Hello freaks and fiends, I’m writing weather reports for Currently’s Washington, DC newsletter. This week, you get your climate + weather forecasts with a side of local DMV-area Monster Myths. You already know some of the horrors creeping in and around the district, so hopefully I cover some new creeps you don’t know. But first, here’s more about Currently:
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Monstrous & Mythological October Weather
Monday, October 25th, 2021
Here’s your forecast from the p.o.v of local DMV monster myth, winged-reptile chimera, “Snallygaster” —
Skies Monday aren’t ideal for your usual late October swoop-down-from-the-clouds-and-search-for-prey
Prepare for 10-15mph winds and wear your quick spirit against early warm greys
Use your scales as cover against later cloudiness, thunder chances, and rain
Read about my friends, eels, and salamanders among ‘critters in crisis’ in DC region, experts say
Or What Climate Change Will Look Like In DC, and let’s still make it a good day
By spreading our wings and words racing to the future we accelerate.Beast regards,
Snallygaster
Tuesday, October 26th, 2021
Here’s your forecast from the p.o.v of local DMV monster myth, bunny-costumed axe-wielder, “The Bunnyman” —
Tuesday’s cooler and choppier, with gusts from 15mph up to 30mph
In rabid winds, my rabbit ears are floppier, but I’m grabbing a jacket early
Carrying an umbrella in it too, guarding against hoppier 50s-60s, winds, and rains
Away from early partly sun to evening cloudier, we’ll take what we can gainLike hopping-on a free bikeshare for the month, checking-out Diane Burko’s Katzen Art exhibition: Seeing Climate Change, or organizing for a climate-aware Fed Chair @ShutDownDC rally Friday.
Take Hare,
The Bunnyman
Wednesday, October 27th, 2021
Wednesday’s a bit windy, but with more sun, good monster-hunting weather
Fifties turn to sixties around 11 am and then back down again around 11 pm
Layered, it’s pleasantly average Autumn weather to follow a zephyr
Arriving on a mossy rock and a hard place, with a monster myth between-them —
Here’s where I’ll tell you the story of the DC Swamp Monster
A political deluge, an obstructionist cesspool, a multilevel lobbyist conster
Creeping spores from Rock Creek mixed within the quagmire of Congress
A boggy creature who calls anyone who halts climate progress accomplice
Whom they can’t thrive without
So we’ll help vote them all out.
Thursday, October 28th, 2021
Thursday, let’s break the curse of our carbon captured Congress
Against an early couple clouds creeping like the myth of the fossil feline “Demon Cat” lingering in capital hallways
Afternoon’s overcast with oil executives and lobbyists
A cool day, but not for these deniers and delayers
With possible evening showers. Starting 9AM the Oversight Committee overhears
“Fueling the Climate Crisis: Exposing Big Oil’s Disinformation Campaign to Prevent Climate Action.”
Our counter-curse needs your help to cast–
1. Tune-in and share on-blast:
2. Learn how #ExxonKnew & drill further into Big Oil’s climate crimes
3. With Truth, we summon thee: Accountability.
Friday, October 29th, 2021
Friday will be wet
Showers heavy-to-moderate
Morning onset, diffuse, and dissipate
Gusts early, with rain mostly consistent
Pooling and flooding 1-2 inches thick
With what we can contribute
Spreading drops of truth that drip
Across the capital crescent
Supercharged mix
Cycling hydrologic
From greyrise to rainset
From wildlife to mindset
From sea to shining get
From sunrise to every
Sunrise on new systems we beget
“Nothing will change”
-is just another DC Monster Myth
Because like all this rain
Mixed in every soil grain
We grow garden riot horizons
Speaking Truth-to-Power
Never really setting
But always arising.
— Adam Powers