No Wonder Why I Feel Like I Have Cabin Fever...

[liz_marcs]

According to this graphic from today's Boston Globe, for half the month of June there was no sunlight at all, and almost every day was colder than normal for June.






Graphic ran July 1, 2009, in the Boston Globe


It's been thundering and lightening all day. All of my coworkers are snapping at each other. I'm making jokes about bring in my SAD treatment light so we can all get some beneficial light. Everyone is still wearing their winter-spring-fall clothes. No one has installed their air conditioners, either.

And if one more person goes, "So much for global warming! Hur! Hur! Hur!" I'm a-gonna smack them.

It's global climate change, you lunatics. Much as you don't want to hear it, a frigid June and a summer where there ain't actually a summer, fits the pattern.

I'll be over here getting unnecessarily irritated. Because of cabin fever. Which people in these parts get during the month of February. They do not and should not be getting cabin fever in June.

*snarl*

Comments

[shakatany.livejournal.com]

Here in NYC it's much the same. I practically have my bagbackpack containing my rain poncho and visor glued to my back and I'm tired of wearing my Crocs or rubber sandals in case it rains. OTOH it's only been in the high 70s and low 80s which is infinitely preferable to the high 80s and 90s that we often get.

Shakatany

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

I don't mind the cool weather, but the cool weather coupled with the incessant rain is just too much.

We probably need to grow gills or something.

[tnrkitect.livejournal.com]

My Rx for you? a leisurely paddle with *bonus* wildlife. ;-)

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

I've only been managing to get in the kayak once a week due to the horrible weather.

And for that reason and that reason alone I'm probably in better shape than most of my co-workers. I'm at least getting 1.5 to 3 hours of sun a week (granted using SPF 50 UVA/UVB sunblock...but still).

Truthfully, though, I'm going out of my gourd because I've got so much energy. Most of my co-workers are pretty much looking at me like I'm nuts because I'm climbing the walls.

[rileysaplank.livejournal.com]

So it's you that's been having Scotlands June while we were having the hottest June on record.

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

I've totally felt the cabin fever in the past few weeks, along with a bit of SAD. I may not like to lay out in the sun, but I at least like to see it!

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

Here in Austin, I've been desperately grateful for yesterday and today's rain, after more than a week of 100+ temperatures (after weeks of 90+).

Stupid climate change. It makes everyone miserable.

[4thdixiechick.livejournal.com]

I know how you feel - it's like I moved to Seattle without actually moving to Seattle.

[herewiss13.livejournal.com]

And if one more person goes, "So much for global warming! Hur! Hur! Hur!" I'm a-gonna smack them.

Snappy comeback: "Do you think the water in these clouds just evaporated itself into the atmosphere without help?"

Come to think of it, though, trying to comprehend the effect of extra heat on the water cycle may be asking a bit too much of such people.

[entrenous88.livejournal.com]

It's been grim, hasn't it? And the rain has done lots of damage in this area. Let's hope we get a little sun in the days ahead.

[hpchick.livejournal.com]

It really sucks. It's supposed to continue like this next week.

I heard it's only supposed to be partly cloudy on the 4th. Yay!

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

As a gardener, I didn't need a newspaper to tell me the obvious. It's been so cool that my asters and my sedum (both August bloomers) are flowering.

[hendrikboom.livejournal.com]

Dating back to sometime in the third century AD, there is a Latin text describing the Year of No Sun. In that time, the text explains, there was no sun, only a brown thing in the sky that gave minimal light and no heat. There were massive crop failures.

For a long time, historians have wondered what this event was, and have interpreted it as being a symbolic reference to something or other.

But more recent historians have found texts with similar contents from China and elsewhere. So it looks as if it was a real, world-wide event.

The ensuing famines are considered by some to be the cause of the fall of the Roman Empire, and to have initiated mass migrations, invasions, and political instability that outlasted the brown sun for a considerable time.

I wish, I wish I knew where I heard about this.

[lostakasha.livejournal.com]

We're getting into some 30 Days of Night territory here, and it's insane. My other half is huddled under her SAD treatment light, too.

We sat on the screen porch this morning with our coffee, bundled up in cords and sweats, embracing the horror. (We consoled each other by saying we could have been down the Cape fighting off the mosquitoes. It, uh, didn't provide much consolation...)

Hang in there!

SAD light

[hendrikboom.livejournal.com]

It's been a while since you posted about the SAD light. Has its benefits held over time, or was it a flash-in-the-pan? Do the batteries give out after a few years? Or are they easily replaceable?