Baby, it’s cold outside!
By Kayla Rudd |
We are getting closer to the end of the year and the weather is making its rounds of changing. The temperatures are getting cooler, nights are getting longer, and days are getting shorter.
Ground is wet from the rain this morning. Gray clouds hang overhead. Photo by Kayla Rudd.
The weather can affect sickness, the type of clothes people wear, the music they listen to and the moods of students.
“We are starting to see more kids who have asthma come into the nurses’ office because of the constant weather changes, it triggers their allergies,” said nurse Jenee Cole.
Looking around campus on a day to day basis there are many students huddled together trying to keep warm or walking around with boots and sweaters on also trying to keep warm.
“I’m getting sicker, because the weather keeps changing from hot to cold to hot to cold again so quickly,” said junioe Terence Baker.
In the cooler weather people like to listen to different types of music to either match the weather or to match their moods.
“I tend to listen to more country music because when it’s cold I like to go hang out on my uncle’s ranch,” said sophomore Lauren Violet Ashelin.
The amount of sunlight affects all living organisms.
“The more sun there is the more alert and happy we feel,” said DATA science teacher Anna Pape.
This is even true in the plant community. It’s why grass goes brown and trees lose their leaves. Plants use the amount of available sunlight for photosynthesis. The more sunlight there is the plants absorb more light and undergo more photosynthesis on the sunny days.
Yet, there’s always the exception to the rule.
“I tend to sleep less when its colder and there is less sunlight because I like to be outside with my friends,” said sophomore Daysha Sanchez.