The weather in another'Atlantic edge island' is pretty mild these days,
although it's already snowing in the north of the country. Autumn has been
late in coming, but now we've had our first touch of night-frost. A calm
northerly breeze, the sun's very low in the nearly cloudless sky, making a
tired effort to create day, but only manages to lift itself to my eyelevel,
shining directly in my face as I sit by my computer. It's almost ten thirty
in the morning. Only two months to the darkest day, only two months until it
begins to climb by a daily hen's foot towards summer. The view is
spectacular and I can see the Snæfellsnes peninsula very clearly.
best
Árni
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Árni Ibsen
Stekkjarkinn 19,
220 Hafnarfjördur,
Iceland
tel.: +354-555-3991
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on 10/23/02 12:43 AM, Chris Jones at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Dear list
>
> Lets talk about the weather. What is the weather like where you are?
>
> The weather is a way to talk about the landscape or the environment in
> which you live which moves toward a landscape which is felt more then
> visual description, perhaps.
>
> Here, now, the sky is the colour of my milk and two sugar Nescafe
> instant coffee... a light brown colour. I cast a brown shadow onto sun
> bleached concrete and the spectrum has moved from blue to red. The green
> leaves of garden plants glow darkly greener still. A strong westerly
> wind is blowing in a dust storm from the dry dirt of the New South Wales
> outback. There is a drought here and the flat earth is bare of
> vegetation. the sky is big, very big, here, even when filled with brown
> dust. A few days ago, as spring begins, the temperature rose to 41
> degrees C (105 F) yet only three months prior the temperature fell to
> minus five degrees C, in the mornings just before sunrise. The sun rises
> up then falls down without any twilight to speak of, maybe twenty
> minutes, at most. A strange burnt oil musky taste fills my mouth.
>
> What is the weather like where you are? What's it like in Canada, USA,
> UK, Northern Europe, South America, Asia, the Middle East, south eastern
> Australia and wherever you may be. What's the weather like in the
> classroom you teach in? In the streets you walk in? I gotta know, is it
> raining? What's the rain like. A thin misty dribble or great globules
> spat from angry black clouds. Is there a mist or a fog? Is there a
> drought, permafrosts, earthquakes, an exploding volcano or a calm sunny
> day?
>
> ...tell me please, best wishes
>
> Chris Jones.
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