Dear Lorraine
I thought back over the years I went to school and as you can well imagine
I can remember many of the rainy days that I particularly enjoyed wearing favorite
raingear.
Then I decided to do some research to see if I could chart out each of the years
I was in school to determine when I was likely to be wearing a raincoat, how
hard it rained that day, and whether the precipitation was cold or sleety, steamy
and humid, a straight down soaking rain, or a wind-driven downpour.
I came across the website: www.wunderground.com which provided me with all the
historical information that I needed. I looked up the weather records for Newark,
New Jersey which was the location nearest to me and began to chart out the weather
information for each day there was precipitation in the years 1968 to 1981 which
would have corresponded to kindergarten through twelth grade.
Looking back, I remembered many, if not most of the days, where it had rained.
The days when, in all probability, I would have definitely been wearing a raincoat
I marked with a star.
Particularly during my early elementary years, I felt I never wore my beloved
yellow slicker with the matching "helmet hood" often enough. I was
envious of my schoolmates when I saw them wearing their raincoats when I would
have been wearing a winter parka or some other jacket.
Looking back on the "serious raincoat days", I now see that I was
likely to be in my slicker whenever I really needed it.
| The Chart |
The chart shows which school years were very rainy and just how
much of the time you would have needed to wear your raincoat to school which
in my locale would have averaged one out of every five days assuming a 180 day
school year. It shows weeks that highlighted very heavy rains or those days
which provided the gift of sheeting soaking rain after an extended period of
good weather. Certainly those mornings where you would have awakened to an all-day
downpour would most likely send mothers to their closets pulling rubber coats,
raincoats, ponchos, hoods, and galoshes, decking out their young charges in
as much raingear as they could find, dressing them for head to toe in the hope
of keeping their boys and girls dry. The parade of students attired in all manner
of raingear on such days was an awesome sight indeed.
So here is an chart as to how often a student in New Jersey would have needed
to wear his or her raincoat to school, to church, to deliver newspapers before
or after school, or to go to a fall football game. I know that many will be
interested in the information the chart provides and how essential a good raincoat
is in anyone's wardrobe.
Warmest regards,
Joe
Dear Joe
I'm not sure I understand what all of it means, but for me that puts it on all fours with Einstein's theory of relativity.
Thank you very much!
Lorraine
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