Daily Pattern: Meteorology

Topic: storm

For a short period of time, I wanted to be a meteorologist. Not because I wanted to chase tornadoes or anything like that (I had peers in grade school who thought that's what being a meteorologist meant), but because I think there's something about weather that it's own set of magic. It involves physics and chemistry and mixes those things up perfectly.

Daily Pattern : Grey Days

Topic : Storm

I think we've discussed this before? But I'm not really sure. I'm a huge fan of grey days. The kind of day when you can't see your shadow, where it feels like the lights have dimmed, and everything is quiet except for the sound of the rain. There's also a smell that comes with a storm. Do you know what I mean? It's pleasant. Sort of sharp. Maybe it's the smell of asphalt. Maybe it's the smell of the grime of the city being washed away.

Daily Pattern: The stormiest Planet

Ok, I have been an almost never contributor on these patterns, but I am on a mission, for better or for worse, to do all of them for a while. First up: storm. And you can't have a good storm without lots and lots of clouds*.



*This might not, strictly speaking, be true.

Daily Pattern: Fierce like Lightning

Topic: Storm

We get some pretty serious storms in Minneapolis. I love them but I guess the weather is a little less predictable other places around the country. It can go from sunny to rainy to massive hail to full-on tornado within an hour, and it's not particularly noteworthy.

I remember one day at a previous job, we had a design review in a top floor board room during a massive storm. The sky was a dark green and there were warnings of tornadoes. There were huge chunks of hail pelting the floor-to-ceiling windows but it was business as usual until one of the designers, who had just moved from NYC, interrupted everyone and shouted "DOES ANYONE ELSE SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE?"

He was terrified and wanted us all to go to the parking garage. When the meeting continued on as normal, he wasn't very happy.

Rain

Topic: storm

“Where I live there are no storms and floods. That's why "storm" for me is rain rain rain... especially when the rain comes for few days. This is when you wake up and fall asleep under the monotonous sound of rain, do not go out, and drink tea with chocolate chip cookies every 20 minutes. If the electricity is not working, the next day seems as though it has been raining for a week.”

-Ira