Atmospheric Personalities

They’ve named a hurricane after me, my husband says and he sounds proud. It was only a tropical storm this morning, he adds, but I’m sure it’s a hurricane now.

We Google his atmospheric namesake and learn that tropical storm Erica has already stolen his thunder. Danny is nothing but a “weak and disorganized cyclone with minimal impact.”

Looking disappointed, he suggests we search for my name. We do and meet tropical storm Claire from 1969, a depression.

Weak and disorganized, my husband says. That’s me.

A depression, I say.

We turn the computer off and let the evening wind down.