Monday, April 25, 2011

My Weather Woes




I gazed out at the sky one afternoon to see Mr.Sun shining away to glory. It was mid-April and I thought to myself “well,it looks pretty sunny so there’s no need to wear the extra hoodie”, and I stroll out happily humming a tune of a song by Westlife.
I rushed back inside fifteen minutes later having frozen my hands off my body and shivering intensely. The temperature outside was freezing even with the sun shining brightly.
That was just one of my encounters with the weird temperature phenomenon that residents of Rolla keep experiencing from time to time.
There have been so many instances, when the weather has been hot enough for me to have to switch on the air-conditioner in the afternoon. But the same evening, the mercury decides to plummet like a stone and we end up turning our heaters on. Allright, so I am new to this place and even to this country. I had researched enough about the weather in Rolla, but frankly- nothing had prepared me for days when the temperatures fluctuated like a sine wave.
I mean, wasn’t summer supposed to have arrived by now and started frying car-roofs and our heads? I even went and bought myself a nice pair of flip-flops (a branded one) one the second day of April but I have had almost no chance to put-them to use so far. I might as well sell them off on e-bay and hopefully make some profit (with some clever marketing techniques).
It sometimes even feels as if God has handed over the weather-department to an imbecile who loves fiddling with the Rolla-weather-knob. And I bet he has that evil smile on his face every time a Rolla resident scurries into his house to pick up a hoodie or an umbrella.
And now we’re experiencing torrential rain? In the last week of April? Wow! The only guys who benefit from this kind of weather fluctuations are the weather-guys who have more work and thus earn more during this period. Is it all because of the so-called ‘Global Warming’ that the world is talking about and having expensive conferences on tropical islands but actually end up doing nothing about it? Maybe.
Possible side effects of this kind of weather include: loud cursing while looking at the sky, have a permanent scorn on your face, venturing out wearing a hoodie with an umbrella dangling from the your shirt, not being able to decide what kind of footwear to buy/wear and possible near-hypothermia amongst others.

1 comment:

सुधन्वा आगवेकर said...

Smaran...your style of narration; use of words and phrases, the wittiness are some of the aspects I really like in your posts...good one!