{"id":10281,"date":"2022-09-11T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/?p=10281"},"modified":"2023-06-28T12:12:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T18:12:37","slug":"on-thunderstorms-emotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/11\/on-thunderstorms-emotions\/","title":{"rendered":"On Thunderstorms &#038; Emotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;text-align: center;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Email\",\"Print\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"big\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"bxwretlind\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"On%20Thunderstorms%20%26%20Emotion\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While I haven&#8217;t yet written a post on thunderstorms and emotions, there is one on <a href=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/12\/on-clouds-and-emotion\/\">clouds and emotions<\/a>. They are not the same. However, I can refer back to the story I told within that first post in order to paint a better picture for this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When you were a child playing on the soccer field with your child buddies and saw a cloud in the distance that was spitting lightning, you may have notified the coach (who should have been paying attention) and let them know there was a looming danger. That\u2019s <strong>anxiety<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When that same cloud moves over your soccer field and all of you are safe inside the park\u2019s communal restroom (where it stinks), that same lightning carries with it booming thunder that crashes all around you and makes it impossible to talk to one another. Then the rain falls, usually in buckets, and the noise on the tin roof of the restroom drowns out even the thunder. Here you might be <strong>excited<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then, far off in the distance, you hear the warble of a tornado warning. Suddenly the torrential rainfall that\u2019s above you is not nearly so exciting. You are now <strong>frightened<\/strong>, hoping that tornado doesn\u2019t fall from the sky and take out the restroom in which you and your buddies thought you were safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the rains let up and the thunderstorm moves on, you step outside. Here you may be <strong>relaxed<\/strong>, but at the same time <strong>jittery<\/strong>. You may think another storm is coming, and that\u2019s probably right. Your heart may be racing, your palms sweaty and even though you joke with those around you, in reality, you all are <strong>thankful <\/strong>you are still alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The coach\u2019s car has been flipped over, however, and that both <strong>surprises <\/strong>you and fills you with <strong>a sense of awe <\/strong>at the raw power contained in a single storm.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Naturally here, I was referring to the thunderstorm, that way nature attempts to restore balance to an unstable atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;s that you say? Restore balance? Unstable atmosphere? Yes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The way nature uses thunderstorms to restore balance to an unstable atmosphere is akin to the way a plot is intended to resolve a conflict. You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/03\/the-thunderstorm-story-model\/\">use the stages of a thunderstorm to develop your plot<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I ran my <a href=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/11\/a-little-experiment-with-weather-emotions\/\">experiment on weather and emotions<\/a>, I did not specifically call out thunderstorms. Rather, I decided to group them in with extreme weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The below radar graph superimposed on Robert Plutchik\u2019s Wheel of Emotions, shows how participants in the survey responded to images of extreme weather (most of which were, in fact, thunderstorms).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Extreme_radar.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Extreme_radar.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16078\" width=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Extreme_radar.png 960w, https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Extreme_radar-297x300.png 297w, https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Extreme_radar-768x777.png 768w, https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Extreme_radar-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As you might expect, the emotions most associated with thunderstorms (extreme weather) were <strong>terror<\/strong>, <strong>fear <\/strong>and <strong>apprehension<\/strong>. <strong>Vigilance <\/strong>and a little <strong>rage <\/strong>came in second. There was also a little <strong>sadness<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s a better look at the distribution of emotions.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Extreme_mapped.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Extreme_mapped-1024x743.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16081\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Extreme_mapped-1024x743.png 1024w, https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Extreme_mapped-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Extreme_mapped-768x557.png 768w, https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Extreme_mapped.png 1425w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What does this tell us? Thunderstorms within the narrative can increase those particular emotions or at least mirror those emotions that are present in the characters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We know this. Thunderstorms are often used for effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Here are a few literary examples:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The thunderstorm in <em>King Lear<\/em> by William Shakespeare mirrors his own descent into madness. That madness triggers <strong>terror <\/strong>in others as well as <strong>apprehension<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LEAR<br>Blow winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow!<br>You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout<br>Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks.<br>You sulph\u2019rous and thought-executing fires,<br>Vaunt-couriers of oak-cleaving thunderbolts,<br>Singe my white head. And thou, all-shaking thunder,<br>Strike flat the thick rotundity o\u2019 th\u2019 world.<br>Crack nature\u2019s molds, all germens spill at once<br>That makes ingrateful man.<\/p>\n<cite>King Lear, Act 3, scene 2<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A thunderstorm in the short story &#8220;The Storm&#8221; by Kate Chopin (1898) rages on as two lovers act on their desires. It is the comforting of the <strong>fear <\/strong>that Calixta has which prompts this act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Calixta,&#8221; he said, &#8220;don&#8217;t be frightened. Nothing can happen. The house is too low to be struck, with so many tall trees standing about. There! aren&#8217;t you going to be quiet? say, aren&#8217;t you?&#8221; He pushed her hair back from her face that was warm and steaming. Her lips were as red and moist as pomegranate seed. Her white neck and a glimpse of her full, firm bosom disturbed him powerfully. As she glanced up at him the fear in her liquid blue eyes had given place to a drowsy gleam that unconsciously betrayed a sensuous desire. He looked down into her eyes and there was nothing for him to do but to gather her lips in a kiss. It reminded him of Assumption.<\/p>\n<cite>&#8220;The Storm&#8221; by Kate Chopin (1898)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We can&#8217;t ignore <em>Wuthering Heights<\/em> by Emily Bront\u00eb. Storms are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">all over<\/span> the book. When a storm rages the night Heathcliff runs away, Nelly narrates:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAbout midnight, while we still sat up, the <strong>storm<\/strong> came rattling over the Heights in full fury. There was a <strong>violent wind<\/strong>, as well as <strong>thunder<\/strong>, and either one or the other split a tree off at the corner of the building: a huge bough fell across the roof, and knocked down a portion of the east chimney-stack, sending a clatter of stones and soot into the kitchen-fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<cite>From <em>Wuthering Heights<\/em> by <em>Emily Bront\u00eb<\/em> (1847)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s hard not to see the fear, terror, apprehension, awe, and even submission in that example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>And now the Science!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When using thunderstorms in your narrative, pay attention to the proper development (er, the meteorology of your book).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thunderstorms can be broken down into 3 stages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the <strong>Cumulus Stage<\/strong>, you see the happy cloud. Moisture and air is drawn up toward what\u2019s called the \u201cconvective condensation level\u201d where clouds form. If there is enough instability in the air, the parcels continue to rise, the moisture continues to condense, and the clouds get bigger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the <strong>Mature Stage<\/strong>, what goes up, must come down. The rising air has pushed our happy cloud to the limit and it peeks above the freezing level. As ice crystals high within the cloud flow up and down in the turbulent air, they crash into each other. Small negatively charged electrons are knocked off some ice and added to other ice as they crash past each other, separating the positive and negative charges of the clouds. When the top of the cloud becomes positively charged and the base of the cloud becomes negatively charged&#8211;<em>boom<\/em>&#8211;lightning flashes. Moisture droplets merge and form hail which is then sucked up and down within the cloud. As the hail falls below the freezing level, it melts and rain falls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More stuff happens, and tornados come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally, when all the downward motions overtakes the upward motion, the thunderstorm moves into the <strong>Dissipating Stage<\/strong>. Rain continues to fall, the cloud falls apart, and it\u2019s pretty much over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In order for all of this to happen, three elements are needed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>moisture<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>instability, and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a lifting mechanism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One way to create instability is to place cold air (which sinks because it\u2019s heavy) over warm air (which rises because it\u2019s lighter). The cold over warm creates an atmospheric COW. Because the atmosphere is always trying to maintain a certain equilibrium, violent things must happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is what I mean when I said earlier that <strong>thunderstorms are nature&#8217;s attempts to restore balance to an unstable atmosphere<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s that instability you want to use in your fiction. Most likely, you already have it: your conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Learn more in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3PA7IBj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Creating Atmosphere with Atmosphere: How to Use Weather as a Literary Device<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3PA7IBj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/CAWA_ad.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19927\" width=\"400\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/CAWA_ad.jpg 800w, https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/CAWA_ad-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/CAWA_ad-768x595.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/tstms_and_emotion_pin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/tstms_and_emotion_pin-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/tstms_and_emotion_pin-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/tstms_and_emotion_pin-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/tstms_and_emotion_pin-720x1080.jpg 720w, https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/tstms_and_emotion_pin.jpg 735w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;text-align: center;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Email\",\"Print\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"big\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"bxwretlind\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"On%20Thunderstorms%20%26%20Emotion\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The way nature uses thunderstorms to restore balance to an unstable atmosphere is akin to the way a plot is intended to resolve a conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,15],"tags":[157,12],"class_list":["post-10281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather","category-writing-2","tag-weather","tag-writing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6.1 (Yoast SEO v27.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>On Thunderstorms &amp; Emotion - Benjamin X. 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