Today it is 65 degrees F in Oxford. With scattered showers you'd swear it was mid May and not January. If anyone ever doubted the global warning alarmists here's evidence that they could be right! So weird!
A tempest, unprecedented in its violence, unpredictable in its course, catastrophic in its immediate effects, unimaginably glorious in its ultimate consequences, is at present sweeping the face of the earth. Its driving power is remorselessly gaining in range and momentum. Its cleansing force, however much undetected, is increasing with every passing day. Humanity, gripped in the clutches of its devastating power, is smitten by the evidences of its resistless fury. It can neither perceive its origin, nor probe its significance, nor discern its outcome. Bewildered, agonized and helpless, it watches this great and mighty wind of God invading the remotest and fairest regions of the earth, rocking its foundations, deranging its equilibrium, sundering its nations, disrupting the homes of its peoples, wasting its cities, driving into exile its kings, pulling down its bulwarks, uprooting its institutions, dimming its light, and harrowing up the souls of its inhabitants.
(Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day is Come, p. vii)
Posted by Mendon at January 12, 2005 3:05 PMAs far as I can remember this 'warm spell' happens every January in Ohio. Don't worry, it'll snap back to cold just in time for Maman & Papa to arrive home. Don't be caught without a coat and then get sick [very common side effect of this warm spell business].
Posted by: Mara at January 13, 2005 4:43 AMIt is also pretty nice here too. Weatherpeople predicted a mild winter- thank goodness cause last winter was C-old.
Posted by: Rae at January 13, 2005 12:25 PMAnd actually, if you follow the ski season at all- which apparently I do? I read an article that that the ski season is shorter by a few days on either end because of rising temperatures.
Posted by: Rae at January 13, 2005 12:27 PMAs predicted, the weather was C-old by the time we got here! And I do mean C-old! 4-6 inches of new snow and cold winds. Temp about 12 F. Daddy and I both woke up about 3:30 and couldn't get back to sleep so we were wandering around the house (the heat hadn't kicked in yet because it was too early) wrapped in blankets. It felt just like . . . Mara's apartment in Haifa! As I sit here at the computer with the little ceramic heater blowing on my slippered feet.
Posted by: Maman at January 17, 2005 8:52 AM