Greenpoint: Connected by the weather


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Article Audio:When we first moved up to these northern climes, my father-in-law would call every time he heard we were getting winter weather. Now that I’m as old as he was then, I better understand worrying about loved ones in weather. Did you know it’s 27-below in Caribou, Maine?”Nowadays it’s the internet and weather apps on our phones. Somehow I feel connected just knowing that the sun is shining in Brooklyn and Denver is having snow flurries. In the spring we share updates on the first songbirds to arrive, the state of daffodil blooms, the forsythia, the lilacs.