May 1, 2023
Greetings from the precipitation,
“…another crisis has…”
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“…political unrest in the…”
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“…three out of four dentists…”
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“…and that’s how the cookie crumbles, ha-ha-ha, thanks Renee, for that report. Next up, we turn to the weather with our Triple Doppler forecast, here’s meteorologist, Dirk Garret. How’s it looking for the coming week, Dirk?”
“Well, Brad, the week should be very interesting. Let’s go to the Triple Doppler Stormtracker 3000, you can see on the screen here, there is an enormous Word Cloud forming in the west,…”
“Dirk, excuse me, but I’m not sure I heard you right. Did you say ‘word cloud’?”
“Exactly, you heard right, Brad, it’s a rare formation of words that seems to be concentrated largely over the prairie states…”
“Again, Dirk, excuse me, but just so our viewers at home are not confused, are you talking about clouds made out of words?”
“Brad, you described it perfectly thanks. You can see on the screen behind me that there is an enormous front of powerful words making its way across the plains here, spinning off some smaller collections just west of Omaha,…”
“Last time, sorry, Dirk, but I am not sure we got that. You’re the meteorologist, here, but seriously, what are ‘word clouds’? Ha-ha-ha, getting questions from the control room.”
“Sure, great question Brad. This is a rare weather pattern we don’t normally track, but it looks like this is going to have an impact on most of the Midwest, and according to the model we are working on, …let’s put that in motion on the big screen, … you will see that the Word Cloud making its way up across the Great Lakes region and moving across the eastern seaboard by end of the week.”
“Switching back to the national screen, you can see the first formation of the pattern here, just on the edge of the Rockies, where evidently the thermals have lifted these collections of words up from the lower elevations, possibly where they joined words that flowed from the Pacific driven by El Nino winds. Most of these words, spoken into the atmosphere at various places across the globe, seem to have gathered into one system as it reached the Sierra Nevadas and gathered strength as it moved east.”
“Hey, Dirk, just a few questions from our producer on this weather pattern, maybe we should clear up. Just for our sponsors, who evidently are checking in too. Exactly where are these words coming from?”
“Well, Brad, these words come from where all words come from, we choose them, and set them into the atmosphere when we express ourselves.”
“Right. So is this some kind of climate change thing? Or are you speaking metaphorically instead of meteorologically?”
“Great questions, and you can see on the map, these are real words, let’s zoom in here you can see the formation, here is a freeze frame of this squall over Chicago: see the cluster? Looks like…compassion, mercy, kindness, … quite a few in that category, here you can see a cluster of empathy and forgiveness, just to isolate a few.”
“Ah…what?”
“Turning to our regional map, several small pockets of precipitation, we can expect admiration, awareness, thanks, and a smattering of generosity and awe, in this area, maybe followed by scattered grace and gratitude.”
“What kind of …what is… well, Dirk, this is an unusual…”
“Locally you can expect the Word Clouds to be in our area for the coming days. Let’s put up our Stormtracker 3000 weather calendar for the week. You can see Tuesday we will have patience and friendship, mixed with civility and charity, maybe a little joy and humility, probably til midday. By Wednesday and Thursday we’ll see spotty precipitation of neighborly and welcoming, maybe a forty percent chance of harmony and respect in the late afternoon.”
“And for Friday, Cinco de Mayo, occasional happiness and optimism, probably forgiveness, empathy, charity and beauty mixing in by drive time. We had a few reports of strong cells of celebration and delight, but hard to say if that will hold until Friday.”
“For the weekend, the front will be diminishing, maybe a little civility Saturday morning, but we see here a low pressure cell will drive peace, harmony, and love, and I’m forecasting a strong cell of hope in our area probably through Sunday. That’s our Triple Doppler Stormtracker forecast, back to you Brad.”
“Well… good to know, Dirk, I don’t know if we should pack dictionaries or our umbrellas, this week, ha-ha-ha, eh, ha-ha.”
“This is a rare system, Brad, so for most of our viewers, I’d recommend going out in the words and getting good and wet.”
“Ah, ok, thanks Dirk, you had me at a loss for ‘words’ for a moment there. Ha-ha-ha, turning now to sports, Jonny Blaine has some updates on the new baseball rules… ”
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Hope this finds you making it rain,
David
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