DIARY
– YESTERDAY – It was a day. I started and finished Calvino’s Invisible Cities, which was great fun, (especially being able to rank the cities and decide which would be best to live in). I spent two hours at Tillie’s and later that night, Jess and I watched the O.C., which is in rare form again (they always miraculously pull their shit together right at the end of the season) and then went out to Junior’s for cheesecake. So: good day.
– WEATHER – One of the interesting things about working at Facts on File (two of my recent assignments have been weather-extensive) combined with posting about the weather daily on this blog is I’ve gradually accumulated a more substantial base of knowledge on how the weather works, inostensibly without having really earned it. I’m really starting to see these fronts and storm systems as an endless series of waves, crests and troughs rolling through space, compromised by lateral movement and each other.
Two waves are converging on each other over the country. The first is the low-pressue front that’s been stalled over the western midwest all week (just a couple-hundred miles west of Chicago, actually). The second is the low pressure system that has slowly been moving east from California. Today the latter will move out over Texas and interacts with the former as well as moist air rolling up from the Gulf. The upshot may be violent storms in Texas and Oklahoma. As far north as Iowa, there’s a real threat of flooding.
Meanwhile, the eastern midwest and East Coast should continue to enjoy pleasant weather (the East Coast may get some rain) as a result of the high pressure system pressed between the lows to the west and another out over the Atlantic.
– TIGERS – Tonight, vs. the Twins. At Comerica.
– APRIL – is international guitar month.
– TOMORROW – is Arbor Day.
– SUNDAY – is Beltane.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Today – Charles Cotton, Jan Oort, Tomorrow – Henri Poincaré, Duke Ellington, Jerry Seinfeld. Sunday – Jane Campion.
NATION OF THE WEEK
Zambia.
QUESTION OF THE DAY
Which European city do you belong in?
(Take the quiz here and/or supply your own answer).
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