Well, the world has lost its mind but there is an upside: talking about the weather has never been so exciting! Hooray!!!
I mean, in the old days, the weather followed rules. There were seasons, there was consistency, reliability. But no longer! Now we get weather whiplash!
Case in point. Friday was frigid. It was in the 30s, but the ice-cold 30s.* Today, it was in the 40s, sunny, and basically felt like May used to. Weather whiplash.
Which made me think that we should rebrand climate change. I mean, it's not a bad moniker, but we could do better. So I came up with some suggestions:
- Weather whiplash: very accurate. And exhausting, literally, because I need my room to be a certain temperature to sleep well, and if the exterior temp is changing every 10 minutes, it's hard to know how many blankets I need and how warm my pjs are).
- Seasonal scramble: For reals. Winter, which used to be October to March, is now like, February? and maybe June?
- Meteorological mixup: It snowed in Florida, but not in Utah. I rest my case.
- Atmospheric aberrations: see all of the above.
Now along with all the exciting changes in the weather, you have some great new vocab to use to discuss. You're welcome!
*There are different kinds of 30s weather. If it is rainy 30s weather, that is very different from snowing 30s weather, which is also very different from "just snowed and now we gonna freeze this sucka like an iceberg."
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