Trey Smith
If you've been a visitor to this blog for almost any length of time, then you're well aware that I live in an area that receives a boatload of rain each year. Last water year (water years run from October 1 - September 30) South Bend received over 130 inches of rain or about 50 inches above normal. Month after month after month we easily accumulated far more than the average.
This water year started out the same way and I figured we were on tap for another super wet year. But a funny thing has happened this month: someone turned off the spigot!
Historically, December is the wettest month here on the southwest Washington coast. On average, we receive nearly 13 inches of precipitation, almost all of it in the form of rain. As of today, we have recorded a meager 0.98 inches. That's over 6 inches below normal! Talking with some of the area's old-timers, no one can remember a December this dry to date.
I'm neither complaining nor rejoicing -- I'm just stating how it is. (There is always a chance the spigot will be turned back on at any moment and it is quite conceivable that we could make up for all the missed rain in the final 13 days of the month.)
But this situation does serve as a good reminder of yin and yang. There are various forces in the universe and they take turns as to which one will predominate. Most of the time, we experience yang weather here, but every now and then, yin makes an appearance.
Well, it's been raining like crazy the past week here, although that's typical for the period in Hawaii. Gorgeous day today, but they're predicting yet more hard rain. (Which is a good thing.)
ReplyDeleteJust for the record, yang weather is generally sunny; it's rainy stormy weather that is yin.