Stormy Weather

[Serial_Apologist]

Heavy showers on the way to work this morning: clear skies, bright sunshine now - one might almost think it were Summer!

There are compensations to be had: when it's not raining the atmosphere is washed clean, so none of that pollution-borne haze that is axiomatic with summer heat. And nature just smells wonderful after rain, especially at evenings.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

And nature just smells wonderful after rain, especially at evenings.

[BBMmk2]

a bit of a mixed bag today.Summer?

[Anna]

I woke up before 7am to cloudless blue sky and a brilliant sun. I briefly wondered about donning something rather more Summery than my trusty waterproof before leaving the house, just as well I erred on the side of caution as the wind was chill and then a sudden violent shower. However, the rest of the day has been reasonable and dry although now the rain is sweeping in from the SW. I do agree with the lovely smells after rain, plus (if it were possible to sit outside in the evening) the smell of honeysuckle wafting across. I wonder how the bees are coping with all the rain?

[Nick Armstrong]

I briefly wondered about donning something

I misread that as "wandered about..."

[handsomefortune]

i woke to a fine drizzle, the forecast having been a sunny start. then, briefly wandered about in galoshes and souwester...(then left the attic and went downstairs). i warned my mum about grazing cattle and children combined with poisonus bryony alba berries anna. she says thanks very much for that tip, it's good to remember as my dad can be a bit of a boar sometimes.

yesterday, i got drenched, though i did have my brolly. but very nearly wore my favourite sandals - (v chilly in the rain). luckily, my wool cardigan nearly reaches the ground at the back, which saved a pair of beige trousers from getting a filthy backlash, from rushing along in puddles, brolly drip and torrentials. my cardigan is now much longer than it was...but it doesn't matter, only i know, (and dg george entwistle if he's reading).

why does traffic speed up in the rain? - the bleepin idiots. today i helped the economy enormously by panic buying a range of 'unnecessaries' rather than get wet waiting for a pause in traffic so as to cross the road.

which reminds me, my mum was thrilled that 'the guardian' used no censorship in the current coverage of football's 'normal verbals'...in fact, the formal repetition of some normal verbals made her laugh quite uncontrollably. just as well, as the rain belted down, and then pretended it wasn't, presumably so as to catch people out intentionally!

sneezing can be quite pleasant sometimes, but tbh i wouldn't mind smelling some summer, would welcome some axiomatic hazey pollution with open arms. in the interim, i'm submitting my reply under the influence of the vapour from olbas oil instead.

[Anna]

[Nick Armstrong]

then, briefly wandered about

They're all at it!

[mangerton]

It's rained all day here today. Still, in a way we're lucky. Other parts of the country have had it much worse. It's just so depressing, this daily rain.

Miss mangerton kindly got me a lightweight summer jacket for my birthday in March. I've worn it twice. When I was on holiday last month, I didn't get a chance to wear it at all.

[Nick Armstrong]

On-topic and topical Words & Music this Sunday: on the subject of RAIN!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01knw32

[Anna]

On-topic and topical Words & Music this Sunday: on the subject of RAIN!

And Sunday is St. Swithins day (his emblems are apples and raindrops) He was a very good and simple Saint and did Miracles for humble folk (like putting back together broken eggs) but the reason for the rain legend is that he asked to be buried outside the door of Winchester so that the poor could walk across him. On 15 July 971 though, Swithin's remains were dug up from outside and moved to a shrine in the cathedral by Bishop Ethelwold.

However, St. Swithin didn't like being moved and the removal was accompanied by ferocious and violent rain storms that lasted 40 days and 40 nights to indicate his displeasure at being moved. I did think of suggesting to The Dean and Chapter that they put him outside again ......

[Serial_Apologist]

Well folks, for the first time in a couple of months, tentative signs from next week suggest that, once we're out of this next lot of rain, we will be entering a weather regime more typical of our usual middling kind of summers than this utterly disatrous one, up until now. High pressure is expected to move across France from the south-west, rather than bearing down from the colder regions, as has been the case mostly up until now. This change will allow comparatively warm, albeit still moist air to be steered round from a maritime tropical direction, thus bringing temperatures back to what they should be at this time of year, and a more mobile type of weather, in place of low pressure systems settling down for protracted periods right across us.

I am tentatively hopeful.

[amateur51]

Well folks, for the first time in a couple of months, tentative signs from next week suggest that, once we're out of this next lot of rain, we will be entering a weather regime more typical of our usual middling kind of summers than this utterly disatrous one, up until now. High pressure is expected to move across France from the south-west, rather than bearing down from the colder regions, as has been the case mostly up until now. This change will allow comparatively warm, albeit still moist air to be steered round from a maritime tropical direction, thus bringing temperatures back to what they should be at this time of year, and a more mobile type of weather, in place of low pressure systems settling down for protracted periods right across us.

I am tentatively hopeful.

Sensational news, S_A!

[Anna]

Sensational news, S_A!

S_A is usually such a gloomy Eeyore that when he says tentatively we know he's really quite positive so Hurrah!!
I was woken by sunlight streaming through the window and actually ventured out in a lightweight jacket. The fact that it's now tipping it down matters not. We now know it'll get better!!!

[Nick Armstrong]

I am tentatively hopeful.

I am profoundly soaked and frozen

..... having cycled back in the latest lot of ******* **** ******** to sweep across "the South East"

However, just thawing and drying out and your glad tidings are encouraging, S_A