MAINE is a place of lakes and bays, hills and islands, weathered people who live in plain and weathered buildings; a place eroded to the bone, both hard and tender.
And given the unpredictability of island weather and the fact that while you're sweating now, chances are you'll be soaked at lunch, not a bad option.
The island weather, more extreme than in England, threatens to wash away the solid objects that are his touchstones: his clay pots, his table, his handmade gardening tools.
Spraying from the ground is scheduled from 10 tonight until 5 tomorrow morning for nonresidential areas -- mainly parks, cemeteries and golf courses -- in the northern part of the island, weather permitting.
Stormy island weather is incredible to watch, as long as you're safe.
The storm continued to move west and approached Johnston Island, though the island's weather did not deteriorate.
The island's weather has made beer the perennial top seller, with kaoliang wine hugely popular.
Patmos, one of the northernmost of the Dodecanese islands, is weathering the current storm because it's a special island.
For the employees at the only working hotel on the archipelago, the 22-room Myanmar Andaman Resort on Khayin Khwa Island, the weather, not security, is their main safety concern.
On the island, the weather they experienced approximated that of winter in the Rockies: midday temperatures into the mid-50s, down to single digits when the sun dipped behind the mountains.
On the night that the storm roared into the city, Dora B. Schriro, the correction commissioner, slept on a couch in her office at the Rikers Island jail, bracing for flooding and reassuring inmates and employees that the island would weather the storm.
