+ Locke 1 minute rain ?

[yung23]

Any thoughts on Locke and knowing it was going to rain in a minute ?
I can tell sometimes, but not to the second... maybe its just stronger on the island. Maybe he's noticed a cycle already.
The same day repeats ?
unlike Groundhog day, the people live another day, just the same weather and such repeat.. ?

[Wynter Zera]

The smell. Rain smells and the humidity changes. I can tell when rain is coming. Exactly? Well, experience maybe. I mean the guy can throw knives. Learning to predict rain isn't that hard.

[sawyerhasbestlines]

The rain was weird and this is why. In "reality" we would have heard the rain hitting the leaves and trees next to them first, before it poured down on them.

But instead - it was like Locke "decided" to turn the rain on himself like a shower.

Reminds me now of how other people have been talking about Walt willing the dice.

[leftofpunk]

I can usually predict to the hour...a good clue is if (during the spring/summer) you can see more of the backs of the leaves instead of the fronts. I don't know what causes it, but that's something I've noticed. The smell is a big one, especially with a storm.

i know places like florida and islands in that area you just know when it'll rain because it does it the same time everyday. Even when I was in colorado it seemed to rain at exactly 3:45 everyday.

[Wynter Zera]

leftofpunk, I can second that. In tropical climates rain often has very predictable patterns. Think rain forests.

Also, it can come out of nowhere. I've seen rain in the middle of sunny day with almost no clouds.

[drabauer]

leftofpunk, I lived in Colorado for a year and I noticed exactly the same thing: 3:45 almost every day (East of the divide).

No, Locke smelt it--you sense the barometric pressure within several hours of a storm, but when you smell the rain it's coming within minutes.

[Hawkmistress]

Locke knows now how to communicate with the island (or rather the wish-granting Entity living on the island, like maybe an alien whose spaceship crashed there), to get it to grant his wishes. So he wished for the Island Entity to stop the rain just like he ....

... wished for the return of Charlie's guitar
... wished for the return of Walt's dog (the dog whistle was just a decoy to deceive the others)
... wished for a lot of the pigs he keeps trapping and bringing home to the caves to feed the survivors

He didn't learn how to communicate on purpose with the Entity until AFTER he got his legs back, WHEN he met it face-to-face in the jungle.

The Island Entity grants other people's wishes too, but they haven't learned how to communicate with it intentionally the way Locke has, so the others' wish-granting is confused and sometimes influenced by their subconscious needs/guilts/fears.

[AlwaysLost]

so like... jack has communicated with the island, but he doesnt know how... or even know that he has communicated with the island... but he brought charlie back from the dead... i agree that anyone can communicate, and that locke is the only one that knows that he is doing it, and how to do it

[rottenralf]

Maybe, just maybe...that since they could clearly see the mountains in the background, that Locke saw the edge of the rain approaching and knew, by the speed of approaching leading edge of rain, that they were going to get wet in about a minute.
In the Adirondacks, they have a weather stone they hang by their door, if it is wet, it's raining, if it is white, it's snowing, if it is swinging, it's windy, etc. It may not be doplar radar, but it works.

[Chance Gardener]

Well, if you listen I think you can hear the rain coming. Though I am more for the smelling it and seeing it coming against the mountains reasons first.

But I do think you can hear it coming, at least 30 seconds before it hits.

[cccourt]

I agree: you can tell when it is going to rain...within a minute or several. Due to the show he had to say ONE minute. Smell, wind, sound...easy in those climates too.
ccc

[Rene]

I got the feeling that he has found some sort of pattern, or some clue beyond sights, sounds and smells. Basically because of the way he said it would rain in one minute, he was so sure and exact.

[Flamehead911]

i think we all think too much, i think we all think to complicated, i know little details can mean a lot, but sometimes i think we think too much. but, yeah, about the rain, do any of u rember in the movie DareDevil (Ben Affleck) when he was at the top of the building with Elektra (Jennifer Garner) he sensed the rain coming almost to the exact second too. he was blind though and his senses did get stronger, i think Locke might of just had strong senses to. i think they just said that to show how good he was with the outdoors and how strong his senses were. all the theorists have a tendency to take every little detail and turn it into a huge theory, not that i have a problem with that cuz it makes for good reading lol. :b

[yung23]

when I posted this, I answered my own question at the same time, I never thought it would gain this much .

lock the damn post

[vonnegut]

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