Under the Weather

Both literally & figuratively...

I woke up this morning with a scratchy, sore throat...thought it was due to painting the home office yesterday. Got dressed & went to work with the kiddos. Rained buckets on the way there & during the first 2 classes. Progressively felt worse as the morning went on, and after stopping at CVS for Vit C, I am now in bed. Trying to rest & watch mindless entertainment in the form of the ABC Soaps.

However, for the last 2 hours the local ABC station has been showing the weather radar. Seems as though there are tornadoes or possible tornadic in the surrounding viewing areas. I think it is interesting that they do all of these updates for the people in the affected areas but are the updates any good if they have lost power due to the associated storm? (That was a long, run-on, rambling sentence...good thing I want to be a science teacher;)) Wake County for the most part look s pretty clear on the radar.

I wish my class was tonight instead of tomorrow evening, because I did get into Intro to Weather & Climate. And, even though we've only had 2 classes, I totally love it!!! Our professor starts class by reviewing the local weather radars. Then during the course of the lecture, we get to see other cool pics of weather related stuff. The coolest pic we saw yesterday was a satellite photo of Florida & the Southeast. The only was you could tell it was Florida was b/c of the outline shape of the clouds...plus you could also see three cloud masses north of Florida that our instructor identified as probably being over North Carolina - stretching from maybe Cape Hatteras inland to the Triangle/Piedmont area. There were some other cloud formations in the picture as well as the atmosphere (which is so very thin!).