‘There is a change in the air, I can feel it.” My father always said this to me while growing up. When he was much older, he repeated that phrase over and over but sometimes in a grumpier mood. Maybe the arthritis nagged at him somewhat.
He was usually right, a kind of sixth sense about weather. The rest of us I’m sure, could feel the stillness in the air Monday and perhaps will again today. We’ll have inversions with warmer temperatures in the mountains. Cooler and foggier nights in the valleys. Yep, the atmosphere is changing. I can feel it too.
The arrival of our first autumn rain enters our area Friday. Clouds will lower, the sun will cease its earlier October warmth and the winds will rise to guide in the rain. Rain and showers, rain and showers. Get used to that phrase as I will mention it often.
I remember years ago about this time, sitting on a bench along the Columbia River waterfront when this peculiar woman came and sat down at the other end of the bench. She told me the seasons were changing. The sun was shining but it was not hot. I could feel a sense of irritability in the air. Breezy, calm, no one noticed or cared at least not this day. Perhaps when one thinks about yet another change or maybe the days gone by, they will fret. It will turn cold; it will rain or maybe snow. Residing indoors near a warm fire will be utmost. Watch through your window, it will come, the night will last. She told me the seasons were changing. I told her, “Yeah, I know.”
We’ll dig into the details of our upcoming weather on the horizon in Thursday’s column.
