Oh, What A Beautiful Day

Now that Mother Nature has taken a break from playing with hurricanes for a bit - hopefully, for a long bit, such as until next hurricane season in June 2006 - she's finally turned her attention to pipin' hot Texas (as weather.com put it yesterday).

After near-record temperatures in the upper 90s and low 100s for more than a week - including record highs on 22, 23 and 25 September and a near-record 104 yesterday - a cold front finally blew through last night. Aside from bringing much needed rain (although my boss complained that it rained for only about 4 minutes where she lives on the south edge of Arlington - to hear her tell it, there is some kind of barrier around her neighborhood, causing it to never rain by her house), it also dropped temperatures by 29 degrees, leaving us with a high today of 75 degrees.

It was so wonderful to wake up this morning at 5am and, instead of hearing "the current temperature is 80 degrees", hear a much more reasonable for late September "the current temperature is 66 degrees". Instead of being 10+ degrees above normal for this time of year (normal being 84 degrees today), we were at -9 degrees.

Now if Mother Nature could just do something about our -7.64 inches rain deficit....