The BOM App

 How did we ever function without the BOM app? 

You wake in the morning. Do you dare set a toe out of bed without turning to your phone to check the weather? Do you really need to know that it's 8.2 degrees, but feels like 3.7? Will this impact your day? Is it good to find out the exact minute the sun peeks over the horizon? Or do you really need to check the radar to see if showers are coming your way? 

Maybe there are better indicators of the weather. Like how close the cat snuggles into you - or how fast he takes himself back to bed after breakfast. Maybe it's the number of expletives you utter as your bare foot reaches for the cold floorboards, or the minutes it takes to get under the shower, for the simple desire to get warm again once risign. 

In our need to control our surrounds, it seems the BOM app is the weather nerd's best friend and arch enemy. 

Looking now at the BOM (sorry, for those who aren't in the know, this is the Australian Bureau of Meteorology website) I watch as shower come up from the South, dumping the odd shower over the bay. There's been 0.2 mls of rain since 9 am. It's 13 degrees, but if feels like nine. If I want to go for a walk, I'll need to go to to gym, rather than chance a lap of the river - anyway, it's nice here with my ugg boots on and the heater running gently on the wall. 

I like knowing this information. 

Having a chat about this at meditation, we all have our little BOM app habits. One, on any given day, checks the 64 kilometre radius radar to see if she needs to take a brolly with her. Another likes to look at the apparent temperature, her judge as to whether she needs a jacket or not. The other in our group told of how she loves watching the eye of a cyclone as it hits land. I have to admit, I rather enjoy that too, always thankful I'm never near the eyes of those storms. 

But how did we ever cope without the BOM app? Life was very different without it - mind you, we've had it for over twenty years now. If you delve into the website, you can find all sorts of fun things. Not only is there information on previous cyclones, but it provides the names of the next cyclones which are coming through. It is good that they name cyclones after men and women now - they never used to. And they retire cyclone names once a big one hits - they will never have another Cyclone Tracy, Yasi or Larry again. Funny that. 

What did we do before we had the BOM app? 

Easy - we got cold, we got wet, we got hot, we got windblown - and there was nothing, but a vague weather report on the news, to forwarn us with any great accuracy. 

How lucky we are now. 

"You're just a big weather nerd, aren't you?" asked one of my breakfast companions this morning. 

"Yep."

"And how would youcope without the BOM app?"

"I have no idea."

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