DECEMBER: IN LIKE A LION AND OUT LIKE A LAMB

In January of 2007, my love muffin and I decided to take a cruise to Mexico. The ship set sail in Southern California. On the day we left Philadelphia it was was cold and rainy but as we landed in LA we were relieved to put on shorts and enjoy their warm weather. When we called home to brag, my mom informed me that the weather took a turn for the better and it was a balmy 70 degree in Philadelphia. I was awestruck. "In January, I stated." It then occur ed to me that in 2005 and 2006 we got some similar wacky weather in the region too. It then became clear to me that it was less of an oddity and now a trend.

I'm doing my best to keep my blogs as apolitical as possible but it has occurred to me that our planet is in great peril. I can echo the sentiments of the great environmentalists of our time and encourage you to utilize more alternative energies and help save the dying breed of polar bears in the Arctic but my blog is not a call to action. It is a call to thought. My thought is that we can no longer proceed a weather conversation by saying..."Can you believe the weather outside is____?"

In the third grade we were taught that "March is in like a lion and out like a lamb." I propose that this lesson shall now be changed to May is in like a lion and out like a lamb. Maybe even add this humdinger to your lesson plan, April SNOW showers bring May flowers.

Even as I write this blog its a crumby Friday weather in December. Its rainy, with sleet and the possibility of ice later in the day. Everyone is feeling like its going to be a long winter based on the weather of the last week or so. I don't feel the same way. We've had 70 degree days in January the last three years. Why should 2009 be any different? What inevitably happens is people think January sun means spring is around the corner. I say nonsense because for the last three years in a row I sat in Citizens Bank park on opening day of baseball in early April and I was freezing my tushy off. To add more validity to my argument of this evolving climate change, we should look no further then Las Vegas who for the first time got pounced with snow this week. I'm not even talking flurries, I'm speaking of accumulating snow in a desert.

I must mention one more thing about the weather. I believe the groundhog seeing his shadow in February is such a crock. I can wait to out that furry fraud in my blog in February. We have thousands of meteorologists across this great country with maps and computers trying to figure out what the hell is happening to our weather patterns and we have thousands of people flocking to some small Pennsylvania town putting their hopes into a rodent looking in a mirror....Please.

Here's my forecast: The climate is changing and if it stays on course, we can have
snow in June in Philadelphia within the next decade. Don't you think?