It’s common to meet a friend or stranger who looks right at you and says, “Isn’t it nice we’re having weather?”
Unusual weather patterns get our attention. Summer should be hot and winter cold, while spring and fall are springboards. That’s what we’re accustomed to. Some weather cycles are occasionally cattywampus, but now changes are unexpected and significant on a regular basis.
Now we have heat domes or 26 inches of snow overnight in March, and nonstop sneezing in between.
Storms are predictable, but entire changes in patterns are noteworthy.
Yet, good things arrive. Historic rainfall on Australia’s east coast soaked the land and destroyed innumerable man-made structures. But it caused an environmental alignment where bees and regent honeyeaters got an abundance of eucalyptus tree blooms. Food!
Regent honeyeater birds are on the verge of extinction, but now they have plenty to eat and comfy places to lay eggs where nobody can slog through the mud to take their picture or capture them.
What a surprising officially-over winter.