In which the mild is over.

I just saw a girlfriend and sat in my car chatting with her while I wolfed down an extremely late lunch of two crispy bean tacos and fresh-squeezed lemonade. We traded gossip. I had two bits of gossip, neither very juicy, and she didn’t really have any, but we still managed to solve the relationship problems of two of our friends in one fell swoop.

The point is not that we’re geniuses, which we are, but that in the time I sat there my back and ass became all damp and sweaty. Iowa’s sweet spring is over, and the muggy, hot, sticky, dank, sweaty season has begun.

Living in Iowa is all about bitchin’ about the weather.

In other news, there’s a freakin’ tornado watch for my county until ten o’clock tonight. Apparently the current weather closely resembles 1985’s shitty tornado season:

The storm that produced over 100 reports of severe weather yesterday will hit the Midwest this afternoon and evening with another round of severe weather. The situation is similar to the 1985 tornado outbreak where a closed low was diving southeast across the Great Lakes into a warm and humid air mass. This afternoon’s event is very similar in that the closed low over the northern Plains this morning will dive southeast across Minnesota and Iowa this afternoon. The air mass, while cloudy with left over showers this morning, will eventually turn out sunny with temperatures climbing into the 80s and dew points soaring into the 60s ahead of the cold front. The main threat area will be from southern Wisconsin through western Illinois into northern Missouri where supercell thunderstorms are forecast to develop late this afternoon. During the initial development stages of the storms and before the storms become a squall line, the supercells may produce quite a few tornadoes.

In other other news, if you use Firefox as your web browser, you should install Forecastfox because it not only displays the weather in the lower right-hand corner of your browser, but it notifies you whenever the NWS issues a watch or warning. Which is way cool.