It was a great honor to welcome our newest nephew into the world when Benjamin Kaelin Turner was born to my brother Allen and his wife, Tanya. As typical for Allen and Tanya’s children, Benjamin was born while we were on vacation. So we didn’t get to meet him until we returned, at which point he already weighed 205 pounds and had a mean fadeaway jumper. Dang, but Turner kids grow up fast.
Benjamin is almost certainly the last Turner niece or nephew we’ll have. Now that makes me feel old.
Kelly and I typically don’t splurge on stuff. We’ve got a modest house and reliable cars and generally spend money wisely. One luxury we do enjoy, however, is travel. I’d live in a shoebox if it meant I could see new places (and I did just that when I called the USS Elliot home for three years).
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Time to reset the counters on MT.Net’s weather station. Here are the records for the year:
Highest temperature: 111.9 F on August 9th, 12:54 PM
Lowest temperature: 16.9 F on February 6th, 6:45 AM
Lowest humidity: 10% on March 3rd, 6 PM
Highest dew point: 86 F on July 11th, 4:03 PM
Highest wind gust: SSW at 15.4 MPH on December 23rd, 1:09 PM (wow, that’s recent)
Lowest wind chill: -9 F on January 24th, 6:09 PM
Total rainfall: 31.38 inches
No review of 2007 could go without mention of the extreme weather Raleigh experienced this year. It was an extremely dry year thanks to a Bermuda high pressure system that baked and dried Raleigh out. This year’s heat set a record with the most days with temperatures above 90 degrees F. November was Raleigh’s driest November on record, and August was Raleigh’s hottest month ever recorded.
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Today is the first day of 2008. It promises to be a very interesting year!
May everyone enjoy a safe, peaceful, and prosperous new year!
