NaBloPoMo 2020 The Weather in Reykjavík

 It's kind of a sure thing. If you say any of the following words around my mother:

- Nordic countries

- Rain, sleet, snow, hail

- the wearing of waterproof gear

- islands in the northern hemisphere

- Alice Deal from up the street's oldest son Alex's blue-eyed, blond haired very tall wife 

- A pale wintery sun

- rucksacks, kneesocks, compasses and survival rations

... If any topic comes up that, even in the most 5-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon way, has anything to do with anything above, my mother will yank out her iPhone and tell you the current weather in Reykjavik.

It's like a super power. She can do it so fast these days you barely have five or six seconds to prepare for what you know is coming.

After the breaking news weather report, Mom will confirm that it is always, every day of the year, 35 degrees and raining in Reyjavik. 

When she was there for a couple weeks last summer, it was 35 degrees and raining the entire time. Clearly this was traumatic. And so it seems she left with a hypothesis. Which she has subsequently proven visa vis a string of corroborating data points.

I have to admit, she may have a point. I feel somewhat well informed about the weather in Reykjavik given the frequency of the updates. And it always seems to be 35 degrees and raining in Reykjavik.