Climate Vs. Weather Essay

Writers often use weather to highlight important moods of their novels. Oxford Royale defines this use as a pathetic fallacy; “A literary device in which human emotions are attributed to aspects of nature, such as the weather” (Oxford Royale). Pathetic fallacies are often utilized in the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, to help highlight important scenes. Fitzgerald uses the weather to both reflect and emphasize the interactions between Gatsby and the other characters to help the…

twenty feet below me and looked about fifteen to twenty feet deep. The large trees surrounding the river had just changed to their fall colors, and some leaves began to drift down. Fall was my favorite time of year, with football games, the cold weather, Halloween, and Thanksgiving nothing was better. I layed back on the bridge, threw my arms above my head, and sighed. I had many things to do and hadn’t done any of it. I sat for a while and…

have all seemed to run together. As Colin packs his last bags, his thoughts are lost in Naya, but soon he will be on the plane and home by the evening. He contemplates whether to call or text her before he boards or wait until he lands. The stormy weather has cancelled his previous flight but today it’s finally clear. He decided not to call before he boarded the plane. He rested as he sat next to the window. As soon as the plane starts to take…

Do you like to feel the rush of wind in your face? The thrill of a lifetime on a water ride? Then you should mosey on down to The Misty Mountains! Here, we have the amazing tingles of adrenaline passing through everyone’s bones. You feel on top of the world. No, you feel on top of the universe! This simple concept of an amazing ride adds a lot of variety to spice up your day. With modern technology, we are capable of so much more. Depending on the weight of everyone on the undeniably amazing…

Brown, you look out your window to see Chris walking down the sidewalks of Cali and while you look at Chris you’re thinking to yourself “Oh my gosh I think I’m in love.” the only motivation i have to get up out of my bed and go outside and enjoy the weather is that i know that as soon as i walk out there i’ll be greeted by the love of my life dressed in all white looking like a snack. So once i get up and…

droughts in Africa killed more than 100,000 people.” Who knew a lack of water could be so deadly? My nonfiction book, The Deadliest Weather on Earth by Connie Colwell Miller, is all about the dangers of weather. It goes over everything from snowstorms to draughts, and even deadly floods. As previously stated, my book is all about weather. It covers every type of weather, from common to extremely dangerous. One of the deadliest is tornadoes. “Tornadoes spin as fast as 300 miles per hour. Strong…

feel the effects of it depending on how bad it is. For example, as Hurricane Irma hit primary Florida other states around it was affected and it was even predicted places like Norfolk and Washington D.C. would get a storm as well. According to the climate institute, “Recently, a team of scientists published a study…

Some said of the Australian Outback that God never crossed west of the Great Dividing Range. God, of course, had a choice. Not so Durham, exiled to fly-blown Hughenden. The Sub-Inspector and Mrs Durham arrived to a barren landscape dusted in parched hues of thirsty brown, the clay soil of the basaltic plain cracked for want of rain. Mobs of cattle lay slumped amid tufts of dead grass. Occasional gum trees offered scant shade. Dogs panted. Crows flew lazy circles. Dust storms stifled breath.…

Isaac Monroe Cline was the American who thought he had the power to control the weather. Cline was the man in charge of the Texas Section of the new United States Weather Bureau in September of the year 1900. At this time, a hurricane ignored by Cline, swallowed the city of Galveston, Texas, leaving thousands dead. It can be argued that Cline was to blame for being so arrogant in not recognizing the inconsistent weather signs and acknowledging there was an unpreventable storm headed towards the…

“Crow Hill” The line from this poem of “When it is not wind it is rain” reminded me of every day in Florida. The weather here is so bipolar. One second it can be a sky full of direct sunshine and then the next second it is pouring down rain with a heavy overcast and booming thunder. Most of the time I am inside when this happens but a few times I have been caught outside. Once when this happened recently, my whole family and I were at Poe Springs for my seventeenth birthday on a Sunday in…