A Year of Weather
*Published daily in 2011
January
1/1 some weather we’re having
1/2 visibility low
1/3 expect rapid fluctuations
1/4 partly cloudy with a chance of sun
1/5 partly sunny with a chance of clouds
1/6 clear
1/7 steady
1/8 watch
1/9 warning
1/10 advisory
1/11 alert
1/12 flurry
1/13 flakes
1/14 rime
1/15 snow day
1/16 wintry mix
1/17 fine particles
1/18 eddies
1/19 high pressure
1/20 turbulence
1/21 tempest
1/22 maelstrom
1/23 still
1/24 thaw
1/25 dense fog
1/26 local
1/27 scattered
1/28 50% chance of precipitation
1/29 100% chance of weather
1/30 100% chance of 50% chances
1/31 record set
February
2/1 it’s dreamy weather we’re on
you waved your crooked wand
~ Tom Waits, “Alice”
2/2 this strange old sunshine beats me senseless
~ Kristin Hersh, “A Cleaner Light”
2/3 bright and hollow sky
over the city’s ripped backsides
~ Iggy Pop, “The Passenger”
2/4 cloud shadow on the mountain
cloud shadow on the plains
~ Wolf Parade, “Cloud Shadow on the Mountain”
2/5 sky was a bread roll
soaking in a milk-bowl
~ Joanna Newsom, “Only Skin”
2/6 the rain falls hard on a humdrum town
~ The Smiths, “William, It Was Really Nothing”
2/7 the clouds come round again
nothing’s changed
~ Slowdive, “Country Rain”
2/8 sky bends
the moon’s dress slung low
slung low
~ TV on the Radio, “Stork & Owl”
2/9 can’t you see the poison moon?
it’s calling to you
~ Mary Timony, “Poison Moon”
2/10 she said: my sails are flapping in the wind
~ Sunset Rubdown, “The Taming of the Hands that Came Back to Life”
2/11 returned to sister winter
~ Sufjan Stevens, “Sister Winter”
2/12 all the girls here are freezing cold
~ Tori Amos, “Cloud on My Tongue”
2/13 the wrath has finally taken form
~ Joni Mitchell, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”
2/14 oh such a perfect day
you just keep me hanging on
~ Lou Reed, “Perfect Day”
2/15 same as it ever was
~ Talking Heads, “Once in a Lifetime”
2/16 no alarms and no surprises
~ Radiohead, “No Surprises”
2/17 an indisguisable shade of twilight
~ Gillian Welch, “I Dream a Highway”
2/18 the moon is a lightbulb breaking
~ Elliott Smith, “St. Ides Heaven”
2/19 fluorescent and starry
~ R.E.M., “E-Bow the Letter”
2/20 ready to shape the scheme of things
~ David Bowie, “Word on a Wing”
2/21 the great winds of the planet spiral in
~ John Cale & Brian Eno, “Spinning Away”
2/22 I sense you in the trees
surrounded everyday
~ A Place to Bury Strangers, “The Falling Sun”
2/23 the sky darkened on time
~ Elvis Costello, “All This Useless Beauty”
2/24 daylight licked me into shape
~ The Cure, “Just Like Heaven”
2/25 don’t let the skyline fool you
~ Matt Duncan, “Beacon”
2/26 blue you radiant blue
~ Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, “In this Home on Ice”
2/27 not forever
just for now
~ Uncle Tupelo, “Whiskey Bottle”
2/28 all the clouds turn to words
~ Brian Eno, “Sky Saw”
March
3/1 Winds!
lean, serious as a virgin,
seeking, seeking the flowers of March
~ William Carlos Williams, “March”
3/2 We’re strangers, spring wind and I.
Why is it here, slipping inside my gauze
bed-curtains?
~ Li Bai, “Spring Thoughts” (trans: David Hinton)
3/3 And why is the sky dressed
so early in its mists?
~ Pablo Neruda, “Book of Questions, LVIII” (trans: William O’Daly)
3/4 In spring rain
a pretty girl
yawning
~ Kobayashi Issa, “In spring rain” (trans: Robert Hass)
3/5 the dull thud of doom
~ Maurice Manning, “Moment of Self-Effacement”
3/6 The wild and wavy event
Now chintz at the window
~ Lorine Niedecker, “Untitled (The wild and wavy event)”
3/7 daylight lays its sameness on the wall
~ Sylvia Plath, “The Stones”
3/8 make room
for another experiment in materials
~ Jennifer Kronovet, “I Talk to Another More Than Myself”
3/9 First the air is blue and then
it is bluer and then green and then
black
~ Adrienne Rich, “Diving into the Wreck”
3/10 we don’t mind
or notice any more that the sky is green,
a parrot one
~ John Ashbery, “Daffy Duck in Hollywood”
3/11 The sky (Wait here)
is so much glass
passing over
~ Graham Foust, “Planetarium”
3/12 There was a sunlit absence.
~ Seamus Heaney, “Sunlight”
3/13 Each one other
is having different weather
~ Gwendolyn Brooks, “Boy Breaking Glass”
3/14 at the end of the sky
I weep for distant places
~ Du Fu, “Viewing the Plain” (trans: Mark Alexander)
3/15 The wind moves like a cripple
among the leaves
And repeats words without meaning.
~ Wallace Stevens, “The Motive for Metaphor”
3/16 An artificial wilderness
And a sky like lead
~ W.H. Auden, “The Shield of Achilles”
3/17 It happens like this: a kind of languor
~ Anna Akhmatova, “Secrets of the Craft”
3/18 A gust inside the god. A wind.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Sonnets to Orpheus: I,3” (trans: Stephen Mitchell)
3/19 the air is full of the shudders of things that
flee
~ Charles Baudelaire, “Le Crepuscule du Matin” (trans: William Aggeler)
3/20 all the world waking from its winter dream
~ James Merrill, “The World and the Child”
3/21 the world held
and rivering, a gleam
awakened and doubled
~ Mark Doty, “Description”
3/22 high and preposterous and separate
~ Philip Larkin, “Sad Steps”
3/23 All this foolishness
about moons and blossoms
~ Matsuo Basho, “All this foolishness” (trans: Robert Hass)
3/24 the common sky & sun,
or at night the moon & stars
~ Walt Whitman, “Beauty” (a series of comparisons)
3/25 Wind, flowers, and the day is aging
~ Xue Tao, “Spring Gazing” (trans: Tony Barnstone and Chou Ping)
3/26 skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Pied Beauty”
3/27 the hurricane of caution
~ Jennifer Chang, “Obedience, or the Lying Tale”
3/28 a torsion,
a cleavage, a stirring
~ Robert Pinsky, “Ode to Meaning”
3/29 for a moment I could feel the rhythm of
everything
~ Tyler Thompson, “Leslie Harrison Clem”
3/30 Below the incandescent stars
below the incandescent fruit,
the strange experience of beauty
~ Marianne Moore, “Marriage”
3/31 lighting one candle
with another candle –
spring evening
~ Yosa Buson, “Lighting one candle” (trans: Robert Hass)
April
4/1 roars from both armies
struck the high clear skies,
the lightning world of Zeus
~ Homer, The Iliad (Book 13, trans: Robert Fagles)
4/2 Joseph A. says, laconically or reasonably:
“The temperature keeps on changing.”
~ Lydia Davis, “We Miss You: A Study of Get-Well Letters from a Class of Fourth-Graders”
4/3 The wind had blown open the shutters
along the gallery to make him feel rather
exposed. He withdrew.
~ Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji (Ch. 28, trans: Edward G. Seidensticker)
4/4 Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks.
Rage, blow!
You cataracts and hurricanes, spout
Till you have drenched our steeples,
drowned the cocks.
You sulph’rous and thought-executing fires,
Vaunt-couriers of oak-cleaving
thunderbolts,
Singe my white head.
And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Strike flat the thick rotundity o’ th’ world.
~ William Shakespeare, King Lear (Act 3, Scene 2)
4/5 “Storm just bleeeew me away,”
Pennywise the Dancing Clown said.
“It blew the whole circus away.”
~ Stephen King, It (Part 1, Ch. 1)
4/6 from the bottom of a well,
you can see stars in the daylight
~ Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Book 2, Ch. 9)
4/7 “But I, watching the movement of the stars,
cannot picture to myself the rotation of the
earth and I am right in saying that the stars
move.”
~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (Part 8, Ch. 19, trans: Louise and Aylmer Maude)
4/8 So nicely adjusted was the system, so
independent of meteorology, that the sky,
whether calm or cloudy, resembled a vast
kaleidoscope whereon the same patterns
periodically recurred.
~ E.M. Forster, “The Machine Stops”
4/9 though the sun was shining and the sky a
harsh blue, there seemed to be no colour
in anything, except the posters that were
plastered everywhere
~ George Orwell, 1984 (Part 1, Ch. 1)
4/10 (picnic, lightning)
~ Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (Part 1, Ch. 2)
4/11 But it was unlike other lightning I had
encountered: being slower, more silent,
more regular.
~ Robert Aickman, “The Inner Room”
4/12 Thunder splits the rift
where the sun floods in.
~ David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Ch. 26)
4/13 Outside it’s sunny. A regular day. A guy’s
changing his oil. The clouds are regular
clouds and the sun’s the regular sun.
~ George Saunders, “Sea Oak”
4/14 scudding wisps of cloud
~ Cao Xueqin, Dream of the Red Chamber (Ch. 5, trans: David Hawkes)
4/15 the sky is an unnatural cobalt and the
sunlight is thin but hard, even with the
ultraviolet filtered out
~ Maureen F. McHugh, China Mountain Zhang (Ch. “Homework”)
4/16 The cold grows, it grows, and your
Mother-eyes are growing, glowing. Soon
you will be alone with our children and the
warm will come again.
~ James Tiptree, Jr. “Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death”
4/17 She felt it was strange that, even with her
eyes closed, she could see the blue light
in the sky.
~ Can Xue, “Blue Light in the Sky” (trans: Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping)
4/18 The moon shone down on everything with
that simplicity and serenity which no other
light possesses.
~ Franz Kafka, The Trial (Ch. 10: The End, trans: Willa and Edwin Muir)
4/19 The daylight above the motorway grew
brighter, an intense desert air. The white
concrete became a curving bone.
~ J.G. Ballard, Crash (Ch. 21)
4/20 the color of television, tuned to a dead
channel
~ William Gibson, Neuromancer (Part 1: Chiba City Blues, Ch. 1)
4/21 The sky is unusually pale – the color of the
dust ruffle Mabel made for their bed.
~ Bobbie Ann Mason, “Shiloh”
4/22 an impalpable iridescence, supernatural
phenomena of many colours, in which
legends were depicted as on a shifting and
transitory window.
~ Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Swann’s Way (“Overture”, trans: C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin)
4/23 But the stillness and brightness of the day
were as strange as the chaos and tumult
of night, with the trees standing there, and
the flowers standing there, looking before
them, looking up, yet beholding nothing,
eyeless, and so terrible.
~ Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (Part 2: Time Passes, Ch. VII)
4/24 It is going to be a beautiful day.
~ Neil Gaiman, Sandman: Brief Lives (Ch. 1, 9)
4/25 toward the red demise of that day, toward
the evening lands and the distant
pandemonium of the sun
~ Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian (Ch. XIII)
4/26 the sun shines for you he said
~ James Joyce, Ulysses (Ch. 18: Penelope)
4/27 a wide sheath of sunlight, filled with dust
particles, slanted over her
~ Flannery O’Connor, “Good Country People”
4/28 “As long as the air is heavy and dense,” he
says, “we burrow tunnels through the air
like worms, but then the wind will come
along and erase where we have been.”
~ Kelly Link, “Travels with the Snow Queen”
4/29 Maybe I just felt like looking at all those flat
fields of nothing and the huge grey skies.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (Ch. 23)
4/30 unlimited but periodic
~ Jorge Luis Borges, “The Library of Babel” (trans: Andrew Hurley)
May
5/1 Neither from itself nor from another,
Nor from both,
Nor without a cause,
Does anything whatever, anywhere arise.
~ Nagarjuna, Mulamadhyanmakakarika (Ch. 1: Examination of Conditions, trans: Jay L. Garfield)
5/2 But one human being flaring up into
violence could open up a black hole, a
maelstrom that pulled in the sky.
~ Maxine Hong Kingston, “No Name Woman”
5/3 there prevailed in the air of these climates
some enervating influence which made
men think only of the present, careless of
the future
~ Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Ch. 1: Physical Configuration of North America, trans: George Lawrence)
5/4 supposing that as a result of ingenious
consideration an able meteorologist were
to discover that the lightning must always
strike the places A and B simultaneously
~ Albert Einstein, The Special Theory of Relativity (Ch. 8: On the Idea of Time in Physics)
5/5 the wind was blowing the cold rain in
squalls across the muddied lawns and
against the lighted windows of empty
classrooms
~ Joan Didion, “The White Album”
5/6 Lifting one’s head, one could see up there,
between the top branches of the trees,
a river of sky flowing.
~ Jules Renard, The Journals of Jules Renard (May 1894, trans: Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Roget)
5/7 familiar and comfortable but quite
impossible-to-define abstract patterns
~ Douglas Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop (Ch. 13)
5/8 There is commonly sufficient space about
us. Our horizon is never quite at our
elbows.
~ Henry David Thoreau, “Solitude”
5/9 the sky divided into horizontal bands – a
heavy purple at the bottom, separated
from the upper band of light blue by a
band of rose and orange. Even the darkest
band was translucent.
~ Arthur C. Danto, “Rothko and Beauty”
5/10 it happens that atoms composing clouds
and flying storm-clouds also come into this
sky of ours from outside the world
~ Lucretius, On the Nature of the Universe (Book 6)
5/11 The wind blows over the earth:
The image of Contemplation.
~ I Ching (20. Kuan/Contemplation, trans: Richard Wilhelm and Cary F. Baynes)
5/12 The Great Clod belches out breath and its
name is wind. So long as it doesn’t come
forth, nothing happens. But when it does,
then ten thousands hollows begin crying
wildly. Can’t you hear them, long drawn
out?
~ Zhuang Zi, “Discussion on Making All Things Equal” (trans: Burton Watson)
5/13 mausolean disburgeon
~ William Davies King, Collections of Nothing (Ch. 5)
5/14 The sky snapped over the sun like a lens cover.
~ Annie Dillard, “Total Eclipse”
5/15 a cold, sea-sharp wash of relief
~ Adrienne Rich, “Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying”
5/16 Rain can also spoil food supplies, wet
powder, soak bowstrings (making them
worthless until they dry) and destroy maps
and papers. Most animals are
bad-tempered in the rain (-2 to
controllability).
~ Steve Jackson, GURPS (Generic Universal Roleplaying System, Basic Set, 3rd Edition)
5/17 The attainment of enlightenment is like the
moon reflected on the water. The moon
does not get wet, and the surface of the
water is not broken.
~ Dogen, Shobogenzo (Ch. 4: Manifesting Suchness, trans: Norman Waddell and Masao Abe)
5/18 A front is pulling the huge sky over me,
and from the dark a hailstone has hit me
on the head.
~ Gretel Ehrlich, “The Solace of Open Spaces”
5/19 the storm that seemed in its fury, as it was
experienced, to sum up in itself all that a
storm can be
~ John Dewey, Art as Experience (Ch. 3: Having an Experience)
5/20 not transcendental or sublime but material
and concrete
~ Briony Fer, Vija Celmins (Focus: Night Sky #19 (1998))
5/21 It is night and one is expecting a visitor.
Suddenly one is startled by the sound of
rain-drops, which the wind blows against
the shutters.
~ Sei Shonagon, The Pillow Book (Ch. 16: Things That Make One’s Heart Beat Faster, trans: Ivan Morris)
5/22 Nature is a Haunted House
~ Emily Dickinson, letter to T.W. Higginson (1876)
5/23 The human environment has always been,
to some degree, artificial.
~ Rosalind Williams, Notes on the Underground (Ch 1: The Underground As a Vision of the Technological Future)
5/24 It is being dispersed in clouds of narrative
language elements
~ Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition (Introduction)
5/25 The world’s been turned upside down.
~ Anne Frank, Diary (May 25th, 1944, trans: Susan Massotty)
5/26 Although we live in a hollow of the earth,
we assume that we are living on the
surface, and we call the air heaven, as
though it were the heaven through which
the stars move.
~ Plato, Phaedo (trans: Hugh Tredennick)
5/27 the sky stops being a ‘visual perception’, to
become my world of the moment
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception (Part 2, Ch. 1: Sense Experience, trans: Colin Smith)
5/28 Happening and have it as happening and
having it happen as happening and having
to have it happen as happening
~ Gertrude Stein, “As a Wife Has a Cow: A Love Story”
5/29 How much more evocative and pleasing it
is to think about the spring without stirring
from the house, to dream of the moonlit
night though we remain in our room!
~ Kenko, Essays in Idleness (Ch. 137, trans: Donald Keene)
5/30 It is sullen and grey if the party is
quarrelling among itself, bright and
springlike if everyone is happy. It is also
very susceptible to MAGIC.
~ Diana Wynne Jones, The Tough Guide to Fantasyland (Section W)
5/31 churning out 3D graphics with ease
~ Jeremy Parish, Gamespite Quarterly 5 (Section 6: The Apocrypha of NES)
June
6/1 cornflower blue skies and stationary
clouds
~ Super Mario Bros. (World 1-1)
6/2 A cool tropical breeze at your back.
Interrupted. Out of the blue.
~ Sonic the Hedgehog (Green Hill Zone)
6/3 clear sailing for your airship, above a tilted
planet
~ Final Fantasy IV
6/4 Scattered clouds, bloodstains on the
square.
~ Street Fighter II (Chun Li’s stage: China)
6/5 The Biosystems and weather control
systems suddenly became useless.
~ Phantasy Star II (text after defeating Mother Brain)
6/6 air full of riot
~ Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
6/7 Beware a rain of eggplants.
~ Kid Icarus
6/8 drowned world: light swells and false
choices
~ BioShock
6/9 Aching just to blow aside
~ Red Dead Redemption (lyrics to “Far Away” by Jose Gonzalez)
6/10 arcs up and over
a ribbon of sky
~ Halo: Combat Evolved
6/11 slow, orderly, alien precipitation
~ Space Invaders
6/12 a steady horizontal rain
~ Thunder Force III (the doubleshot)
6/13 Lumbering shapes on the horizon, august
and doomed.
~ Shadow of the Colossus
6/14 A light descends and I’m unpetrified.
~ ActRaiser
6/15 morning light from an upper window –
it’s finally over
~ Super Castlevania IV (‘death’ of Dracula)
6/16 curlicued winds, woken, still charming
~ The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
6/17 Prankster Comet detected!
~ Super Mario Galaxy 2
6/18 In the rain or in the snow
I got the funky flow
but now I really gotta go
~ PaRappa the Rapper (lyrics to”Full Tank” (Bathroom Song))
6/19 wind to the north, west, south, west
~ The Legend of Zelda (The Lost Woods)
6/20 hazy, puffed-up clouds, prose
~ Braid
6/21 in thick 2D: textured but untouchable
~ Kirby’s Epic Yarn
6/22 cloudy with a chance of doom
~ World of Goo (intro text to Chapter 5-3: Weather Vane)
6/23 nublado, despiadado
~ Resident Evil 4
6/24 Calamity from the Skies
~ Final Fantasy VII (Jenova)
6/25 In your empire, there’s no time for the
daily, for ‘weather’.
~ Civilization series
6/26 thirteen floors of maze and spell between
you and the sky
~ Dungeon Master (the bottom)
6/27 No windows but many glass doors leading
to long, dim corridors, and the air was
slightly damp.
~ Metroid
6/28 artificial light and a roomful of recirculated
air
~ Portal 2
6/29 Metaphysical storms. No problem.
Everything’s fine.
~ El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron
6/30 White petals falling up, and down.
Press the button.
~ Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (killing The Boss)
July
7/1 red
7/2 faked
7/3 territorial
7/4 treasonous
7/5 lapsed
7/6 feckless
7/7 forgettable
7/8 localized
7/9 sublimated
7/10 precipitating
7/11 relevant
7/12 stark
7/13 glaring
7/14 arbitrary
7/15 rerun
7/16 systemic
7/17 undeniable
7/18 shitstorm
7/19 unwinking
7/20 metempsychotic
7/21 spottieottiedopaliscious
7/22 ephemeral
7/23 photoshopped
7/24 notwithstanding
7/25 here
7/26 unmoored
7/27 whether
7/28 subjunctive
7/29 palimpsest
7/30 worded
7/31 moot
August
8/1 sun + air
8/2 wind + wind
8/3 color + field
8/4 cloud + ontology
8/5 cumulus + home
8/6 chemicals + reactions
8/7 hysterical + useless
8/8 gods – guanxi
8/9 pattern – recognition
8/10 moon – pull
8/11 storm – affect
8/12 stupid – contagious
8/13 fog + quarantine
8/14 transition + transmission
8/15 empty + stranger + dwelling
8/16 ceiling + shadow + between
8/17 cloudless + pressure + passage
8/18 continuous + cling + rage
8/19 drivel + geometry + echo
8/20 space + time + soup
8/21 lightning + code + entelechy
8/22 monad + monad + monad + monad + monad + monad + monad + monad + monad +
monad + monad + monad + monad + monad + monad + monad + monad + monad +
monad + monad + monad + monad + monad + monad + monad + monad + monad +
monad + monad + monad + monad + monad + monad + monad + monad + monad +
monad + monad + monad + monad + monad + monad + monad + monad + monad +
monad + monad + monad + monad + monad + monad + monad + monad + monad +
monad + monad + monad + monad + monad + monad + monad + monad + monad +
monad + monad + monad + monad + monad + monad + monad + monad + monad
8/23 knowns + unknowns + combinations
8/24 perfect + bananafish
8/25 periphery + attrition
8/26 guerilla + monsoon
8/27 event + another
8/28 now + here
8/29 is + if
8/30 a + the
8/31 what + where + when – why
September
9/1 visibility: 2.0 miles
(Chengdu, Sichuan ~ 2010)
9/2 dew point: 68°F
(Mianyang, Sichuan ~ 2007)
9/3 average humidity: 65%
(Iowa City, Iowa ~ 2003)
9/4 minimum humidity: 16%
(Santa Fe, New Mexico ~ 2002)
9/5 maximum temperature: 91°F
(Lexington, Kentucky ~ 1999)
9/6 maximum wind speed: 18 mph
(Chicago, Illinois ~ 1995)
9/7 precipitation: 0.00 inches
(Nicholasville, Kentucky ~ 1987)
9/8 mean sea level pressure: 30.13 inches
(Lancaster, Kentucky ~ 1983)
9/9 snow depth: no data
(Beijing, China ~ 1976)
9/10 conditions: clear
(New York City ~ 1973)
9/11 eclipse: solar
(15.6N 114.1W ~ 1969)
9/12 moon: waxing gibbous
(Houston, Texas ~ 1962)
9/13 wind speed: 15 mph (south)
(Waco, Texas ~ 1956)
9/14 begin civil twilight: 5:03 am CET
(Berlin, Germany ~ 1930)
9/15 sunrise: 5:47 am KST
(Pyongyang, Korea ~ 1894)
9/16 duration of daylight: 12 hours 37 minutes
(Dublin, Ireland ~ 1893)
9/17 end civil twilight: 6:47 pm LMT
(Sharpsburg, Maryland ~ 1862)
9/18 end nautical twilight: 7:21 LMT
(San Cristobal Island ~ 1835)
9/19 at 3:15 pm: 75°F, rain
(Monticello, Virginia ~ 1776)
9/20 dawn: rosy-fingered
(Athens, Greece ~ 399 BCE)
9/21 wu wei
(State of Chu in the late Spring and Autumn Period)
9/22 stabilized
(Mesopotamia ~ 8000 BCE)
9/23 contemplated
(Africa ~ 40,000 BCE)
9/24 a new star in the sky, temporarily
(Yucatan Peninsula ~ 65,000,000 BCE)
9/25 oxygen catastrophe
(Earth ~ 2,400,000,000 BCE)
9/26 bang
(universe ~ beginning of time)
9/27 maximum entropy
(universe ~ end of time)
9/28 variable
(across the multiverse)
9/29 cold, dry, empty
(a random point in space ~ a random point in time)
9/30 warm, wet, full
(womb ~ 1976)
October
10/1 postpone the wedding
10/2 a perfect day for Erinyes
10/3 bad hair day – take precautions
10/4 wind in the trees, rumors of you
10/5 what are you waiting for?
10/6 senseless, still
10/7 you won’t remember later
10/8 someone said:
Onion skins very thin
Mild winter coming in;
Onion skins thick and tough
Coming winter cold and rough.
10/9 someone else said:
O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of
the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of
the times?
10/10 as above, so below;
as below, so above.
so they say.
10/11 Libra sun, Aries moon
The culmination of a long courtship
10/12 Venus in Scorpio
It’s all or nothing
10/13 Uranus still retrograde
Best day to wean animals or children
10/14 Gamma Cassiopeia never sets
Watch words with W
10/15 Mars leaving the Beehive Cluster
You don’t have to stay where you are
10/16 Tail of Cygnus the Swan directly above
The end to a friendship or romance
You choose
10/17 Auspicious conditions for:
Grand openings
Haircuts
Lawsuits
Brewing wine
10/18 Inauspicious conditions for:
Tailoring
Pest control
Sending a dowry
Consulting fortunetellers
10/19 a lull
a Rabbit year day
10/20 the lightning-struck Tower
earth above, sky below
10/21 the Hanged Man
surrender to the elements
10/22 the Fool
neither and otherwise
10/23 they say:
climate is what you expect;
weather is what you get.
10/24 dud
my favorite
10/25 you know where you are with
10/26 new moon
tide coming in
10/27 a mess of stars
10/28 that’s a satellite
not a star
10/29 could this be the one?
10/30 careful what you wish for
10/31 you cannot hide
it’s at the door
November
11/1 Supersaturated mental Fog blanketing the
entire State of Mind, unlikely to affect
residents of the Negative Zone. Regular
multitaskers should proceed slowly and
with caution.
~ Daniel Lee (Lexington, Kentucky)
11/2 fuck this shit
~ David Austin (Lexington, Kentucky)
11/3 Cold rain.
Meanwhile, the leaves keep fluttering.
These are your astonishments.
~ Carrie Ann Welsh (Lexington, Kentucky)
11/4 The sunshine is back just in time for the
weekend and Breeders’ Cup.
~ Christie Dutton, Wave 3 TV (Louisville, Kentucky)
11/5 Clear Sky
2°C
Wind: 7 mph
Humidity: 59%
Pressure: N/A
Visibility: Very good
~ Luo Jiali (Sheffield, UK)
11/6 cloud ceiling low, visibility bad, mostly
foggy
~ He Jianping (Guanghan, Sichuan)
11/7 rowdy with a hint of pain
~ Janani Sreenivasan (Brooklyn, New York)
11/8 Darling! Today is November 8th, 2011.
I’m your Tuesday girl, Esse. Come on, baby!
(dances over cities and temperatures)
Do you love my new look?
I want to be…sexy for you.
Don’t forget, I’m your Tuesday girl, Esse.
Meow!
~ Weather Girls (Youtube)
11/9 it is an infectious grey pregnant with
deferred winter. we had a snow storm and
now we are sitting between many future
snow storms and the possibility of
springtime’s resurgence. it is, in a word,
uncanny.
~ Scott Combs (Queens, New York)
11/10 beautiful blue skies
high wispy clouds in the distance
golden sunshine
a slight breeze
seventy degrees Fahrenheit
twenty one Celsius
~ David Lynch (Los Angeles, California ~ November 10, 2009)
11/11 Wrong in all predictions
~ Henry Darger (Chicago, Illinois ~ November 11, 1966)
11/12 Crystal clear, brisk.
Chance of dragons.
~ @kirkhamilton (Skyrim, Tamriel)
11/13 All jets grounded.
Everything blurred under the leaden sky
full of smog and dust.
~ Zhou Zhengyuan (Chengdu, Sichuan)
11/14 Blue-grey vistas in the eyes of Evangeline
~ Byron Holz (Atlanta, Georgia)
11/15 Perfect day for a drive through the French
countryside and a feast of foie gras,
boudin noir, and loads of wine with
friends.
~ Tessa Thompson (Hong Kong, China)
11/16 mussels unease in their own poop in the
sea water, old worn socks soaked in the
rain water, how about lying by the window
nibbling a lemon pie, visualizing the
worms partying among the pacific roses
~ Li Sha (Blenheim, New Zealand)
11/17 Same weather. Different day.
~ @WeathersKwirl (Mobile)
11/18 half feels quite whole
~ Kate Ware (Nonesuch, Kentucky)
11/19 Thick fog and maybe 8 degrees C
~ Steven Plummer (Mianyang, Sichuan)
11/20 59 degrees, partly cloudy, chance of
allayed anxieties….
~ Naaman Wood (Durham, North Carolina)
11/21 The snow has fallen. Everything is
beautiful. I do not want to go back through
the wardrobe.
~ @neilhimself (mostly near minneapolis)
11/22 blue gray skies signal cozy days, early
nights, and begs for the busyness of the
holidays ahead to wait just a little while
longer
~ Patrice Thompson (Lexington, Kentucky)
11/23 I only want to see you standing in the
purple rain.
~ C.B. Thompson (Lexington, Kentucky)
11/24 Sealed in a jar. Perfectly fermented.
~ Kim Qi (Jar)
11/25 Bwahahahahahahahahahaha
~ @NICKIMINAJ (mypinkfriday.com)
11/26 not a movement, with goals, but a
collective reaction to a particular set of
allergens
~ @walterkirn (montana and california)
11/27 thing in cloud
~ Chy Gallstone (Spawncity)
11/28 and i am there
and the sheep
they are there
both, the sheep and me
we’re both there –
fogged between mountains
~ Tyler Thompson (Geochang, South Korea)
11/29 a clear lapis lazuli sky. well, not here but
somewhere, and that’s just as good.
~ Devanshu Patel (San Francisco, California)
11/30 silver silhouette still waiting, the old
farmer suffering cataracts,
“2000 RMB buys you a world”
~
6 a.m. sea lions barking, the body in the
bathroom still warm
~
seagulls circling the everyday sky,
mourning the 19 ceased flowers of China
~ Zhou Wenjia (Monterey, California)
December
12/1 REMAIN INDOORS
12/2 the ceiling dimpled and stained, as usual
12/3 curtains drawn
blinds down
warm lamplight
12/4 my air central, conditioned
12/5 sunlit carpet parallelograms
12/6 motes, seen and unseen
12/7 fingerprints on glass
12/8 I haven’t left the house in days.
12/9 Alone, I fill up the house.
I AM BECOME WEATHER
THE SHAPER OF WORLDS
12/10 Remember the light midnight rain that
caught us 4 years ago?
She says.
12/11 does not repeat
12/12 ineluctable modality of the visible
12/13 late night television snow
12/14 primed for self-hypnosis
12/15 will not breach my A.T. field
12/16 She says,
Will you please come out and see
for yourself?
12/17 door opens
senses fire
on fire
synaptic collapse
12/18 sun mocks me
12/19 How can I be sure I’m actually outside,
not still in my chair, in front of my screen,
conjuring weather?
12/20 I can’t be sure.
12/21 the visions you will see
12/22 book of changes
12/23 Chinese scapegoat
12/24 furniture music
12/25 common
in common
12/26 a conversation starter
an interpretive matrix
12/27 whether
12/28 Enough, she says.
No more wordplay or metaphors or epiphanies.
Only weather.
12/29 There is a world outside of you,
you say.
12/30 I don’t know you, or I do.
It doesn’t matter.
We look up, around.
12/31 some weather we’ve had
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