69 and cloudy

For a little while today, it was 69 and cloudy at the same time in Ferndale, WA, Amarillo, TX, and Paris, France. That is not significant to most people but it is to me. Why doesn't matter. But it gave me pleasure to know that the exact same weather experience was happening in all three places.

The climate of two of these three places is similar. The third is very, very different. Despite the nine hour longitude difference, the latitude of Ferndale and Paris are virtually the same so the weather is often similar

temperature-wise using adjusted time of day. But rarely is it similar at the exact same time. For example, the temperature at 9am in Ferndale is often similar to what the temperature was at 9am, nine hours earlier, in Paris. But because 9am in Ferndale is 6pm in Paris, the temperature is rarely the same in real time. And while both areas do have a lot of cloudiness and rain and are sometimes the same, they just as often are not. Amarillo, however, is much further south on the latitude scale and is very, very rarely the same temperature-wise in either real or adjusted time. Further, it gets very little rain, mostly sunshine. So, for all three cities to have the exact same temperature and weather conditions at the exact same real time, especially at the end of August, Amarillo's hottest month and the time when Paris and Ferndale begin their cool down going into autumn, is exceedingly rare. But today, at 9am/11am/6pm, it happened. And it pleased me. It made me feel a little giddy. And a little foolish. And I laughed at myself a bit.

But then I thought, why would I feel foolish about getting pleasure out of something silly? We get pleasure over silly things all the time! You know,

    a corny joke
            a picture of a unicorn
                    a cute puppy stumbling over his feet
                            skipping
                                    the feeling of bubbles in a soft drink
                                            playing with bubbles in the sun
                                                    rainbows

And really, aren't those the best kind of smiles? The silly ones over things that just make us feel good?

What silly thing over which you have control makes you smile? Do it! Go out and blow some bubbles and have a grin on me!