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In some places, the weather is small talk; a topic to politely fill the time or chat with a stranger. Elsewhere the weather is a force that stops you in your tracks and reshapes the pattern of your day. For Serge J-F. Levy, the weather in his adopted hometown Tucson, Arizona, spun him into making a 180-degree turn. “I first came to Arizona at the end of July, 12 years ago, and there were these torrential downpours. I was driving across a bridge and there were people lined up gawking down into the wash,” he recounts. “At the time, I was very judgmental, thinking: ‘oh come on, what’s going on?’ And of course, now, I am the one gawking at these phenomenal openings of the sky.”
