclaiming in the face of any recent adversity, “No matter what, at least it ain’t snowing!”
Everybody, stay warm out there.
