Monday
The weather version of the
is a low pressure center. A few important differences between the Sit-n-Spin and a low pressure sit and spin include:
- The Sit-n-Spin rotates clockwise and counterclockwise. A weather sit and spin only rotates counterclockwise.
- The Sit-n-Spin rotates small children. A weather sit and spin rotates clouds and rain.
Similarities:
- Both may induce vomiting.
- Both can sit – for days – in one place without being picked up, until someone/someOne decides to pick them and place them where they belong (the toy closet or garage; Atlantic Ocean).
- A mature, tropical sit and spin / low pressure system can become a hurricane which generates winds up to 200+ mph. My childhood friend Frankie Vanderburg could accomplish a similar feat. He could sit on that thing and generate centrifugal force sufficient to vaporize Star Wars figures (or at least warp them into the bushes). Fathers attempting to stop Frankie by stepping on that thing risked a torn meniscus or severed cruciate ligament. Their strategy was to wait him out until the bearings in the sit-n-spin vaporized, or he tired himself out. I don’t know what came of Frankie, but $5 says he’s piloting fighter jets somewhere.
For the last several days, this particular low pressure center has been cut off from the winds which would push it into the Atlantic Ocean. Yesterday it was around Memphis. Today it crawled to E MS and N AL, which is around where all the models think it’ll be tomorrow as it drifts further east and spins light rain showers into middle Tennessee. Here’s the NAM model, which is a fair representation of the rest of the models: read more
