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Would you get bored, occasionally, and get mischievous, at times, and unleash a string of tornadoes somewhere, flood out a city, rock people out of their beds some night with an earthquake, let an area of the world die of thirst as a form of punishment, create a hailstorm somewhere, dump 2 feet of snow some place where they've never seen snow before, dump a foot of rain, just for fun, somewhere in the Atacama Desert where they normally only get .01 precip. a year?
Nah! I can't think of anyone who becomes the newly-elected Mother Nature to be that insensitive or sadistic or fun-loving! Or would the temptations be too great to overcome?
What kind of Mother would you be? And what would be fun to you?
I would be a very very harsh mother. The worst weather this world has ever seen. especially in highly populated areas.
WHY? because us humans have destroyed so much of this world, taken so much from the other animals that try so deseperately to survive in an environment that has been formed to be suited for people.
when I am done, people will respect the world again.
Guessing that being mother nature doesn't give me the power to change climates I'd go with this.
I'd let loose a massive cold wave throughout Europe with the British isles seeing record breaking cold London will see a new record low of -17c alongside other British cities. I can almost hear the news stories already "ice age comes to Britain" Also blizzards.
I'd make Melbourne see its coldest winter on record with 4cm of snow falling in the suburbs. Poor Full overcast.
NYC will see one of its coldest summers with temperatures failing to reach 28c in July while Northern Britain sees its most thundery and warm summer for a while.
The Asian monsoon expands to the middle east Dubai sees record breaking rain and floods.
I would absolutely be as stable and as boring as it gets. To me, normal is EVERYTHING. Although I like warm weather, I wouldn't do things like make Alaska warm, also I'm not fond of rain but in places that get a lot of rain (like Oregon), it would always be that way. Whatever is normal for an area, it would ALWAYS do that. ALWAYS. Florida would NEVER have any hard freezes, spring would never have any cold snaps, Christmas would never be warm enough for wearing shorts except in places like Key West. You sure as heck would NEVER, EVER, EVER have those times where it's 80 one day and barely in the 40s a scant 3 days later. You would NEVER read about New Mexico receiving twice as much rain as Seattle.
Never, never, ever, ever. Not even once in 30 trillion years.
And the first person who complained about it being "boring" would be burned alive by falling rocks right in front of their children.
You like "variety?" Then move to a place that has 4 seasons as a NORMAL pattern, but NEVER would I cater to the nonsense that Key West is "boring" because it never snows, or Arizona is "boring" because it doesn't rain enough. Expecting or even WANTING snow in Florida is ridiculous, wanting constant rain in the desert when you're not in Seattle anymore is ridiculous. Me: I chose to move to a certain area knowing what its normal weather patterns are & I expect to get that, just as I expect 60 watts from a 60 watt light bulb, not 30 watts one day and 200 watts the next. To do otherwise is nothing less than a form of fraud & cheating.
As you can tell, I absolutely cannot STAND it when weather isn't normal. To me it's like math--2+5 is always 7, always. Christmas is on the 25th, NO MATTER what day of the week it lands on, it is ALWAYS on the 25th. I don't like inconsistencies & drama--if I wanted drama, I'd watch a soap opera. If I wanted constant up-down nonsense, I'd get a season pass to Six Flags and ride the roller coasters. I like things predictable & consistent, no surprises. If I want something wacko, I'll make it that way myself by changing my routines and my life MYSELF. I do not appreciate or accept it being done TO me, and with wacko aspects such as it being 80 degrees one day and in the 40s less than a week later, all during a time when the normal is around 62. Instead, during that time, it would ALWAYS be 57-67, no more than 5 degrees one way or the other from what is NORMAL.
Normal isn't "boring," normal means there's a sense of order and freedom from chaos. You don't wake up one day and everything has been turned completely upside down all over the place. THAT is how the weather should be, ALWAYS. Spring should be spring, not a flip-flop of winter and summer within the same week. You shouldn't go months with no rain then all of a sudden it refuses to stop.
The one exception I might make, regardless of what's "normal"--there would be almost no cloudy days where it's not raining. NEVER would it be cloudy but not raining. The only reason to be cloudy is to rain, that's IT. If you're not raining, then get out of here and bring the sun back. In other words--pee or get off the stinking pot.
Last edited by shyguylh; 12-26-2013 at 10:18 AM..
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