A casual conversation with a friend recently left me with an odd discovery about my personal weather memories growing up in Alabama.
I do not possess any hot-weather memories. After being born in Baton Rouge, I lived near Birmingham through my first 11 birthdays, long enough to have known what hot weather was all about. But my Alabama weather memories of heat are nonexistent.
I remember pleasant spring days, mild winter days, heavy rains, and cold. Actually, most of my Southern weather memories involve unusually cold weather. One of the great joys of my youth was to slide on frozen rain puddles in winter.
Perhaps my memory of hot weather is blank because the constant heat in summer left me with nothing outstanding to remember. I mean, when it is 95 all summer long, a couple of days at 100 might not be enough to create a piercing memory.
Had I been raised in Fargo-Moorhead, I suspect my weather memories of youth would involve all kinds of weather because all our seasons are so variable.
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