Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Today is a treadmill day

One thing that is good about running in Florida is that the weather is predictable about 99% of the time: it is sunny, humid, and hot, with the chance of an afternoon thunderstorm.  The same applies in the winter but with fewer thunderstorms and slightly less hot/humid.  However, when I woke up this morning, the skies were looking somewhat ominous.  I decided to check the weather to see if it made sense to go this morning or if I should wait until later -- actually, I wasn't really feeling like running, so part of this was simply me feeling lazy.  As I was doing that, it started pouring rain.  If you look at the radar image below (you can click on it to make it bigger), I live in the part marked Temple Terrace and that vast storm is moving toward me.  Actually, I think it just got here because it's been pouring for the past 10 minutes, accompanied by thunder and lightning.  I'm glad that I was not out running in this!

They are calling for rain and thunderstorms for the rest of the day.  I think I will opt for the treadmill instead.

Follow-up (1/2 hour later...I still would have been running): there was just a ground strike close by with thunder following almost immediately.  Yeah, definitely a treadmill day.


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