A Little Warmth

The Weather Alternative's forecast for Feb 13-15, 2008 was based on the Sun's trine to Mars. It read:

Forecast
Feb 13-15
A warm and dry air mass moves northward over Texas into the Plains.

The Accuweather map at left shows the warmth that will embrace the region today and tomorrow. It will be short lived however, but long enough to justify the long-range forecast. Afterwards a storm system will approach the area.

The National Weather Service in Oklahoma and Kansas reported:

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
NORMAN OK
610 AM CST WED FEB 13 2008

TEMPERATURES TODAY WILL REACH THE MID AND UPPER 60S ALONG WITH RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES FALLING TO 15 TO 20 PERCENT...AND SOUTH WINDS OF 15 TO 20 MPH.

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
DODGE CITY KS
250 AM CST WED FEB 13 2008

.STRONG SOUTH WINDS WILL DEVELOP DURING THE AFTERNOON. AS TEMPERATURES WARM...RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL ALSO TUMBLE.

February 2008 Weather Outlook

Introduction to the Weather Alternative

How Long-Range Forecasts Are Made

Ding Xiuling, a leader of China's Christian community, was imprisioned in October 1989.

Ding shared her faith with many of the prisoners, and they came to rely on her leadership. In one incident, which she described as a "miracle," she told the prisoners under her charge to take a break from working on a brick wall and sit down at a distance on the grass because it was such a pleasant day. Just then an explosion in a chemical factory next to the prison destroyed the wall where the prisoners had been working. The prison officials were frightened, but not a single prisoner was hurt. Ding recalled, "One of the officials grabbed my hand and said, 'Your God is truly a great god.'"