In your magic, are you ever concerned that you could be pulling moisture away from other areas that need it more when you call a storm? Or that you could be sending a storm away to collide and combine with another, making a more powerful one that could hurt that area? Or do you check radar maps and weather patterns to prevent such things from happening?
Hello earthandoceantarot, and first ofall let me say thank you for asking this question; it’s something all peoplewho work with the weather should know.
Weathermagic is a complex art. Yes, witches often dabble in weather magic with varyingresults but in order to become proficient with weather witching you have toknow more than just spells; you have to have a deep understanding ofmeteorology. In other words, you have to understand your environment before youcan manipulate and change it.
Now there are many debates as towhether a person who works with the weather actually creates weather or if they simply move certain types of weather towards them. I am of the personalbelief that weather magic is actually a bit of both. Witches cannot createstorms out of thin air. To form clouds, water particles as well as microscopicparticles of dust are needed. To create a thunderstorm you need a very unstableatmosphere in which warm updrafts will collide with a wall of cold air. Theseconditions cause friction between microscopic particles which results in anelectric charge (lightning).
So let’s say I wanted to bringsome rain. I would begin by examining the current atmospheric conditions and thencommence slightly shifting them to create the ideal conditions for cloudformation. I would then draw the moisture which is already in the air togetherand encourage it to bond together, forming clouds. After, I would call the windto bring more water vapour to where I was. The wind would help drop thetemperature and pick up dust which in turn assists in bonding the cloudstogether.
Depending on the day, where I am,the starting temperature, the amount of water vapour in the sky, the directionof the wind etc. this process usually takes 30 minutes to an hour for clouds tobe covering the sky.
So to answer your question, yes Iam aware of the effects of my actions. I have to be. Am I pulling moisture awayfrom other areas to form a storm? Yes I am. However because I live on the coastof Queensland, I have access to the water from the ocean which evaporates everyday. So, I tend not to pull water vapour away from areas that need it.
As for sending storms away, I don’tsend them away whole if that makessense. I either bind their energy in a bottle or rope (to be used at a laterdate to power another storm) or Idisperse the storm over a wider region. This decreases the intensity andseverity of the storm. In other words I lessen the possible damage the stormcan do.
So yes, I check the radar andweather patterns if I plan to do some big weather magic. For little local bitsof weather magic, I usually don’t bother. I know that what I do fucks withnatural systems. I actively change the weather around me. This change haseffects on the natural environment. So I always try to make things better if Ican. Every time I visit Melbourne to see my Nanna and my Aunts I always try andbring some rain, because every summer Melbourne falls into a drought.
However, with global warmingAustralia (and the rest of the world) has been having hotter temperatures insummer, colder temperatures in winter and the number and severity of storms hasincreased. Where I live gets a lot of tropical storms and cyclones. I do what Ican to minimise the damage and direct the storm so it doesn’t hit densely populatedareas. I bind the energy of the storm and release it when it’s safe.
In my opinion, if someone isserious about learning weather magic they have the moral obligation to not onlybe aware of the natural systems but also the effects their actions can have. Soonce again thank you for asking this question.
