The Weather Deepens

It’s our last full week of NaPoWriMo (National /Global Poetry Writing Month) and the A-Z Challenge. I hope you’re enjoying the A to Z of Depth.

When we talk about the weather, it’s usually small talk. The most shallow kind of talk with no emotional connection unless there’s been a severe weather event. However, one of our definitions of Deepen comes from Meteorology. Deepen can mean to decrease in atmospheric pressure. So let’s take a look and some deepening weather.

Weather is relative. It is not so much about atmospheric pressure, but change in pressure.

Definitions from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA:

Deepening A decrease in the central pressure of a surface low pressure system. The storm is intensifying.

Explosive Deepening A decrease in the minimum sea-level pressure of a tropical cyclone of 2.5 mb/hr for at least 12 hours or 5 mb/hr for at least six hours.

Rapid Deepening A decrease in the minimum sea-level pressure of a tropical cyclone of 1.75 mb/hr or 42 mb for 24 hours

NOAA also has the National Weather Service. In their education section I found JetStream-An Online School for Weather if you would like to explore further.

I like that term “Explosive Deepening.” It’s got me imagining sudden emotions as explosive deepening.

Today’s Poem

Explosive Deepening – A Sonnet

You tell me to respond on my own time
I relax into how sublime that sounds
Then you tell me I’m running out of time
I bristle warm and nervous at the sound

Molecules collide in the container
heating and vibrating between the sides
Soon the building pressure won’t be contained
and the cyclonic storm will not take sides

But the weather here is all relative
only measured by atmospheric change
All my responses are relational
The constant—sea level—dares also change

We’re all in an intensifying storm
that will dissipate until it reforms

This poem was inspired by today’s prompts at NaPoWriMo, Writer’s Digest’s April Poem a Day (PAD) Challenge, and what I learned from NOAA for today’s A to Z post.

Thank you so much for coming by and reading my post. Any thoughts or questions about Deepening Weather? Come back tomorrow for more depth exploration and poetry.