Air Masses Ruin Spring Break

Spring Break has just begun. Spring Break is supposed to be sunny and warm. You're supposed to be able to lay out in the sun and drink fruity drinks and wear sun glasses. It's supposed to be like a mini-summer. Instead, my Spring Break is going to be cold and rainy. I'm going to be sitting inside all day and watching re-runs of "The Tudors." I could very easily end up turning the heater on. This is decidedly lame. This is because a storm is going to be rolling through. "But why is a storm going to be rolling through?", one might ask. Well, there is a simple geographic explanation for that. It is because an air mass from another region is going to be moving into Sacramento. An air mass takes on the general characteristics of the area the air mass is over. The longer an air mass is over a general area, the more like the climate of that general area the air mass becomes. For example, an air mass moving over Texas is going to become more warm and dry. An air mass moving over Hawaii is going to becomes more warm and moist. What would be nice is if the storm coming was a result of a warm front. A warm front would push over the cold air, the temperature would rise, and the result would be persistent rainfall, but it would be nice and warm outside. This is not the case this time. What is coming for Sacramento is a cold front. It will push up the warm air, the wind will pick up, it will cause a pressure increase, and rain just long and hard enough to completely screw up my Spring Break, and potentially bring thunder and lighting. Thanks, Geography.

Watch me talk about The Today Show and Geography in the same paragraph!!

So I was awake early enough the other day to watch The Today Show, which is weird because I'm seriously never up that early. But on this particular day, I was. After endless segments of cute banter between Matt Lauer and that chick who was on The View and poorly done segue ways from war coverage to a Bobby Flay cooking demo, they finally got to the entire reason I was watching in the first place: the weather. I needed to know what it was supposed to be like outside that day in order to decide on what shoes to wear. This got me thinking about Geography. Later. I honestly wasn't thinking about it at the time, but in retrospect, I'm connecting this situation to Geography. The point is, according to the Koppen Classification system, Sacramento is in a Mesothermal area. This means that the average temperature in a cool period is above 26.6 degrees Fahrenheit and during warm periods, the average temperature is above 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Also, according to an empirical classification system, Sacramento has a Mediterranean climate or a Dry Summer Subtropic, which makes a lot of sense, seeing as how we have pretty dry summers but it's humid sometimes, too. Anyway, the high that day ended up being 60 something. I wore flip flops. It was cold.