Freakish weather
Well, the Farmer’s Almanac totally called it.
April 2008Avg. Temperature: 49° (2° above avg.) Apr. 10-18: T-storms, warm, then cool Apr. 19-22: Sunny, seasonable Apr. 23-26: Rain to snow,then sunny, cool Apr. 27-30: T-storms, warm |
May 2008Avg. Temperature: 58° (avg.) May. 7-10: Sunny, seasonable May. 11-14: Showers, seasonable May. 15-20: Showers, then sunny, cool May. 21-25: Showers, seasonable May. 26-31: Scattered t-storms, very warm |
In case I hadn’t mentioned it before, although I like to think of my exile as metaphysical rootlessness and metaphorical dislocation, it is geographically in Chicago, a city for whom “freakish” could serve as a year-round epithet for Lake Michigan’s erratic microclimate, and where a weekend at the end of April spent putting away your winter things inevitably leads into another bout of gusting winds, bone-chilling rain, and near-freezing temperatures.
I would just like a little more spring — brisk air, vivid, vibrant colors, and the slow easy segue into warmth. Spring is Persphone’s season, the time when she returns from the underworld and is reunited with her mother, sunlight, fresh air, and flowers. It is strangely, sadly fitting that my exile should be in a city that doesn’t really get much springtime.
