We are on the cusp of November! Who can believe how fast this year has flown by? November heralds the onset of the Cape Doctor over the Peninsula when the southeaster blows (usually) at its fiercest and most unrelenting, with what is known as a 10-day blow. If traditional weather patterns are maintained, this will bring out the worst in everyone, as there is nothing like a strong southeaster to set the teeth on edge with grit swirling in mini tornadoes, litter flying like kites in the sky, skirts blowing over heads and, worst of all, people in shopping mall parking lots letting their car doors bang into the car next to them. Yes, we know who you are!
Accompanying this foul wind is the stripping of all the new young leaves from trees and shrubs, and the shrivelling of early blooms in salt-laden air. Lawns will brown and crisp despite valiant efforts to keep them damp and petunias will be ripped from the soil, their shallow roots unable to withstand the onslaught. Doors and windows will have to be kept closed to allow paintings to remain hanging on the walls and prevent hinges from being dislodged from doorposts.
But if we don't have the Cape Doctor, what will blow away the smog and pollution that otherwise covers our beautiful city? What will bring the right conditions for much-needed rain in the summer rainfall areas inland? How will we appreciate the generally temperate weather that this region experiences for much of the year if we don't have this extremely unpleasant wind to compare it with?
For everything there is a season. Let's see what November brings!
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