Wednesday, February 25/2026

Zoe down the road to the east of us posts that there’s lightning out at sea. Haven’t gone to look as we’re in the south side of the flat but we can certainly hear the thunder and it’s definitely raining. Didn’t rain in the daytime but was extremely windy. In fact several reports of water spouts, which are essentially sea based tornadoes. 

For some reason this winter seems to have been much windier than we’ve experienced in previous years. Do remember that we studied weather when I was in grade ten. Don’t remember anything I learned other than the names of the different shapes of clouds. So google and learn, or relearn a bit more re atmospheric pressure and the rotation of the earth. None of which seems to answer a more existential question - why, and why now, and why here. 

Leading perhaps to an existential answer. Why not? And to considerable gratitude for not living in the northeastern US, some bits of which got over three feet of snow in one dump this week.