![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Fire Dragon vs. Water Dragon
Jun. 18th, 2012 04:44 pmWe've been, I won't call enjoying, but in a macho kind of way it's sort of like that, our annual spate of Dragon Weather: triple digits F, dry enough to crack your bones and your little dog's too, and blast-furnace winds that whirl upward into dust devils that can hit like small tornadoes.
It's the kind of weather that separates the snowbirds from the desert rats, and even the mad dogs and Englishmen hole up away from the noonday sun.
Last week around this time, the weathercritters declared solemnly that the dragon was here to stay. The tropics, which start to fire storms and brew rain along about the middle of June, were quiet. We might see our summer monsoon (when the water dragon and the fire dragon go to war, and it's fire and flood as far as the eye can see), but it might not start around the Fourth of July as it usually does.
Two days later, after a hurricane hit Acapulco, we had our first monsoon storm. Thunder, lightning, and haboob. Happy Caturday!
Now the fire is back. May hit 110 this week. But come the weekend, we'll see the rain.
Maybe.
In the meantime, there is Camp, and there has been yoga, and I RODE MY POOKA for the first time in eight months. He's seriously out of shape, and he's lost a lot of muscle mass (for the first time in his life, he looks little when I'm on him), but he's sound and ready to work. Which puts the whole world back into balance.
It's the kind of weather that separates the snowbirds from the desert rats, and even the mad dogs and Englishmen hole up away from the noonday sun.
Last week around this time, the weathercritters declared solemnly that the dragon was here to stay. The tropics, which start to fire storms and brew rain along about the middle of June, were quiet. We might see our summer monsoon (when the water dragon and the fire dragon go to war, and it's fire and flood as far as the eye can see), but it might not start around the Fourth of July as it usually does.
Two days later, after a hurricane hit Acapulco, we had our first monsoon storm. Thunder, lightning, and haboob. Happy Caturday!
Now the fire is back. May hit 110 this week. But come the weekend, we'll see the rain.
Maybe.
In the meantime, there is Camp, and there has been yoga, and I RODE MY POOKA for the first time in eight months. He's seriously out of shape, and he's lost a lot of muscle mass (for the first time in his life, he looks little when I'm on him), but he's sound and ready to work. Which puts the whole world back into balance.
