These are kinda nifty. But just dangerous enough to need containment. Nicely done.
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Unless I'm missing something here, this is pretty boring.
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I may have been too subtle about it, but I was also trying to imply that the jars themselves aren't the concern so much as the fact that there is apparently a process to bottle weather that is simple enough for an ordinary person to perform in their own home with materials available as early as the 1920s, and that this process has been known to at least 4 different people (including the woman who had a heart attack when her home was invaded).
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Hm… I get that part now, and it's a good thought, but it's still not doing a whole lot for me.
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I just added an addendum about what happens when more than one are opened at the same time. Does that help?
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A bit. It's not boring any more, but the concept doesn't catch me enough to upvote. I'll leave it at no vote.
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The year is when it was made? It seems weird everyone who makes the stuff would label it with masking tape on the lid, in the format "weather, year". Is there some convention for labelling canned goods?
My grandmother and her sister used to can jams and jellies (not the inspiration for this, by the way) and would always put a sticker label on the jar with the flavor and usually the month & year it was canned. That way they could use the older stuff first. There's no global convention that I know of, but something like that makes sense to me, just from an organizational standpoint.
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I like it - I imagine a scene where some D-class is moving a bunch of these jars into storage, and drops a dozen or so of them at once, all of them breaking. The realization that the weather will be turning calamitous during the day, possibly within just 7 minutes, would be horrifying. Upvote.
I've seen a very similar concept in "The Night Watch" book - bottled weather patterns. No mention was made about combining them, though.
I was ready to pass this over and move on, and then the first addendum caught me. There's a plus in it for ya.
I know I'm late to the party, but…
This isn't really a horrifying/creepy SCP, I get that. But it seems to me that it would be a little more ominous if the reason there's dates on the labels is the same reason you date preserves — if you don't use them before a spoil date, they could go bad. Now, I'm not sure what "spoiled weather" looks like, but (in the US Northeast) Superstorm Sandy and (in the US South) Hurricane Katrina come to mind. What's more, if it spoils, maybe the weather patterns develop "naturally" — is that storm pattern over the Atlantic a normal Tropical Storm developing, or is Great-aunt June's "Snow in July, 1905" finally starting to turn?
Just my $0.02. Have an upvote!
Now, I have no idea if Drewbear watches Futurama, but I can't help feel that this SCP was taken from, or at least subconsciously influenced by, that show. (Season 6, Episode 4, "Proposition Infinity". Originally aired July 8, 2010)
Plus, you didn't include a bay leaf to impress those damn judges.
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