All In the Weather

Its interesting how weather is so important to us and our every day lives. On the news it generally gets a nice time slot and a good block of time to just discuss what we already know. How hot was it today? Did it rain or was it sunny? What's your guess for tomorrow? You can meet a stranger and easily hold a conversation of several minutes just discussing the weather. I say all this and I am sitting here in Florida and complaining about the cold weather. Did I mention it was 70 today? Someone up north could be excited because the weather for them just hit 35 and it is no longer freezing! Weather.
Two people can be standing right next to each other, one will find it very comfortable and the other can find it too chilly. I know this because this happens all the time with my wife and me. Weather. Man from the very beginning has tracked weather and its patterns. Early civilizations even worshiped it. Weather. How does one really measure weather. I've have seen all sorts of fancy weather devices. From remote sensors you place outside and read from the warmth of your home inside, to small wristwatches. From hundred thousand dollar satellite devices to radars with names like Doplar, fit to try and impress us. Of all the devices I ever saw the one the most accurately measured the weather was outside a building in Yellowstone, Montana. It had a red worn rock attached to a rope that was hanging from a post with a sign attached. It read something like this:

If the rock is hot its sunny
If the rock is wet its raining
If the rock is swinging its windy
If you can't see the rock its foggy
If the rock is white its snowing
If the rock is jumping up and down there is an earthquake
If the rock is missing there's a tornado

Simple yet accurate.
I guess my thoughts today have been on weather because we found ourselves hiding inside most of the day to get away from that cold wind.
Weather or not it will be any better tomorrow, we'll have to see. Weather or not we'll see the sun we'll have to see. Weather or not it will be warm enough to get in the water we'll have to wait. Hey, maybe that's how it got the name. Weather.
How's the weather where you're at today?