We love to read about weather – everything from news reports
about the latest “Snowmageddon” (or “Snowpocalypse” if you prefer) to poetry about gentle breezes
and unbearable heat. Actually, to be perfectly honest, we rarely use
terminology like Snowmageddon or Snowpocalypse, you’ll be relieved to know. We
think there’s plenty of perfectly descriptive, plain English to describe an
extreme weather event, and we also know full well that as soon as you call
something “Snowpocalypse,” it’s quite likely to end up as a dusting of snow
that melts after half an hour.
We believe human activity is causing climate change.
We believe human activity is causing climate change.
We can thoroughly recount where we were when the Halloween
storm of 2011 hit – and how long we had no power. We also have, at our
fingertips, accounts of storms that hit without warning, microbursts that
destroyed “this house and that house, but missed ours” (or we could also be
quoting from the movie Twister right there), and drives home on a snowy New
England night when the only way to move forward was to put chains on our tires
and then open the door and drive by the barely visible yellow line down the
middle of the road.
You might not even know we fixate on weather, since we tend
to pass easily in social situations until weather comes up as a topic. Even
then, weather being such a popular New England conversation starter, you might
initially mistake us for someone with just average interest – that is, until
some 30 minutes later when you find yourself still talking about the
weather. We love regaling each other
with stories – about living through a tornado in Kansas, hurricane on Long
Island, a perfect storm (of sorts) off the Cape (and the boat ride that would
not end), blizzard in the Alps, or blinding heat in Thailand.
You will not hear us comment on how silly people are being
about the weather forecast. (Although we will comment on how funny people are
with the crazy milk and bread runs right before every storm – I mean, isn’t
everyone always prepared???)
We are amateur weather watchers, not meteorologists (although, like baseball fans everywhere, we are frequently compelled to second
guess the professionals). Ask us why we are so obsessed, and we will tell you
that the world around us is unpredictable, fierce, awesome, grand, terrible and
heart-achingly beautiful, occasionally all at the same time. Watching the
weather, like star gazing, mountain climbing, or riding the waves on the ocean,
connects us to something vast - the earth, the sky, the wind and the clouds.
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