How the Weather Seems to Intensify Days Like This

Ever notice how the weather seems to intensify one's feelings on "major event" days like Monday and today? On Monday, commentators frequently pointed to the weather as if that somehow made the Marathon bombings that much harder to bear - as in "and it was such a beautiful day, too, with the temperature just perfect and everyone out and celebrating." And just now, as one powerful wind gust, set against an angry gray sky, swept all the lawn furniture off our porch, it just seemed . . . right. As if all of nature is in on the sadness, and the strange, surreal events unfolding in Boston at the moment. Intellectually, of course, I know one has nothing to do with the other. But it is, nevertheless, reassuring (or disquieting) to see one's feelings reflected (or contradicted) in the weather.