Wait 5 minutes, it will change.
That's a popular saying where I come from...lol
I live in what is called the "Sunshine State" but you wouldn't know it looking out my window at the moment. Don't get me wrong. we have plenty of days when it is just gorgeous here. the weather is about 80 degrees. humidity is in the 40 percentile and ocean is beautiful. But.... that is only during the fall and early spring months.
From June 1st to October 31st we are in our rainy season. Its also our hurricane season.
we have 3 types of rain storms...
1) your standard run of the mill pouring rain half the day, dark and cloudy kind of rain/thunderstorm.
2) strictly early morning or late afternoon "came out of nowhere" kind of rainstorm that lasts about 20 minutes and is gone. and...
3) the kind rain where you can actually see it pouring down rain on the other side of the street but your completely dry on your side of the street. its really cool to see. The first time I saw rain like that I immediately thought of the movie "The Truman Show" when Jim Carrey gets followed by that little rainstorm that moves with him for a couple of minutes before it starts raining everywhere.
In south Florida, there's no point in checking the weather because as you can see in the picture below... they predict that you will have an instance of rain as described above at one point or another. So... if by some fluke of Florida nature, it should happen not to rain, you can feel even better when you arrive home dry.
So... as you can see, it's going to be a wet week for me. now most days I luck out and manage to skirt around the rainstorms or wait just the few minutes for the weather to change a little bit and I avoid getting completely soaked.
Today was not that kind of day. I got to ride home in an all day thunderstorm. I got about 2 miles from work when it really started coming down on me and I ended up being completely soaked everywhere. and I mean everywhere. lol.
but something like that isn't without its benefits. I learned rather quickly that its actually quit liberating once you realize that it is impossible to get any wetter than you are right than.
This allows you to ride playfully through some of the worse possible curbside puddles of water because your socks and shoes are already full of water.
The left side of your body will be no wetter than your right side when that bus comes by and throws up a 4 foot wall of water on you as it passes.
And you may even find yourself laughing at the absurdity of taking a drink of water when you're stopped at the ride light because you realize that you're not sweating.. or dehydrated. lol.
So to bring this to a close...Today was actually one of the best rides home I've had in a while. It reminded me of when I was a child and would go out to play and get caught in the rain and just keep on playing. So the next time its raining, don't hang out inside waiting for the weather to clear up.
Go outside and be a kid again, even if its only for a few minutes.
But enough of my rambling for now...
Have a great day everybody.
Love you all. xxxxxxxxxxxx
DannyBoy.