26 Words for Incongruous Weather
Too hot for a jacket, too cold for a T-shirt.
The Inuit have one hundred words for snow.
The Egyptians have fifty words for sand.
I have twenty-six words for that weather where it’s too hot for a jacket but too cold for a T-shirt.
thermalimbo
sweatervoid
sleeve-length purgatory
ambitropicalism
mid-season drift
tepid twilight
layering-seesaw
liminal chill
two-season tango
polythermal perplexity
coat-no-coat conundrum
wild-mild
thermostalgia
cardigan carousel
sweat n’shiver
equinoctial hesitation
garment-argument
midweather malaise
chillusion
climatangle
ambiclimax
mildentity crisis
garment gamble
ambiguity-core
autumnoyance
no man’s land traditional costume
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This should be a poll. Not sure if I’d vote for “thermalimbo” or “chillusion.”
Luis’s pieces are my favorite too!