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Today is February 6, 2020 … and at 4:15 a.m. it was raining, temp was 64 degrees at the NWS station at the Curtis Brown airport.

Showers are likely today, possibly a thunderstorm after 4 p.m. High today near 76 with a south wind 13 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 39 mph Chance of rain is 90%.

Tonight, showers and thunderstorms before 4 a.m, then showers likely. Some storms could be severe, with damaging winds. Low around 55. Breezy, with a southwest wind 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph. Chance of rain is 100%, with new precipitation amounts between 1.5 inches and 2.5 inches total over the next few hours.

Actually, same type forecast Friday, but precipitation amounts less than a tenth of an inch.

Interesting how we hear a word first time in a while … like galoshes. Webster defines as protective overshoe … rubber or fabric. … May need galoshes today…

Another new or seldom used word is Wuhau, a city in China where the deadly virus is causing pain and death, actually spreading around the world. … Wuhau, China…

Have been planning for and putting off cleaning an area behind our house that I seldom do. … Weather has caused another delay … more planning … procrastinating.

Remember the old Johnny Nash song, “I Can See Clearly Now”, some we never forget…

“I think rain is as necessary to the mind as to vegetation. My very thoughts become thirsty, and crave the moisture.” John Burroughs

“If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer’s crop, who are we to say it shouldn’t rain?” Tom Barrett

“The rain is famous for falling on the just and the unjust alike, but if I had the management of such affairs I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust outdoors, I would drown him.” Mark Twain

“I always like walking in the rain,! so no one can see me crying.” Charlie Chaplin

robert g hester
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