B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for December 16, 2018

Only his head and hands are cold?

Indigenous peoples summer…

This is more like the January thaw.

I would have thought he would have wanted something on his feet…

Oh look on the “bright side!”

You’ve just created and are the founding member of the “Polar Bear Club!”

Indian summer with snow and an ice covered pond? Must be during an ice age.

This is more like spring in central Ohio. We get swings every couple of days between 80 degrees and heavy snow. It eventually settles into summer weather and if we get a few days of springish temperatures we’re lucky.

Our temps have been below 25°F for the past month, but this weekend it’s been in the 40s. I asked my wife if this counts as Indian Summer. She said, yes – it’s all relative.

We have a short bout of global warming followed by a return to global cooling.

FLUMF! So fun to say!

having been living in South Texas I know not to store any clothes away because I never know what I may need for any paricular day (except for summer)….

ka-flumf

THBBBBTH!!!

Wikipedia seems to have it pretty close to right. The Encyclopedia Britannica says…

Indian summer, period of dry, unseasonably warm weather in late October or November in the central and eastern United States. The term originated in New England and probably arose from the Indians’ practice of gathering winter stores at this time. This autumn warm period also occurs in Europe, where in Britain it is called All-hallown summer or Old Wives’ summer. Indian summer may occur several times in some years and not at all in others; it often persists for a week or longer. The nights are cool and may bring frost, and the days have hazy skies and light winds. The lack of clouds causes the daytime hours to be quite pleasant as the air usually has a low relative humidity and the trees have their autumn foliage.

In the United States, an Indian summer period occurs when a cool, shallow polar air mass stagnates and becomes a deep, warm high-pressure centre. This centre is characterized by a strong low-level temperature inversion that produces a stable air stratification. As a result, vertical air motions are inhibited, and smoke and dust are concentrated near the ground, which accounts for the haziness.

No snow in the lowlands of So. Cal., but some in the mountains.

Lucky them getting a rare snow storm with artificial help in the Green House Earth they live in.

So BC is set in Michigan?

I don’t mind snow, but I do hate getting flumfed.