The 2nd Sunday Of 2014 Blows Warm In Texas While I Think About Lesser Fort Worth

Can you tell by looking past the metal spears which help make my security fence, at the cloth material stuck on top of poles, that the air is currently being rapidly moved at my location on the planet?

As in, a strong, warm wind is blowing in from the south.

Warm as in it is currently 70 degrees, heading for a high which is predicted to be hotter than 70.

Temperatures in the 70s are considered a HEAT wave back at my former location in the Great Pacific Northwest.

I rather enjoyed watching last night's Seattle Seahawk game, what with the wind gusts blowing rain horizontal. That was not your stereotypical Seattle rain.

Way back in the 1960s a guy named Emmett Watson, he being a beloved columnist with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Seattle Times, founded an organization called Lesser Seattle. Mr. Watson and others had been appalled at the influx of tourists that followed the success of the Seattle World's Fair, with most of those tourists visiting during summer, when the stereotypical rains do not fall, reporting back home that all they saw in Seattle was clear blue sky.

Members of Lesser Seattle were instructed to mention rain in any communication with people from other parts of the planet. Eventually Lesser Seattle failed, with modern day Seattle, in summer, being a crowded with tourists theme park.

So, last night's blustery telecast from Seattle would have made Emmett Watson very happy.

I wonder if someone like, well, let us use the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's Bud Kennedy, would ever come up with something called Lesser Fort Worth to discourage tourists from crowding Fort Worth?

What would Lesser Fort Worth tell people in other parts of the planet to make them think Fort Worth is not a place they would want to visit?

Spout off about Fort Worth's rain?

No? Fort Worth does not have a reputation for being a rainy city.

What does Fort Worth have a national, or international reputation for?

I'm waiting?

Any answers?

I hear crickets chirping.

World capital of eminent domain abuse?

I don't think that would scare off tourists.

World capital of urban natural gas drilling?

That might do it.

Rockin' the River Happy Hour Inner Tube Floats at an imaginary island in a polluted river?

Yes, that might scare away some tourists....

On The Breezy Tandy Hills Running Hot & Cold While My Nephew Gives Me Weather Reports From Washington

Today I decided to induce some rare endorphin production via aerobic stimulation. My choice of location to get stimulated was the Tandy Hills. The Tandy Hills is my closest location for easy aerobic stimulation.

I don't think I've previously shown you the Tandy Trail I'm showing you in today's picture. This is a steep trail that one comes to on the north side of Tandy Falls. The trail heads west to the top of the View Street Ridge.

The trail at this location is way steeper than the picture makes it look. It's a fast track to aerobic stimulation and those much needed endorphins.

The temperature was very schizophrenic on the Tandy Hills today.  Exiting my vehicle on top of Mount Tandy I was blown by a good breeze that had a bit of refreshing coolness in it. The breezeless gullies at the bottom of hills were pockets of heat. The hot pockets gave me some good steam bath action, while the breezy ridges cooled me back down.

If I recollect correctly some time ago some cranky person complained that all I talk about is the weather, thus making me extremely boring. Maybe the word was boorish. I don't remember.

So, I got email from my eldest nephew last night, he being Spencer Jack's dad. In this email my apparent weather fixation is mentioned....

FU Durango---Because I know you like to follow the weather: Seattle is going on 37 days with no rain (info from www.komonews.com/weather) ((they gauge the rainfall via a recording device at SeaTac airport))  Should no rain fall on this device prior to Sept. 12th, that will be 52 days, a Seattle all time record.  Possible drizzle expected tonight, however, if we make it through the evening dry, forecast is good for the next 7 plus days.   FNJason.

The FU in FU Durango are initials for Favorite Uncle. You might be able to figure out what the FN in FNJason are initials for.

Summer is a time of year that perplexes visitors to Seattle and Western Washington. The tourists come expecting rain and instead see nothing but clear sky.

I don't know if Lesser Seattle is still in operation. Lesser Seattle used to run a propaganda campaign where you never mentioned, via a letter, or on the phone, to an outsider, that the weather is being pleasant. You were supposed to always say it is raining. Most of the year this does not require lying. I think Lesser Seattle likely has given up the effort. Too many tourists come from all over the world, seeing clear skies and mountains.

I wonder why Fort Worth does not have a Lesser Fort Worth program to discourage visitors from visiting? The flood of tourists here gets really tiring. Particularly all the Canadians.