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Opinion
Tropical weather pays the Northwest a visit
The Advocate
Hot, sticky, sweaty, eeeuuuww: four adjectives describing how I felt while driving home Monday from school.
In addition to the desire to take a shower running through my mind, I kept thinking to myself, "Isn't it September?"
'Why is it so hot and humid?' people are asking. According to Mark Nelson from Fox 12 News (I love that guy), the reason is due to southwest British Columbia getting hit with a warm and humid jet stream and rain. This means no rain for Oregon, but who needs rain when we can sweat enough to replenish the water supply because we are definitely getting the humidity.
Fox 12 also declared Monday that we matched Kona, Hawaii, for temperature and humidity level. I bet the people who "winter" in Hawaii are kicking themselves for spending all that dough when they could have just stayed home. Suckers.
Finally getting decent weather, even in September, isn't something to complain about when Oregonians get on average probably 20 days of warm weather per year. However, being in the beginning of fall (crisp wind, cooler temperatures, some rain), and then being thrown into 86 degrees with 76 percent humidity in a matter of one day has to create some climate shock.
For example, it seems like spiders are multiplying by the minute, and boy do they look healthy. Take a walk down through the tunnel entrance to the back parking lots on the east side of campus; there are some meaty little spiders down there. Excuse me while I calm down my tremors.
And what about the poor birds? They pack up their feathers and flock south for winter (which is sooner in Oregon). I can just imagine how confused they were when, as they started to leave, they had to do a 180-degree turn only to find their nests had been taken over by the squirrels already. And we all know they will have to do it again in a week because this "nice" weather won't stick around for long.
However, now that it's over, I guess I am thankful for having experienced it. At least we all had something to talk about other than the financial crisis of every state agency, department, school district, college and the unemployed in Oregon.
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