My daughter’s wedding day is Saturday, June 27. She decided on an outdoor wedding, so I am naturally concerned about the weather that day. Will it rain? Will we swelter? The purpose of this post is to record the weather forecasts for June 27, on a daily basis leading up to the wedding, and compare them to what actually transpires that day here in Asheville. Are long-term forecasts worth their weight in pixels? Let’s find out.
Here is the series of forecasts for June 27 that have been posted on the weather.com site, starting June 14. I will update this table every day with the latest forecast, so keep checking this post. [Rest easy, my subscribers, you will not be notified of each update.] On June 28, the day after the wedding, I will post the actual high temperature (hopefully tolerable) and precipitation (hopefully none) that we experienced that day, and maybe make a comment or two about weather forecasting.
| June 14 | Thunderstorms likely | High 88 | Chance of rain 80% |
| June 15 | Scattered thunderstorms | High 91 | Chance of rain 40% |
| June 16 | Scattered showers and thunderstorms | High 91 | Chance of rain 40% |
| June 17 | Scattered thunderstorms | High 90 | Chance of rain 60% |
| June 18 | Mixed clouds and sun, scattered thunderstorms | High 89 | Chance of rain 60% |
| June 19 | Rain early, some sunshine later in the day | High 88 | Chance of rain 40% |
| June 20 | Scattered showers and thunderstorms | High 84 | Chance of rain 60% |
| June 21 | Variable clouds with scattered thunderstorms | High 83 | Chance of rain 60% |
| June 22 | Mixed clouds and sun, scattered thunderstorms | High 80 | Chance of rain 60% |
| June 23 | Mixed clouds and sun, scattered thunderstorms | High 79 | Chance of rain 60% |
| June 24 | Scattered showers and thunderstorms | High 85 | Chance of rain 50% |
| June 25 | Thunderstorms likely during the afternoon | High 81 | Chance of rain 80% |
| June 26 | Mainly cloudy in the afternoon, thunderstorms likely | High 80 | Chance of rain 80% |
Wish us luck!
I just watched a video, posted by one of my Facebook friends, of elephants sky-diving and giraffes walking a tightrope across a gorge. And as I write this, my wife is watching The Good Lie, a film by and featuring Reese Witherspoon, about the terror and hardship faced by refugees in Sudan and their difficulties here in America.
I think to myself: sky-diving elephants are absurd. Tightrope-walking giraffes are absurd. Leather-recliner partakers of human tragedy are also absurd.
And those people, the Sudanese refugees, still wanted to come to America.
Maybe I should not be surprised. The US of A has a good marketing department. When a person is reminded on television every day that one’s biggest concerns here in America are the phone you use, the watch you wear, the beer you drink and the team you worship, how can America not look like Paradise, when compared to who will kill me, what will sting me and where will my next taste of food and water come from?
In many ways, we do live in the United States of Absurdia. Some days, all I can manage to do is grasp my hands, post my blog and sip on my wine. My brother’s keeper indeed.