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Musings on a Hot Summer Sunday in North Carolina
Summertime, and the livin’ is sweaty…
Now, that’s a picture of a desert, which North Carolina certainly isn’t. We quite often punctuate a hot summer day with a brief thunder and lightning storm, which not only does NOT cool things off, it just adds to the humidity.
Other than the occasional storm (a downpour that lasts a few minutes and then moves on) I don’t know where the humidity comes from down here. I remember my son complaining of it when he moved down here over 20 years ago, and I didn’t question him about where the water was coming from.
In upstate New York, there was no doubt about where the humid summers came from. We were surrounded by lakes — big ones and small ones and everything in between.
The winds came over Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. If you are unfamiliar with the Great Lakes, take a look at a map of Northeastern US. The Great Lakes are called Great for a reason, and it’s not because they perform well. They are huge. I took a friend from Long Island who grew up with the Atlantic Ocean in her back yard to Lake Ontario. She was impressed. She said it was like being next to the ocean. Canada is over there, but, unlike Sarah Palin, you can’t see it from here.
