This is what was happening here yesterday, Christmas Day: We had some wind gusts that exceeded 50 miles per hour and a drizzle that became a deluge. All the while, it was “hot,” reaching 57 degrees (F) at mid-day. Hark, the Climate Angels Cringe.
For those of you who thought that you saw a raccoon in a flying basket in the above image, you are not hallucinating – and the raccoon wasn’t the only thing in the basket when there was a lull in the wind:
That’s the Fuller family’s Christmas banner at their Naskeag Road driveway – Santa, the nature lover. (Brooklin, Maine)