In order to investigate the tendency in rainfall amount in Calabria (southern Italy), in this work, monthly rainfall series were first tested for homogeneity and then a trend analysis was performed. In particular, a homogenization approach based on the Climatol method was applied to homogenize monthly climatological series. Then, the Mann–Kendall non-parametric test and the Theil–Sen estimator were applied to evaluate the presence of trends and their significance in the monthly, seasonal and annual rainfall series. Moreover, the trend slopes were further evaluated with a linear regression analysis. At the annual scale, results evidenced a decreasing trend mainly in the north-eastern part of the region. At the seasonal scale, a spatial distributed negative trend in winter, and a positive trend in summer, mainly localized in the north-western part of the region, were identified. Finally, on a monthly scale negative trends spreading across the region were detected in January and December, with an opposite behavior in July and especially in September, when almost the entire region presented a positive trend.

An Archive of Feelings is, in a sense, about a shift in American political narratives, and a movement away from the notion that the proper end of social movements is 'liberation' (from silence, secrecy, self-loathing) to an understanding of social movements as complex cultural constructions, offering alternative ways of seeing rather than promising redemption. This shift is partly a generational one: the first leaders of the gay/lesbian liberation movement, possessing the boundless optimism and entitlement of the baby boom generation, imagined that the logical end result of 'coming out' was the end of shame, secrecy, and melancholy; today's progressive intellectuals harbor few of these hopes or illusions. Queer theorists such as Eve Sedgwick reclaim shame as the basis of sexual identity formation, and Judith Butler calls on us to reimagine the political uses of melancholy-signs of a movement that is moving into middle age, and a historical moment in which unprecedented public queer visibility cohabits with conservative hegemony, when the old narratives of 'progress' and 'liberation' have lost their sheen, and when American baby boomers, now in middle age, find their faith in unbounded possibility tempered by loss and a new appreciation of their own mortality. The movement to construct and reimagine history in relation to trauma, affirmed by Cvetovich and others, has the potential to produce a critical American studies that places slavery, lynching, harrassment, AIDS, and other catastrophes at the center. Viewing history from the perspective of its victims is indeed a necessary corrective to triumphalist visions of the past (and present). An Archive of Feelings makes an articulate, impassioned case for the importance of understanding how trauma animates queer subjectivities and mobilizes queer communities. But whether this emphasis upon victimhood, and the search for ethical purity associated with it, should or could be an end in itself remains unanswered.