Must Have Been the Weather |
 Dave Thurlow, Host |
Hi, I'm Dave Thurlow from the Mount Washington Observatory and this is The Weather Notebook. Weather can have a huge impact on a person's emotions. Today, commentator David Clark remembers how his emotions were affected by the weather in the 9th grade:
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"The weather affects our lives more than we think. The scientists say there are vitamins in the rays of the sun, and this affects how we feel. A few winters ago, it was cloudy for 40 straight days. By the thirtieth day, everyone was acting like they'd lost their best friend. When the sun finally came out, the whole town was like a bunch of kids being let out for recess. Everyone went outside just to stand in the sun. There was joy and laughter everywhere. Were we so vitamin starved that a few moments of sunshine filled us all with enough Vitamin A to immediately eliminate the blues?
There's more to it than that. The weather is the spirit of the world. The spirit inside each of us responds in a sympathetic vibration to the larger spirit surrounding us. I remember a spring day twenty five years ago. My ninth grade class went to a large amusement park in Atlanta. Maybe it was the flowers blooming all over the park. But for some reason, the prettiest girl in the class began to end up in line next to me. We walked around the park together all day. Then, she held my hand all the way home on the chartered bus. My heart has never been the same since.
The scientists would say it was hormones, but my Mom said it was the weather. I'm inclined to think Mom was right."
David Clark is a commentator from Cochran, Georgia. The Weather Notebook's Senior Editor is Jay Allison and music is composed and performed by Georg Brandl. Thanks to Subaru, the beauty of all wheel drive, with major support provided by the National Science Foundation.
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Purchase David Clark's CD "Kindly Curious" 'Memories are made up of events and pictures of life preserved in stories. These stories tell us about life in a way that no book, photogragh, or movie ever can, for they allow us to involve our own imaginations in the creation of the story as we hear it.' -David Clark |
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