Valentine's Day and Weather

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!! I bet you are wondering how on earth am I going to connect Valentines Day and weather... Well, what if I told you that the things that you would usually buy on Valentines day are influenced by the weather.

Yep I said it, those flowers, wine and chocolate you buy around this time can either be abundant or scarce depending on the weather. I'm sure you can already say to yourself that flowers are outside so of course they are influenced by the weather. In fact, a rose bush will suffer damage if the temperature falls below 55 degrees or rises above 86 degrees. Good thing we have green houses!

Now what about that wine. Good wines and bad wines are all based on the type of weather that the vineyard had that year.

And chocolate, as many of you know, comes from the cocoa bean. I am not sure how many of you have been to Hershey, Pa and gone through the Chocolate World tour but a cocoa bean comes from a cacao pod which grows on a cacao tree. If you ever get a chance to visit Hershey take the tour, it's actually pretty neat and smells delightful!!

So when you are out buying Valentine's Day goodies, remember that weather had a part to play in what you are buying.

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