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Some times of space. 1 Some times of space Doreen Massey Expectations The
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Some times of space
Doreen Massey
Expectations
The most predictable remark you can make about the weather concerns, of course, its
unpredictability. James Gleick tells a story about the beginnings of understanding
‘chaos' in which meteorology is central:
Clouds represented a side of nature that the mainstream of physics had passed by,
a side that was at once fuzzy and detailed, structured and unpredictable Â… For as
long as the world has had physicists inquiring into the laws of nature, it has suffered
a special ignorance about disorder in the atmosphere Â…
As the revolution in chaos runs its course, the best physicists find themselves
returning without embarrassment to phenomena on a human scale. They study not
just galaxies but clouds.1
And it is indeed odd that in a world where there is instantaneous communication,
journeyings to other planets, genetic manipulation – in other words the most incredible
technological wizardry and control – you can still walk out of the house and quite
unexpectedly get totally drenched from head to foot.
There is a house I visit often, in southern France. This region of northern Catalonia,
lying between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, between the Pyrennees and the
Cevennes, is at the mercy of the winds. Each wind has a name: Vent de Alt, Gregal,
Levant, Migjorn, Tramuntana Â… The kind of weather the district receives depends on
which of these is blowing through at any given hour. Each brings a distinctive
temperature, rainfall (or lack of it), humidity, even quality of light. The violent storms of
the Tramuntana, the fierce cold in the mountains to the south, the clear dryness of the
Mediterranean: each of these also varies by season. A small shift in the configuration of
the ever-mobile weather system and you have...
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