I love to fish and will certainly take to it when I see them up there, but I also like to earn the spring. I like waiting for those first 60F days, then the hard S winds, maybe one last nasty nor'easter. It's like a tension and release thing. After a cold winter getting out on a warm day in April is like aaaahhhhhhhhh. It's orgasmic in an overall body kind of way. But after a wet noodle lukewarm winter this year, I just feel kind of off. It doesn't have that feel to it, and I am missing that right now. It's like oh yeah 60s again blah blah, 70, yeah but it's cooler at the beach, this sucks, it's only 62 today, it's cold. This must be what it's like to be superabound with nothing to do. Like yeah I have like 25 Rolex watches, but I bought another this morning and saw it was scratched so I just feel kind of blah today. Much different than if I was poor and someone gave me 26 Rolex watches and said the last one is scratched.
We had the Great Nor'easter of March 2012 today, relatively speaking. After a generally calm March, it was nice to have a day of blustery NE wind and drizzle for some energy in the air. Since the wind started from the SE last night, a cross-up, the surf and tide were pretty minor since the NE wind had to overcome the S.
There was some rain last night, however, most of the day has not been much more than a hard drizzle. Here is my theory . . . I don't know if anyone is noticing it but recently there has been a trend for it to rain at night and then turn to a much lighter rain or drizzle during the day. My theory is that, since weather systems have been weak recently, the atmosphere needs the coolness of night to produce rain since the temperature at night is closer to the dew point and condensation is more likely. Then when the morning comes, and remember it's always sunny above the clouds, the sun warms the air up there, dries it up, and you get a steady drizzle during the day.
The generally light rainfall recently has caused a degradation into short-term abnormal dryness in New Jersey. That is pretty remarkable considering that 2011 was our wettest year on record and now only three months after the New Year we are in a drought status. Connecticut was record wet last year too and now they are already in moderate drought.
Is that extreme weather? I don't think so. If it rains and rains and rains that sounds extremely boring. If it's sunny and sunny and sunny that also sounds extremely boring. But extremely boring weather can lead to climate extremes since the weather isn't supposed to be so extremely boring, maybe in a desert or at buoy 41101 off the Windward Islands, but not in New Jersey. It's like a bulimic. They do the same thing every day- food, food, food, and they get extremely fat. Then they diet- no food, no food, no food and get extremely skinny. Then you have some one who eats a little of this and a little of that, they take a walk once in while, they sit on the couch for a bit, and that person is always doing variety and they are a lot healthier.
For at least the next 10 days we have the weather forecast of a cool desert. Extremely boring. April showers bring May flowers? More like February sun brought May in March, now there's drizzle, and we'll soon be parched. I would not rule out the chance of some drizzle or a deluge of 4 inches of rain between today and the 9th, but I think it's a good idea to go ahead and water the March flowers.
I have my rods rigged up and ready to go . . . As soon as I walk over that dune and see fish I'll do it . . . Until then it's running and surfing and sleeping like a normal person . . .
