What's up with the Weather?

 

The weather would be fine if she wasn’t so moody. When she’s happy, pleasant, sunny weather comes our way.  When she’s feeling sad, pouring rain comes down from the sky, drenching everything and even causing floods.  It’s when the weather is feeling mad that you really have to watch out!  This is when she sends windstorms, hurricanes and even tornadoes.

 It reminded me of a time a few years ago, on a Saturday, during the summer. The weather was bright and sunny with not a cloud in the sky. It was so inviting outside that my family, and I decided to drive a little way up a nearby mountain and go row boating on North Lake.

After renting the boats, we sat two in each one for a total of six of us in three boats and headed out to the lake. There is nothing more relaxing than gliding on the calm water of the lake and being out in nature.

We weren’t out on the lake for more than twenty minutes when we saw several black clouds in the sky quickly headed in our direction.  All of a sudden, we started feeling raindrops the size of quarters hitting us and everything around us.  The rain started coming down harder and now we could see lightning making its way toward the lake and us!

The owner of the row boating business yelled for us to come back in right away.  At the same time, I realized that the boats were made of metal. It was a race against the lightning. “Row, row as fast as you can!” I yelled loudly to whoever could hear me.

We all managed to reach the docks in time. None of us got struck by lightning but boy oh boy everyone and everything was sure flooded from the rain. My family couldn’t believe how suddenly the weather had changed.

That’s when I told them my theory about how moody the weather can be. She started out happy and we had beautiful weather for North Lake. Her mood quickly turned to being incredibly sad. That’s how we got flooded. Her mood was also becoming quite angry and that’s how we almost got struck by lightning. As we drove back to the house, my family seemed skeptical about the weather’s moodiness, but me? I was convinced of it after the volatile weather we experienced at North Lake.

Ellen