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Must have been the Weather
Thu Jun 19, 2003
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Hi, I'm Bryan Yeaton for The Weather Notebook. Weather can have a huge impact on a person's
emotions. Today, commentator David Clark shares a 9th grade memory:
"The weather affects our lives more than we think. Some 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 is produced in New
Hampshire by the Mount Washington Observatory. Thanks to Subaru.
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