K's Korner: The Beauty of Storms

Krushangi Maisuria is a regular contributor to Fairfield HamletHub and Editor of HamletHub's Teen Times. This week, she writes about "The Beauty of Storms"...

With all the gray skies and rain lately, it is incredibly easy to wish for sunny skies. However, we have sun and blue skies almost all the time. In fact, our definition of normal weather in Fairfield would probably revolve around sun and blue.

Shouldn't the deviation from the ordinary weather be welcomed?

Half of all weather is ordinary and normal. There's the usual forecast that you normally associate with weather- you know, the rainy spring days, the boiling summer days, the windy autumn days and the gloomy winter days.

What amazes me though, is that even with this ordinary weather, sometimes, just sometimes, there are cyclones and thunderstorms and hurricanes. This is the weather I love- when the wind is howling at over sixty miles an hour and there is a glimpse of silver lightning and there is the deep, bellowing sound of thunder and there is the smell of a muddy, glittering storm and there are prickles of rain pouring down like hard diamonds.

It can be sunny almost anywhere in the world. You could travel from New York to Paris to Beijing to Sydney and there will still be an outpouring of glorious sunshine. There is nothing special about sunshine because it is so abundant. The storms, however, are special. They are not ordinary and common. Not only are storms special to certain regions, they are also special to certain times of the years.

Of course, I'm not saying that I would trade in sunny skies for stormy skies. I love the sun; I love ordinary weather as well. However, when a storm is brewing, we should appreciate it for its beauty and its spontaneity, instead of forever wishing for sun.