Nope. Never.

[mangosteen]

So, the current weather in Boston (and NYC, from all reports) is absolutely gorgeous. Clear, dry, mid-to-high 60s (19-21 C), late summer into early fall, etc.

A friend of mine recently called it "WTC weather."

I never made that connection before, yet they are absolutely right.

Dammit.

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[marrus.livejournal.com]

Jeebus, that's horrible. And accurate. At least here it's in the mid-80s & rainy every day.

Oh, shit. Katrina weather.

Bitchslap your friend for me?

*blink*

[avivasedai.livejournal.com]

I do think it's really nice outside. It hadn't occurred to me either to associate the weather with a day on which this kind of weather happened, either. There have been too many days in between. I admit, I first remember the emotional content, then the images, from that calamity, more than the weather. It was more backdrop than foreground.

Re: *blink*

[sweh.livejournal.com]

The weather impacted me a little 'cos I had to walk from Wall St to Brooklyn Museum across the Brooklyn Bridge. I remember it was sunny and hot, and when we got to the other side of the bridge all the offices along there had brought out their water coolers and stuff and had set up roadside tables and were giving out water to us as we trudged by. I thought that a wonderful showing.

Re: *blink*

[avivasedai.livejournal.com]

That was a really good thing to do. I stayed at work until the lettered subway lines were running, then took the E from Long Island City to the A to the Bronx, then a bus home, so I missed all the Manhattan aspects. When the power went out in the Northeast, then I saw people giving away water and grilling outside and all that. New York is a pretty great place in times of larger emergencies.

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

And the barometric pressure is over 30! Yay!

We only had eleven weeks below! It's over for at least the next four days!

I am ridiculously bouncy about this.

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Bright, clear fall days have had this tiny creeping horror sensation associated with them ever since. :(

(Edit: not, you know, to the extent that I'm no longer able to enjoy gorgeous fall weather or anything. It's just there.)

[mangosteen]

not, you know, to the extent that I'm no longer able to enjoy gorgeous fall weather or anything. It's just there.

Yeah. That.

[geoffroi.livejournal.com]

yeah, me too.

[fangirl715.livejournal.com]

I heard that they've been calling it "9/11 weather" pretty much since 2002 at least--I remember walking around Central Square that day, thinking just how beautiful a day it was, and how quiet, with no planes at all overhead. And it's some of my favorite weather, too...*sigh*

[library-sexy.livejournal.com]

I had not thought about it, but this is not a link I personally make to the day. Thinking about it now, yes the link is there, but the weather was not something that made an impression on me that day.

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

*sigh* Yeah.

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

I totally knew exactly what you meant as soon as you said it, I was in NJ, not far from NY at the time and the weather was so surreally beautiful on that day. The brilliant sun and blue sky. It was a storybook-weather day. And the man-made horrors of it felt even worse, I think, because of it.

Yeah, the weather was a huge part of the memory. I guess after being in England for 2, going on 2 Septembers, I haven't seen that sort of weather very often lately. But I will never, ever forget it.

[missionista.livejournal.com]

I pretty much always look up into a crisp blue sky these days, and think, hmmm, "wonder what will happen today?"

Lest we get ahead of ourselves...

[c1.livejournal.com]

Don't forget it was snowing on 26 February, 1993 when the *first* bombing of WTC happened.
Really, the weather is immaterial when it comes time to punch your card.

[mizarchivist]

Yep. I haven't actively thought about that so far this year, but I have on other years. Part of my residual anger about the tragedy is that they stole the innocence from my favorite weather. The survivors (meaning all of us/U.S.) will have that in the backs of our heads, but the younger generations, thank the gods, will not.

I wonder if our parents remember what the weather was like when JFK was shot.

[rosefox]

Ouch. Yeah.

Now I'm remembering the "Wish You Were Here" Village Voice cover, the bright blue sky...

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

I consider myself fortunate to have been so young that I don't remember much of anything about that day. (I had just turned eleven.) Also, of course, I didn't live anywhere near NYC, so the weather wouldn't have been relevant to me in any case.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I wish I could un-read that.

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

wow, that's an entire subscription of back issues on tells and damages.

i wonder what hiroshima weather is like? pearl harbor? etc.

i DO remember that 9/12 was perfect surfing weather, and i was out, with a lot of others, remembering a local surfer who died the day before on one of those plans. it was a beautiful day to remember a friend.

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[c1.livejournal.com]

ISTR that the crew of Bocks Car had to select Nagasaki as an alternate target because it was cloudy over their primary target. Supposedly it was pretty cloudy over Normandy beach as well on D-Day.

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

what was the weather like in DC that day?

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[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Wow. I didn't step outside until probably 2-3pm… at that point, the weather was a lovely change from the living room.

I don't have that association, and I'm happy about that.

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

The weather never makes that connection for me, but traffic does. I was driving to work on a client job-site that morning, and the streets were totally empty, and I thought that maybe it was another one of those holidays I never know is happening. I tried to call someone and the cell network was busy. Now whenever the streets are unusually quiet, or I try two or three times to get a phone line and can't get one, I wonder what the hell is going on. Too many good and bad things have happened in the past fourty years on beautiful days like this, for that connection to be the strongest for me.

[thanos73.livejournal.com]

Wow, tell your friend to relax a little. WTC was hotter than today.

[tayefeth.livejournal.com]

9/11 was both warmer than today and more unseasonably warm than today. If anything, today was unseasonably cool. I wore jeans, because it was too cool for shorts this morning...

Mostly this weather makes me wonder if the weather deities are saving the 99F days for September, when I'm trying to, you know, teach.

[awfief.livejournal.com]

I was in Israel; the weather was so much different then. In a way I'm glad I don't have that association.

[danger-chick.livejournal.com]

Sky so blue that it could break your heart, but that's normal out here.

I had already thought about that, but it's sort of a natural thought at this time of the year.

[srl.livejournal.com]

I was riding my bike across the Manhattan Bridge this morning thinking the very same thing--- though it was later in the morning than 8:45, so a bit warmer. But, yeah. I was on my bike That Morning too, on the way to work.

[pisicutsa.livejournal.com]

I kind of wish you hadn't posted that since I never thought about it and now I will. I've been doing really well not thinking about it yet but yeah... urm... yeah.

I am not looking forward to how I'll feel in a few weeks till 9/12.

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

There's a certain weather pattern that I feel to be earthquake weather. Sometimes they don't happen, sometimes they do.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah.

Of course, my gallows humor just kicked in. "It's 69 and clear in Central Park, with a 30 percent chance of falling buildings..."

[gedalia.livejournal.com]

no clouds on the 11th, there were clouds yesterday.

[melopoeia.livejournal.com]

Didn't notice the weather that day myself. But what always punches me in the stomach is tornado weather, even out here where they don't really get tornados. When it gets dark really fast, and the sky sort of turns green.

Then you think about basements and power failures.