If You Don't Like the Weather . . .

I use weather.com for all my forecast needs. So of course I noticed when they recently rolled out an exciting new feature. Hour-by-hour forecast not precise enough for you? Now you can see a fifteen-minute breakdown for the first four hours!

This handy feature gives me a new appreciation for the great variety in the weather of even one day. You can see this variety in the forecast, now more detailed than ever before, for the next twenty-four hours or so in my Seattle neighborhood:

Right now, at 10:45 p.m., it is cloudy. (Also dark, so you can't see the clouds that well, but it's nice to know they're there.) It will remain this way until 11:45, at which time we will have Few Snow Showers! But only for fifteen minutes: at midnight, the Few Snow Showers will turn into Light Snow. We get to enjoy the Light Snow for a full hour, but at 1:00 a.m. it will ease back into Few Snow Showers, followed by Snow at 1:15. If that's too much precipitation for you, don't worry: a mere forty-five minutes later, it will scale back into Light Snow again. You can enjoy the lightness of the snow all the way up to 5:00 a.m., at which time it will start to Snow. Hunker down until 6:00 a.m., when we can expect some Light Snow. This continues until noon, when it changes to Few Snow Showers, which will be followed by a Snow Shower at 3:00 p.m. Be prepared for Few Snow Showers at 6 p.m., continuing until 9 p.m.

At 9 p.m. it will be cloudy.