After the past few months of bitterly cold weather pushing into historically "safe" southern climes, I've come to the conclusion that my litany of seasons needs to allow for a fifth season.
Pre-Summer, Summer, Post-Summer, and Christmas do not allow for the inhuman conditions that have been visited on us during the early months of two consecutive years.
I had counted on January, February, and March of 2010 being a fluke, but with early 2011 bringing a repeat performance I am forced to acknowledge weather patterns just might be changing.
But what to name that fifth season? I have been struggling with that for several weeks now. The season of Hibernation was a forerunner possibility, but since human kind can't just bar the doors for weeks at a time, it wasn't really the best fit.
Then a friend came to visit this weekend, remarked on the welcome warm weather, and commented that walking out the door into forty degree temperatures is like waking from a nightmare.
And there it was - the name of the fifth season. Nightmare. What better way to describe the bone chilling wind and life threatening snow and ice that have plagued us the past few weeks. I fear recent days are but a brief waking from Nightmare, but ultimately Pre-Summer will prevail.
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I believe that Nightmare should be a "subseason." It occurs unpredictably and is scattered. On these grounds "Christmas" should be changed to "Chrismas/Nigtmare." On the good days, the season shall be Christmas and on the bad days, it will be Nightmare.
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