Crash! Boom! Bang!
May. 19th, 2005 01:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
akirluI 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.
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.
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