Yesterday morning, I spoke with Cliff Klehr, the Jordan area's weather observer for the National Weather Service in Chanhassen.

Our air conditioning has been working well since Don Hartmann & Co. came to fix it on the spur of the moment last month.

... looks like rain. The National Weather Service had forecasted 61 percent chance of rain for today, so I guess the weatherman isn't always wrong.

This just in: it is raining outside.

In light of the Christmas season, I’m trying to keep things positive, but it isn’t really working. I can say that this is the best Christmas rainstorm I’ve ever seen, but that isn’t really saying much, is it? In fact, what it says to me is that this weather is garbage, and there is no getting around that.