The sun seems to be directly overhead. Even a sundial doesn't cast much of a shadow. Walking across campus, it seems everywhere you turn there is a tableau that looks like a page from the catalogue. Teachers are taking their classes outdoors. Various couples plan the fate of the world as they lounge on the grass.
Photos show a sky that is completely cloudless.
If we knew who first used the analogy of an inverted blue porcelain bowl, we could say where we found that metaphor to appropriate. In the midwest, the rivers are threatening to overflow their banks and levies. The raging hormones in the young people seem to be matching the rivers' exuberance. Logging on to the Internet is like trying to fire up the '68 Chevy DOA News Team van when the charge in the battery has been depleted. The Internet is down.