Historical September 1982 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Everyone complains about the weather in St. Louis so I decided to take an informal survey of neighborhood residents and ask them what they thought was good about the local weather.
One long-time resident said she loves the variety, never knowing whether it will be cold when it’s supposed to be, or hot when it should be.
Another person thought it.was convenient not to have to store your winter clothes.
After all, she said, you might need that sweater in the middle of August.
As a result, she just keeps her clothes in the closets year round and doesn’t bother rotating them.
One man said that betting on the St. Louis weather is much more exciting than Bingo.
He contends that you don’t even have to be the betting sort. Every morning you take your chances when you get up and guess what the climate will be outdoors.
His wife attends regular Bingo sessions, but he claims that over the long haul he has won more money than she. Unfortunately, it’s not financially lucrative because he only bets against himself on paper; he’s never found anyone willing to bet against him on a regular basis.
One resident thought that the best part of living here is experiencing autumn.
He recalled growing up in Kansas and not even noticing when the leaves began to turn.
In Parkview, however, that’s a different story.
The riot of color is beautiful in September and October.
The drawback is that the leaves do fall.
The real asset of St. Louis weather, one visitor said, is that you can talk about it.
In California, where she hails from, you can’t really talk about endlessly sunny days with blue skies and temperatures in the 70s.
She said people often can’t remember the last time it rained. Of course, she did admit that mudslides and earthquakes are not unheard of, but they occur so rarely that they can’t be discussed in daily conversation.
Here it’s entirely different.
Each day is a surprise. Where else, she marveled, could you spend two weeks and have the temperature go from 98 to 50?
She thought that certainly helped make her stay here more interesting.
She could also return to the west coast with a bonanza of weather conversation.
The last person I talked to said the best aspect of St. Louis weather was the relief you felt when you got out of the summer heat and into the air conditioning. Such weather makes you truly grateful and aware of modern technology.
She suggested that if it were not for St. Louis heat, air conditioning might never have been invented, and then what would all those temperature-cooled computers do?
Originally published in The Neighborhood Paper, September 1982.
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