Dear Tom Skilling
a mostly benevolent weather god
Dear Tom Skilling,
We none of us like to admit how much we rely on Doppler radar to get through our days.
Then it's gone and you realize you're an extension of your tools.
Someone told me you retired.
This is difficult to imagine.
I see you at your kitchen table, weather charts spread out over saucers and spoons.
Astrolabes and compasses, an isomometer someone at the station gave you as a novelty gift but which you are very seriously using to aid you with your home forecast.