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.
Experience Writing 
I love this poem! Weather fascinates me even though I don’t know the science behind it. Even though it’s changing and often becoming more severe lately (I live in a tornado-prone area and along an earthquake fault), I’ve found that I can sense what might happen easier if I just tune in to what’s going on outside. Maybe that’s step one to learning more about it.
– Allison
https://lightningflashwriting.blogspot.com/
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Climate change requires more action and less small talk. Great poem. Here from the A-Z and enjoyed reading.
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I’ve enjoyed how you have distilled and/or applied the learning aspects of your posts this month into your poems. I used to like to step outside and feel what the weather would be. Now I pick up my cell phone and look at the weather app. Something has been lost, I think.
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Thank you. I made a choice to not have a cell phone, and I truly enjoy my difference.
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You’re welcome.
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Love the poem – relax then bristle, intensify then dissipate. Weather and emotions – it’s a new lens for me to look through.
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Thank you. I’m so glad you enjoyed it.
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