Crash! Boom! Bang!

[akirlu]

I sometimes, mostly jokingly, refer to myself as a weather witch. It's a holdover from having noticed years ago that there seemed to be a pretty high correlation between my wishing for rain in a particular way, and rain arriving within a couple-few days. When living in Southern California, especially in summer, wishing up rain is a bit more impressive than here in the imperfect rain shadow of the Olympics. But even here the weather has been strangely compliant with my moods, having granted me an unaccountably sunny and warm spring when that perfectly fitted my temper. Ever since I moved up here, locals have been cooing about how unaccountably sunny the summers have been.

And as my faithful readers may have inferred, Sunday into Monday were emotionally tempestuous days for me, out of all custom and reason, really. And here it is, a couple-few days later, and Seattle has been seeing some of the most amazingly weird and un-Seattle-like weather it's had in some time. People keep wandering through the office muttering about it. It's East Coast weather, says one. It's Midwest weather, says another. Normal Seattle weather it is not. Normal Seattle rain is light and drizzly but steady, prone neither to much wind or much force. Yesterday and today it's been all over the map. It's pure drama. Sudden, abrupt squalls are followed by brief, dazzling sunbreaks. Thunder and lightning and tempestuous wind blow up out of nowhere, under dark lowering clouds that disperse and reappear, and then the rain comes driving down again, driving sideways and every which way in the most uncivil manner imaginable. Out of all custom and reason, really.

I know. There is no causation there. It's a charming coincidence, though, and I am in a mood to be charmed by it. Special Effects by God and all that.

Comments

[eleanor.livejournal.com]

Years ago, I was broken up with in a pretty horrible way by the person who used to be referred to as the great love as my life. We were on a business trip together, and I was not get out of his company for days. It was May, beautiful, cool sunny weather, no rain in the forecast. I turned to him and quietly told him just what I thought, and at that minute, the skies opened, the thunder was deafening, and the lights went out.

True story.

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

Well, I've actually enjoyed the weather show the last few days. It feels like Seattle weather to me beause it isn't humid.

Weather

[ladyjestocost.livejournal.com]

Um, er, um, don't suppose you'd consider a nice cuppa? or perhaps a Valium?

You see, my studio roof is leaking, and we really need to finish mowing the front lawn...

Re: Weather

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm in an increasingly good and cheery mood, now, in fact the emotional shoulder roll thing I sometimes do seems to be working out surprisingly well, but as I say, the weather tends to lag my input by a coupla-three days. But given that I only had two really bad days, if there were any connection, tomorrow should return you to regular Seattle weather programming. Of course, even if so, given mid-May in Seattle, that doesn't guarantee "no rain".

[kateyule.livejournal.com]

Ah, so you're the one!

Seriously, have some chocolate. The zone of on-again, off-again monsoon moments is reaching all the way to Portland.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Heh. Don't know my own strength, as Bullwinkle says.

Chocolate it is, then.