This is how you walk in the rain.

I love watching people without umbrellas walk in the pouring rain. They're typically hunched over, eyes squinting in pain, face in a snarl. They look like they're being tortured.

It's just rain! I'm amazed that rain can do that to people. Almost everyone hunches. I tried walking in the rain today and noticed that I too look like I'm being tortured to death. The hunching helps me prevent the rain from hitting my face.

But - rain in the face feels good. I tried standing up straight and it certainly began splashing my face. It was a little cold, but not uncomfortably so. As soon as I came inside, the rain dried. My clothes were a little wet but they dried too.

Walking in the rain isn't so bad - as long as it's not freezing outside. Next time it's raining I'm going to try smiling and looking totally normal. No running, grimacing or hunching of the shoulders.

The weather guy on the local news is always the "goofy" one.

I've noticed that usually the weather guy on the local news is kind of the goofy, lovable guy that everyone makes fun of. The other newscasters make jokes about him and he just laughs like a good sport.

Often they wear Hawaiian t-shirts or dress up for Halloween. They also go WAY off tangent and talk about other stuff besides the weather because - frankly - the weather is boring.

In other words, the weather guy is the LEAST boring member of a newscast. Yet he does the most boring thing. Interesting.

Are the weather guys on the local news actually trained meteorologists? I think some of them are. The news promo brags about it like "And now the weather with meteorologist Josh Smith."

But I would think most of them are not. I'd think they would just google the weather before hand and then come on and tell you what they just googled.

Sometimes they might make their own bold prediction like, "They're calling for rain all night but I think it will stop raining in a few hours!"

They always seem surprised the next day when it snowed and they didn't call it. "Wow, we got that surprised snow fall last night!" You would think after years of reporting the weather, they wouldn't be surprised when the weather changes unpredictably.

I think it would be such an awesomely easy job to be a weatherman in Vegas. Or any desert city. "Today is going to be hot and sunny. Tomorrow, hot and sunny. Basically, all summer hot and sunny."

But very dull. Do those places even need weathermen?

I’m often “freezing” in the summer.

Another scorcher today.

Yesterday’s post made me think about how we often experience intense cold in the summer months, as opposed to the winter. I’m thinking about suffering harsh air conditioning or jumping into a cold lake or getting an ice cream headache.
These things generally don’t happen in the winter. From November to March we experience a slight, general coldness as we shuffle from one heated environment to the next. But we don’t get that intense cold like we do in the summer.

By the way, we hear a lot in the media about how air conditioning is bad because it takes up extra energy and contributes to global warming. I’m no expert about how heating and air conditioning work – but isn’t lowering the temperature by a few degrees more energy efficient than heating a house by 25 degrees?

In the winter we heat our homes between 15 and 30 degrees, sometimes more. Surely that takes a lot more energy than cooling. Yet we never hear about how heating our homes is bad for the environment. Perhaps because cooling our homes and using air conditioning is a luxury. We don’t need to do it. Heating our homes is a necessity.

But then you can argue that people shouldn’t live in places like Canada, with their cold climates. It’s bad for the environment. People in colder climates waste too much energy changing the environment by heating it. We should all move to Hawaii.

I love the feeling of air condition blasting on me even though it can be painfully cold.

As a kid I remember my Dad blasting the air condition in the car. I remember shivering in the front seat it was so cold. Now, as an adult, I blast air condition. I guess I crave that same feeling as a kid.

I like being uncomfortably cold, especially on a super hot day (and the summer has been hot – today was 37 degrees). Because I know when I step outside, into the heat, I’ll love the feeling of the contrast – the icy cold air, clashing with the hot, dry air. I’ll say, “Ah the heat. Man it feels good…” and sort of close my eyes and sway on my feet.

Without the cold air conditioning, I’d just open the door and say, “Oh man. This sucks. I’m dying here.”