I currently live in a part of the United States that serves as the nation’s “icebox”; I live in the Upper Midwest. I’m here not because I want to be, but because I have a family member in need. So, I put up with it… and put up with it… and put up with it, for the sake of love.

So, too, do several other people I know and call “friends.”

Yesterday, while exiting my favorite natural foods coop, amid the coldest stretch of weather we’ve seen all winter, on my way to the dog park for yet more exposure to the arctic freeze, one such friend approached me. She asked if she could bend my ear for a bit. I, of course, said sure. That’s what life in a small town is all about, right?

After agreeing that we re-enter the coop, we took a seat at a cafe table and had a lengthy heart-to-heart, about life and wellbeing. Within that conversation, my friend brought up the subject of weather as it relates to adrenal health.

She said, “Nel, you know I have problems with the fatigue.”

I nodded.

“Well… does it get worse when it’s cold? I’m just exhausted today, and it’s always worse when the temperature drops so much.”

I went on to tell her that yes, indeed, cold weather can strain the adrenals. But it’s not just the cold that we need to be concerned about. Both “extreme” and “volatile” weather–as in the drastic and/or sudden rises, falls, and daily variations in temperature, barometer pressure, and precipitation–can also act as an external stressor to one’s adrenal glands.

As proof that both sides of the “extreme” pendulum can affect adrenals, I also have an acquaintance in Central Florida, one that has suffered from adrenal fatigue for years. She regularly complains of how drained she feels during the summer months down there; she has difficulty getting out of bed in the morning, her digestion goes south, she becomes emotional, she crashes hard in mid-afternoon, and so forth. And with the squelching heat and humidity, not to mention the nightly thunderstorms (pressure shifts), during Central Florida’s summer months, it’s no wonder.

So, yes, weather in general has an impact on adrenal fatigue.

Of course, the stronger your adrenals, the better equipped you are for any such weather.

The moral of this story? Well, if you’re adrenals are a bit weak, and you happen to be feeling tuckered out after a sizable weather shift, know this:

It’s not all in your head.

While planning to install your weather vane, wind vane, the question arises, should the weather vane be grounded? I have designed grounding systems for the petrochemical industry for close to 50 years, and have designed a few grounding and lightning protection systems during that time. A building site, whether it is a house, a garage, a barn, or whatever, may have several grounding systems. A primary system is the electrical safety ground system. This is the wire that connects a ground electrode, sometimes a water pipe, to the breaker panel and is routed to all the receptacles. The electrical safety ground insures a good ground connection which is required to trip the breaker in case of a short circuit. If you have a computer system, you may need to have a separate isolated ground system to prevent electronic noise through the ground system. The one we want to talk about now is the lightning protection system and your weather vane. An effective lightning protection system will have a series of lightning rods, properly spaced at the high points of the structure. The lightning rods will be connected to each other and to ground rods with copper or aluminum conductors. The lightning protection system helps drain the negative ions in the air as it moves across the lightning rods, decreasing the probability of a direct lightning strike. The negative ions build up as the air moves across the earth. This is similar to static electricity such as sliding your feet across the carpet and then touching something and drawing an arc, and as you know, lightning is more powerful.

In conclusion, it is my opinion that your weather vane should never be connected to your electrical safety ground or to your isolated computer ground. If you have a lightning protection system installed on your structure, then you should connect your weather vane to your system with an appropriate conductor. If you do not have a lightning protection system installed, then a ground connected to your weather vane is not needed and may even be damaging during a storm.

As we watch the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane season come to a close Mother Nature has taught us another lesson. Take nothing for granted and we are now listening loud and clear. Indeed, such extreme weather has pushed scientist to develop better systems to predict and monitor the weather. In doing so we have learned enough now to use this knowledge to control it.

Controlling the weather patterns will require some skill, some talent, large collected databases, supercomputer number crunching and lots of trial and error. We will also need to let lose of some of the current mathematics we use to track weather in trade for multi-stacked equational computational analysis or a different type of math based on a new type of science. Which may lead us to the grand unification we seek.

As scientists and researchers will learn there will be places where weather is easily studied and relatively easily controllable using very little energy and using the actual wind currents with minor changes in certain situations, which are made possible by the terrain itself.

We are so close to controlling the weather that we may in fact only have one or two more significant Hurricane Seasons to deal with, before we figure out how to stop these massive storms. Some are already discussing attacking them as they form or figuring out ways to steer them to uninhabited or low-density population shorelines to protect from major catastrophes like Super Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Think on this and the future of our civilization; A world safe from Hurricanes.

Weather stations that can be used by people at home are quite useful weather instruments to monitor one’s immediate environment. These tools have the ability to provide information that the weather man can’t. There are many different types of weather instruments that offer excellent utility and accurate information for a range of activities, including sports, research, professional photography, adventure travel, and agriculture etc. A weather station at your house can be quite useful especially on the months of fall and winter, during which time the weather can be quite unpredictable. Weather during summer is pretty much predictable, but winter months especially in colder regions of the United States of America and Canada can be quite dangerous.

Unfortunately, even if you buy one of the best brands of home weather stations, it’s the batteries that often pose a problem. The colder the weather, the worse their performance. When compared with car batteries, that give specific warnings regarding battery performance during various seasons, batteries used in these weather instruments are conspicuous due to lack of this information. Since batteries form an important part of the station system, it’s important to not just be able to choose the right battery but also understand the difference between the different types.

Alkaline Batteries: These batteries are good for weather station sensor located outside your home during mild summers to cold winters. However, as it gets colder, below freezing point, the chemicals in the battery start to have a problem and become weak and may stop working altogether. However, new alkaline batteries may still work up to 0 degree Celsius. If your battery is weak, bring it indoors to warm it up and use them again.

NiMh Rechargeable Batteries: If you stay in a really cold region where temperatures during winter months, often fall to below 0 degrees, its best to buy NiMh rechargeable batteries. These batteries work up to -10 degree C levels, however, you will have to recharge them on a more frequent basis to keep your weather station working.

Lithium AA Batteries: A new entrant in the market, these Lithium AA size batteries are excellent for cold weather. They work even in temperatures as low as -30 degrees. However, unlike NiMh cells, these batteries can’t be recharged and must not be used in the NiMh AA recharger.

In case you have a portable weather station that works with remote sensors and has a LCD display, it is possible that even when you use Li batteries the display tends to freeze below 0 degree. The reason for this is because LCDs are incapable of operation in very cold conditions. However, keep the weather meter inside exposing it to outside environment only when you need to check the weather and just trust the device! In any case, weather stations display the data on the screen indoors and will indicate a problem, if it does exist.

Perhaps you were not aware of the fact that seasonal changes coincide with changes in blood testosterone concentrations. If so, then you are not alone. A report that was recently published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism examined free and total testosterone, luteinizing hormone (LH), which is a hormone in the brain that stimulates the testes for testosterone secretion), and sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG), which is a protein that binds to estradiol, dihydrotestosterone and testosterone to carry it throughout your circulation; when its concentration is changed it significantly affects the ratio of estradiol in plasma to unbound (biologically active) testosterone. These effects were examined in 1,549 males residing in Norway.

The findings were very interesting. Total testosterone peaked in October and November. In February, there was a smaller peak. The lowest total T levels were in June. Free T was at its lowest level in August and peaked in December. The waist-to-hip ratio of the subjects following the same pattern that testosterone did. When T was at its lowest, they were at their highest. So during the colder winter months subjects were leaner. This was also when there were the least hours of sunlight. There were also very large hormone level variations (31 percent difference between the peak and low point).

Perhaps all of those Southern Californians should move to the Aleutian Islands. Then again, it might be an evolutionary adaptation for individuals living in areas that have extreme weather changes (for example, really bitter cold winters). At least the pattern is Norway is for testosterone to be at its highest levels during the winter months.

When it is 10 degrees outside, the idea of chilling in your lawn chair with your neighbors while you are grilling steaks doesn’t sound very appealing. So man has been equipped by evolution with raised testosterone levels so that you are more fully for those nice indoor activities spent with your girlfriend or wife. You have to admit that it’s a very enjoyable way to pass the time over those long and cold winter months.

It Bites To Get Old

Six young males (24 years old) and seven healthy middle-aged males (47 years old) had their testosterone levels measured at night to test whether or not there were any differences that related to age. The night hourly average testosterone level for the young men as 60.6 ng/ml, whereas for the middle-aged men it was 43.4 ng/ml. The middle-aged men had higher LH values also. The older guys also had 3.8 testosterone pulses a night compared to the young guys who averaged 6.7. So it looks like young guys have naturally high testosterone levels. I guess the middle-aged make more money. Maybe they can purchase some extra testosterone from their doctors.

Good Steroid

The steroid DHEA is produced inside the adrenal glands. Some evidence suggests that a 50 to milligram daily dose may improve overall feelings of well-being and increase muscle mass in middle-aged and older individuals. After using DHEA supplementation for five months, older males also show improved immune function. Although it was touted originally as an anti-obesity steroid, in humans it clearly isn’t an anti-obesity hormone.

Although most people in the country wouldn’t agree, we in Southern California have been having extreme weather conditions for us: rain and mudslides. You could almost say we’re so used to mild conditions that we become afraid of what others would call “real” weather-weather wimps. Being afraid, ashamed of, or embarrassed by your feelings is like being afraid of the weather, because emotions (tears, panic attacks, angry outbursts, withdrawal, depression, elation, lust, romantic excitement, euphoria) are the weather conditions of the inner self.

Certainly there are weather conditions that are fearsome, such as hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, exploding volcanoes and fierce fires, and we need to control these if we can, and protect ourselves from them. But, like the weather, most emotional climate conditions are pretty mild.

My clients have found it very helpful to use the metaphors of weather to understand how natural and normal all feelings are. Here are my thoughts on the basics of emotional weather. It’s a concept I’m just working out, so please share your ideas and reactions.

Sunshine

Your smile lights up your face the way the sun lights our day. Smiles, too can come from behind clouds or after emotional storms. The smile signals that all is well, pressure is equalized and the coast is clear to be out and open and have some fun.

Rain

Like rain, tears can be stormy or just a light sprinkle, and feel angry, cold, dreary and sad, or even come through the sunshine. Rain often follows a change of weather pressure, and tears can be the result of release of inner tension. People frequently cry from relief that they’ve been heard or that they can see a solution where there appeared to be a problem. Those who suffer from a trauma or a loss normally cry a little after the first shock of finding out, as the awful pressure of the news is absorbed and the grief sets in.

Rain first carries with it the dust suspended in the air, and then washes everything clean as it continues. Emotional rain, too, can first be painful, and then begin to bring release and clarity. A “good cry” is one that really lets go of the held feelings and continues until relief sets in.

Rainbows

When you allow the tears to flow until your natural smile returns, you will feel hopeful again-hope is the rainbow of our internal climate. Like a rainbow, hope doesn’t exist until there has been a disappointment, and the disappointment has been accepted completely enough to let the sun shine once more. That smile, coming thorough sadness, brings with it a renewed feeling of hope.

Storms

Sometimes reluctance to express unhappiness or discomfort builds pressure that eventually releases in a rush, like a storm. Violent storms shake things up, just as strong anger does. Anger that is allowed to get out of control is as destructive as a hurricane, but anger that is expressed in healthy ways can “clear the air” just as a storm does. The aftermath of a healthy, not too violent storm allows us to appreciate the pleasures of calmness.

Cloudiness and Fog

Emotionally, things are not always very clear. It’s normal to feel foggy and unsure, or depressed and dark from time to time. If you can remember it’s just your emotional climate, and explore it to discover the cause, the fog will lift, the clouds will part, it may rain or storm a little, but the sun will eventually come out again. Normal depression that is not allowed to take its natural course, not opened up to let the fresh air in, can turn into emotional smog, or internal pollution.

Smog

Emotional smog, like the weather kind, is just the normal cloudy/foggy conditions with man-made junk added. We call it clinical depression. Everyone is down from time to time, but those who attack themselves when down, or have others around who pollute their internal atmosphere with criticism or shaming, become smog-bound, and can’t clear up their internal atmosphere. Letting in the fresh air of interest and the warmth of emotional support allows the fog to lift, and the sun to come out again.

Internal Conditions

If you try paying the same amount of daily attention to your internal conditions as you probably do to the weather report, and begin to regard your feelings as naturally as weather, you’ll become much more emotionally comfortable. Like weather, your feelings are easier to accept and live with when you manage them, respond to them and don’t try to resist them or deny them. If you understand your feelings as weather, you can have many lovely inner days.

Your Sense of Emotion

Human attributes, we are taught, include five senses: sight, sound, taste, touch and smell. Only in science fiction do we read about a sixth sense, which is usually depicted as a psychic sense. If you think about it, however, your emotions are your real “sixth sense.” Just like your other five senses, your emotions register data about the external world. With your sight, your eyes take in data about colors, shapes and relative sizes of the things in the world around us. Touch tells us how things feel, how warm, cold, soft, hard, sharp or smooth they are.

Your emotions tell you what others’ feelings are. We can sense, in an almost psychic way, how someone feels at a distance, without being told. By comparing what our other senses tell us about others (smiles, frowns, tension, “prickly vibes,” relaxed breathing and an indescribable type of data we call empathy) with what we know about our own inner feelings, we draw conclusions about what other people are feeling. Without being told, we know when someone is angry, when someone has strong positive or negative feelings toward us, and when we are loved.

With conscientious practice, people can improve their use of senses, such as being a wine taster, reading braille, refining your sense of color as an artist, or learning to tell different fabrics by texture. Certain people, such as psychotherapists and actors, practice and refine emotions until they can sense very small changes. As a psychotherapist, I “read” my clients’ emotions and give them feedback to help them sort out emotional confusion. “You say you’re fine, but you appear to be angry,” I might say to someone who is disconnected from his feelings.

Sight is an external sense-we only see what’s outside us. Touch, however, is both internal and external. We can feel food go down our gullet, on occasion we can feel our own heartbeat, and we can feel muscle cramps and movement from inside the body. Emotions are a sense that is simultaneously internal and external. To our emotions, it’s as if there’s no limit to our bodies, and our skin is transparent. We feel our feelings on the inside, and yet they reach out and touch people and tell us what they’re feeling, too. It is a type of psychic sense, especially to people who develop it.

Just as your sight helps you navigate the roads, avoid obstacles, and choose the best route, your emotions are the sense that help you navigate the paths of relationships. If you are knowledgeable about your feelings, and your sensitivity to others’ feelings, you can be much more effective in all your relationships, maximizing your love, your intimacy, your emotional well-being, and your happiness.

Practicing Emotion

You can refine and sensitize yourself to your feelings by “tracking” what you are feeling on a daily basis: Just stop a few times each day and ask yourself, “What am I feeling right now?” Once you get comfortable with that, you can spend some time people watching, and guess what they might be feeling. You won’t know if you’ve guessed right unless you ask, but just practicing paying attention will sharpen your skills.

Before we can look into common weather patterns, it is important to first define some terms. In many cases, people may confuse climate with weather. In simple terms, climate is the general average atmospheric conditions in a certain region for a long period of time which is most commonly placed at about more or less 3 decades. Hence, the climate of a place remains relatively unchanged for years.

A place’s climate however does not imply that one region will be warm, cold, stormy or calm everyday for thirty years. There can be brief changes in atmospheric conditions in every region. This is what is known as the weather. When these brief changes are over, the atmosphere returns to more or less its average conditions.

Common weather patterns are directly related to climate. Some experts define climate as the general average weather pattern for a particular location. In other words a long term weather pattern can sometimes be understood as climate. Weather patterns can also be understood as the manner in which various types of weather are spread or distributed across the planet.

Weather patterns are important in forecasting. Sometimes, one is able to predict what the next day’s weather will be based on the concept of persistence. Today’s weather may repeat or persist until the following day. This is especially true in regions where the common weather patterns are usually consistent or unchanging atmospheric conditions. This is easily seen in warm regions where summers are consistently warm for several months.

Weather patterns are also important tools for yearly forecasts. One can reasonably assume that the weather in one particular month or season will be relatively the same in the same month or season in the following year. You will notice this by taking note of particular days and comparing them to the same days in the following year. This is basic layman’s forecasting for you and is especially useful if you want to plan certain events or occasions like trips or weddings.

Knowledge of common weather patterns is therefore supposed to be very useful. As some of us may have recently noticed though, weather patterns are not always what they used to be. All of a sudden, we experience extreme warmth or destructive hurricanes with little warning. Two types of unpredictable extreme weather conditions are known as El Nino and La Nina.

In El Nino, Pacific Ocean waters get warmer and can lead to high temperatures and rain. In La Nina, Pacific Ocean waters get colder. Depending on where you live, La Nina can lead to warmer or colder weather and dry conditions.

A number of climate and weather experts blame the changes in atmospheric conditions to global warming. Human greenhouse gas emissions may be the reason for our current inability to accurately predict weather patterns.

Here in the U.S., spring has finally arrived. If you’ve had a cat urine odor problem since last fall or winter, and thought you’d cleaned up each puddle thoroughly, you may be discovering otherwise now the heat and humidity have returned.

This article briefly describes the different components in cat urine, and why it smells so much worse in warmer weather. This article also discusses the most effective cleaning solution to get rid of the odor and stain permanently.

Cat urine stains are tough to get rid of because it has five different bacteria strains. Two of these are associated with the cat’s marking scent. The others are in the cat spray, urine, and uric acid.

The sticky, tacky part of cat urine is urea. The pigment is urochrome, and then there are the uric acid crystals, which look like salt.

The first two components clean up rather easily. It’s the uric acid with it’s crystals and salt that linger, causing the continuous cat urine odor. These crystals are insoluble, and bond tightly to anything they land on. This is why you can’t successfully eliminate cat urine odor with common household cleaners.

The crystals are reactivated with moisture. And this is why the cat urine smell is stronger in hot weather – the humidity in the air reacts with the crystals, and you once again smell the cat urine stain – even though you’ve cleaned and cleaned that particular spot.

In order to completely eliminate the smell and stain, the crystals have to be removed from the surface they’re sticking to. The only effective cleaning solution is a pet enzyme cleaner that’s specifically manufactured to attack the cat urine components.

These cleaners are special enzyme formulas that consume the bacterial components – which finally removes the smell and stain. Common household cleaners don’t contain enzymes, because most messes don’t have uric acid in them.

There are several reputable pet enzyme cleaners available at your local pet store. Read the instructions carefully and follow them completely for best results. If the stain is very old, it will take several applications to completely eradicate the stain and odor.

Arctic Warming & Climate Change = More Dangerous Hurricanes

Global warming weather effect… fact or fiction?

What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic. What does this mean to you? Researchers state that Hurricane Harvey which clobbered the entire state of Texas, is the type of extreme storm that we will see more of in a warming world. Epic rainfall rates and rising sea surges have led to catastrophic damage in the great state of Texas.

Using Models to investigate links between climate change and extreme weather

You never can identify a single cause for killer storms. Extreme events always bring multiple factors together at the same time. There is plenty of debate within the scientific community regarding climate change and extreme weather. But notable to point out is the fact that attribution of extreme weather on global warming is based on using models to attempt to recreate historic weather records.

A weather model, also known as numerical weather prediction, is a complex algorithm run by supercomputers to try to predict future weather. Different models and assumptions give different answers. But many see attribution as a start toward quantifying, for instance, the increased risk of extreme rainfall events along, for example, the Gulf Coast due to Arctic and otherwise global warming.

In other words, climate science will never be able to predict weather without errors, but by identifying the data relevant to our ever-crowded, polluted, windy and rainy planet-it’s up to us to take action and utilize the data to take heed of its insights. Will these extreme weather conditions worsen as the global climate change continues?

To what degree does climate change affect hurricanes?

Is it a little or a lot? The degree of affect climate change has on hurricanes is not settled. People naturally want to know “why” or “how” did a catastrophic storm land in their neighborhood. And if possible, people would like to know if there is anything that they can do to minimize future chances of occurrence.

This debate is not yet settled, but many prominent researchers have theories, which they are not hesitant to share with an inquisitive public. There is room for our knowledge to grow, and for new tools like weather attribution to help us manage future risks. What can be done in the future to address future risks? How does renewable energy impact the negative effects of global warming?

Benefits of Renewable Energy Use

Renewable energy-wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric, and biomass-provides substantial benefits for our climate, our health, and our economy. Human activity is overloading our atmosphere with carbon dioxide and other global warming emissions, which trap heat, steadily drive up the planet’s temperature, and create significant and harmful impacts on our health, our environment, and our climate.

Increasing the supply of renewable energy would allow us to replace carbon-intensive energy sources and significantly reduce U.S. global warming emissions, which leads to-among many-negative effects on our environment, such as extreme weather.

Climate change made Hurricane Harvey more dangerous

Its difficult to make a distinct connection between killer hurricanes and global warming, but there is a common school of thought who theorize that there is indeed a direct connection between past killer hurricanes Sandy and Harvey and climate change.

Charles H. Greune, a professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Cornell University, stated “What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic,” he said in a statement on Wednesday. “Just like Superstorm Sandy, Arctic warming likely played an important role in making Hurricane Harvey such an extreme killer storm.”

Greene took it a step further by identifying how climate change influenced both:

• the formation of the storm
• and the path it took

Two storms that resembled one another’s destructive path, Hurricanes Sandy and Harvey, both lingered in a similar way. Instead of veering out over the ocean as do most late-season hurricanes, these storms bee lined for majorly populated urban areas and then stalled, dumping trillions of gallons of water on the areas, resulting in tremendous property damage and loss of life.

Maddie Stone, who holds a Ph.D. in earth and environmental science, said climate change either did or “probably” made Harvey worse.

Factors that Make Hurricanes More Dangerous:

We know that warming sea surface and air temperatures affect storms and produce more extreme precipitation. Indeed, the heaviest downpours in the world have become more extreme.

Global warming factors that may affect hurricanes:

• Rapidly rising sea levels – The first global warming factor that may make hurricanes more dangerous is rapidly rising sea levels in the sea region’s, for example, of Texas and New Jersey, making the areas more likely to flood.
• Rising temperatures – The second factor is the rising temperatures in the region which results in more moisture in the atmosphere, bringing more rain to the regions.
• Global warming may have also contributed to:
  • a deep layer of warm water feeding the hurricane as it intensified near the coast
  • sub-tropical high pressure systems – This phenomena is thought to have possibly stalled extreme hurricanes near the coast with sub-tropical high pressure systems holding a weather system in the middle and causing its route to slow or stall

Kevin Trenberth, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, thinks Harvey was “a bit more intense, bigger, and longer lasting” than it would have been in the absence of climate change.

The New Norm, Killer Storms?

Many researchers agree that killer storms like Sandy and Harvey are the “new norm” as greenhouse gases increase sea levels, which leads to higher surges, which then leads to increased precipitation.

Hurricane Harvey and its remnants have quickly become one of the worst natural disasters in US history. The unprecedented duration and intensity of the storm has sparked a heated debate about how much climate change is to blame. The short answer is that we don’t really know, yet. But attempting to answer that question will help us to better prepare for the future.

Does it need to be a complete blizzard outside to wear your favorite fur? No way! With all this crazy winter weather hitting a good portion of the country, it’s a perfect time for breaking out the big and fluffy coat to keep your warm.

But what if you live in the more southern parts of the country like Texas or Arizona? Or what if you want to rock your coat in the spring or even summer months?

Fear not! Many fashion experts agree that luxurious furs are not just for those in colder states. We are breaking down when and how to wear fur even in the spring, summer, and warmer states.

How to Wear Fur in the Springtime

Fur means luxury no matter what the season. A growing trend in high fashion is incorporating furs and leathers in the new flowering season. Designers like Adrienne Landau love adding fur flourishes to the runway. Some of her tips include sticking with light to medium colors. Spring means the beginning of warmer temperatures so you fur should reflect this. Professionally store your full-length coats and wear lighter pieces.

What kinds of lighter pieces? “New” fur comes in all kinds of shapes and sizes. Both fur coats and jackets come in cropped or mid-waist lengths with varying degrees of density. Since it still can be chilly in the spring, remember you also add fur accessories, much like you would in the winter. Go with shrugs, stoles, or scarves.

If there is going to be a sudden cold snap with temperatures in the 40s and 50s, don’t be afraid to rock out your full fur. You’ll be stylishly warm while others gaze enviously upon you.

How to Wear Fur in the Summer

Fur and summer may seem like an oxymoron, but don’t shun this unlikely combo until you’ve tried. Fur can be added to your summer wardrobe in the form of fun accessories and add-on’s. Think of the luxury of fur combined with the fun of summer. Fur trimmed sweaters are available in a bright, cheery yellow with a fur collar.

Designers are adding trims to other clothing items like silk trousers or black fur with sheer tee shirts. As mixed materials become a fashion staple, expect to see fur added with traditional clothing pieces.

Think fur is limited to just clothing? Think again. Fur trimmed shoes are available in a variety of styles like pumps or sandals. Instead of being used for warmth, these additions on shoes are purely for fun, so there are some pretty wild styles out there.

If summers are not too hot in your region, don’t forget about a classic fur vest. One of the best ways to dress down a vest is to wear it with a more causal outfit like a tee shirt and jeans. You can also buy a causal leather jacket with fur trim around the collar or a light cardigan with fur lined pockets.

Now if you live in an area where summers are downright steamy and you love fur, purses are perfect for you. Bergdorf Goodman’s mini leather and fur shoulder bag is a fashionable, yet practical choice to show off your style. There also other accessories like pom poms and key chains.

How to Wear Fur Anytime

No matter where you’re wearing your fur, don’t be afraid to add new types of fur colors to your wardrobe. Instead of wearing fur in black or brown, try pastel colors or deep, vibrant colors. If you’re especially daring, patterns are also an option.

Don’t be afraid to experiment. Wear your fur how and where you want to. Confidence is the best accessory when wearing your fur anytime of the year.