No puddles in New Jersey

Considering the type of weather New Jersey has been having, it is surprising that it isn't raining today, and that there isn't a puddle to be seen. This makes celebrating National Splash Your Friend in a Puddle Day a little difficult. Of course, such a celebration is pretty impractical in January in New Jersey, or most of the US. 

A quick check of the average January temperature map for the US shows that most of the country is usually a bit too chilly for enjoyable outdoor puddle splashing today. The very southernmost states may be warm enough, but the average rainfall amounts in much of that area don't bode well for the availability of puddles. We are pretty much left with some areas of Southern California,  Louisiana and Florida.

Of course, the truly best place for this holiday looks to be Hawaii. After all, even if the sun is shining there, and there isn't a puddle to be found, splashing a friend in the ocean could be a great substitute. In fact, I think that Hawaii should be the unofficial headquarters of National Splash Your Friend in a Puddle day from here on out.

Now, if we could just all arrange to be there!

National Splash Your Friend in a Puddle Day

I have become fascinated with this offbeat commemorative day. It is not for what it is; we have all kinds of crazy "national days" to recognize all sorts of events, activites and marketable products. No, what fascinates me is that whoever came up with this day placed it in early January, which is not a prime puddle splashing time of year. Not in this hemisphere anyway. It makes me wonder, what areas of the world are warm enough and wet enough for enjoyable puddle splashing in January? 

I'm off to do some research and will bring you the answer in my next post. In the meantime, get you rainboots ready, just in case.