"what is the word for when the weather reflects your mood"

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Stormy Weather Lyrics

Don’t know why
There’s no sun up in the sky
Stormy weather
Since my man and I ain’t together
Keeps raining all the time

Life is bare
Gloom and misery everywhere
Stormy weather
Just can’t get my poor self together
I’m weary all the time... the time...
So weary all the time

When he went away
The blues walked in and met me
If he stays away
Old rocking chair’ll get me
All I do is pray
That the lord above will let me
Walk in the sun once more...

Can’t go on
Everything I had is gone
Stormy weather
Since my man and I ain’t together
Keeps raining all the time
Keeps raining all the time

I walk around heavy-hearted and sad
Night comes around, and I'm still feelin' bad
Rain pourin' down, blinding every hope I had
This pitterin', patterin', beatin' and splatterin'
Dri-ives me mad!
Love! love...
Love! love...
This misery... is just... too much... for me...

Can’t go on!
Everything I had is gone!
Stormy weather
Since my man and I ain’t together
Keeps raining all the time
Keeps raining all the time

I'm thinking it's got to have synesthe (feeling) or synchrony (time) in the word. So I'm headed that way.

BTW it's not synesthesia, but I did have a lovely time reading about it this evening.



Joe

found this link... where it says "seasonal affective disorder (S.A.D..) "

take a look!

http://sleepdisorders.about.com/cs/sad/a/sadsyndrome.htm

We know about SAD, read the post above about the funeral and see if you think it fits the context of this question.



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I'm beginning to think that the priest invented this word! I'm having no luck on my search...

SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) is the only expression that springs readily to this mind.

Mac- if there isn't a word for it, then there should be!

Is it perhaps the word "lowering" as in "lowering skies" (low pronounced as in loud)?

What about "attuned"? As in, "the mood is attuned to the weather".

Trying to figure this out is keeping me awake at night!

Ack. I do believe I will shortly be wishing I'd never seen this thread...

It's hovering just beyond conscious thought...

Will certainly come back if I can think of it, but I'm not optimistic.

It is indeed one of those threads.... I'll ask my mom, the english major, this weekend.

Oo, crisscross, I like attuned. Could be right. Feels right.

I thought for a moment it might be attenuated, but then I looked it up and it means 'to make thinner' but I've never used it that way. I thought mean 'in tune with'


Side thought: maybe it's brillig. :wink: :wink: :wink:

Joe

Sometimes 'portentous' is used in this way, but it connotes a future event.

1. Of the nature of or constituting a portent; foreboding: “The present aspect of society is portentous of great change” (Edward Bellamy). 2. Full of unspecifiable significance; exciting wonder and awe: “Such a portentous and mysterious monster roused all my curiosity” (Herman Melville). 3. Marked by pompousness; pretentiously weighty.

'Lowering' is a good one.

Lower ~

VARIANT FORMS: also lour ( lour)
INTRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: low·ered also loured, low·er·ing, lour·ing, low·ers, lours
1. To look angry, sullen, or threatening. See synonyms at frown. 2. To appear dark or threatening, as the sky.
NOUN: 1. A threatening, sullen, or angry look. 2. A dark and ominous look: the lower of thunderheads.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English louren.

sorry i haven't responded but to those that are insistant on the "word" having to do with strormy weather or blue skies need to think outside of the box it also can be feeling good on a sunny day. so that is why there is a word that encompases both not only the blue skies but the clear sunny days as well!

Such a word (in English) may exist, but I do not know it.

Sorry.

I've got it! I'm sure of it.

The word is.......

BAROMETER!!!!

emchugh, please, please say that this is correct. It has to be because the search for this word is driving me crazy!
Chris

Somebody ask Noddy. She knows just about everything about the language

Anyway, I wouldn't mind sitting in on a good skirmish between those two skeletons.

Barometer could work, but in a slightly different context.

(roger, I know, I keep thinking emchugh is Noddy and then I wonder WHAT happened to her punctuation...! :-D)