July 30, 2014. Western Head, N.S. The Weather.

Ken and I mostly ignore the weather, especially when traveling. Ken always studies the patterns from the satellites just to find out what to wear, but we seldom are heard complaining. Nova Scotia weather forecasts are almost always wrong. Yesterday was supposed to be raining all day while today was to be sunny. It turned out to be the opposite. Evidently, the problem is the ocean breezes impacting the winds from the land. Fog is most interesting. This morning the sky was clear so Mary and Clif and Gill went sailing. They were barely out of the river when the fog descended and they had to follow the direction of the waves to return to the dock. Of course, by now the air was still so sailing back took a long time. At our house the fog was thick almost all day but when I drove into town, the fog disappeared, only to returns when I drove down the hill to the causeway. The fog horn has been running for days. It has a reassuring sound. When we first moved here, folks told us not to worry about the weather right now, because soon it will change. And they were right. Today, for about ten minutes, it poured down rain and then it stopped and the sun came out for another ten minutes. But it did not last long enough to burn off the fog. Soon we had drizzle off and on all the rest of the day, always with fog. Some times you could not even see the surfers in our Bay. The weather here is never boring and it is never hot, even when the locals tell you it is hot. But it is always interesting.