It has been raining again – this year, it made the IronMan pretty rough for people, I imagine – lightning bolts or heat and humidity? Not sure which is better.
We did not have our usual deal of going out and cheering on the folks – I’m not a lightning bolt sort of girl… But, I was with them in spirit, for sure – hoping that they weren’t hurt and that they were able to achieve their goals.
I saw the tail end of a “doco” that was talking about this place in Venezuela, South America that was picked-up on satellite with these unusually bright flashes – turns out it is intense storms caused by lots of unusual electrical activity – investigations generated an array of possible causes, including the possibility that gasses that come from bio-degradation of organic matter in Lake Maracaibo – in the region of the storm activity contain a kind of a cauldron of “bio-stew” – something that scientists have discussed at times as “primordial goo” – well, there ya go. It appears to be a laboratory – Mother Nature as a mad scientist of sorts.
Separate of that, it has been the warmest April on record. Those non-believers out there who insist that climate science is a bunch of bunk really are going to be struggling, as no matter what – things are getting warmer and the storms more frequent – with sound effects and vivid lightning coming with, at odd times of the year, even. After all, looking back on the holiday cards of your grandparents did you see tornadic thunderstorms on the backdrop behind the quaint houses and churches in those old scenes? I think not. Santa didn’t wear Hawaiian shirts, either. But he might in the future…
