miserable pussy reign
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Friday, 14 June 2019 14:01 (five years ago) link
lol
― John Harris is a Guardian columnist (Tom D.), Friday, 14 June 2019 14:13 (five years ago) link
this BBC guy in Wainfleet is standing next to flooded street and every time he's on camera he says something bewildering:- "it's like looking at a lake, you see the perfect reflections of the houses" : what!?- "270 tons of sandbags! To give you an idea, a polar bear weighs one ton." : WHAT!?
― StanM, Saturday, 15 June 2019 07:15 (five years ago) link
I knew Gove (or "Govey" as a farmer refereed to him on the Farming Today earlier) was promoting an environmental policy to deploy a limited number of beavers to strengthen natural flood defenses, it clearly didn't work. So perhaps now he's trying polar bears?
― calzino, Saturday, 15 June 2019 07:44 (five years ago) link
These local reporters have very few chances to get on national television - particularly if you're stuck out somewhere where nothing happens, like Lincolnshire - so they have to make the most of it in in the (usually vain) hope that they'll impress someone in London who will rescue from a life of reporting on overflowing slurry pits just outside Spalding.
― John Harris is a Guardian columnist (Tom D.), Saturday, 15 June 2019 07:50 (five years ago) link
Fuck's sake. I can only remember one day in the last 20 when it hasn't pissed down. As someone who cycles to and from work in my work clothes and has to leave my bike uncovered all day long, this is stretching my patience. Just checked the forecast and it says it's going to rain continuously from this morning until Sunday evening. Great.
― the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 11 October 2019 07:05 (four years ago) link
this is exactly the thread I'd expect to see this morning, feeling a bit Ill and god does it look grim out there
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 11 October 2019 07:12 (four years ago) link
I can guarantee that it's going to stop raining because I've just bought a new waterproof jacket online.
― just another country (snoball), Friday, 11 October 2019 13:30 (four years ago) link
yeah this is OTT. it's not usually this bad this time of year
― frame casual (dog latin), Friday, 11 October 2019 13:32 (four years ago) link
i haven’t been minding the rain, but that is at least in part because i’ve stopped cycling into work regularly. I would feel a lot closer to NBS’s mood otherwise.
― Fizzles, Friday, 11 October 2019 13:33 (four years ago) link
I'll take a sunny -20 in January over this, thank you very much.
― pomenitul, Friday, 11 October 2019 13:39 (four years ago) link
i remember from my time in poland that -20 is pushing it a bit for me. but clear winter’s days are wonderful. however i do love the autumn damps and fogs.
― Fizzles, Friday, 11 October 2019 14:17 (four years ago) link
I like it as well, there's just a bit too much of it here, and the dearth of stark contrasts is killing me. I suppose it all comes down to habit.
― pomenitul, Friday, 11 October 2019 14:23 (four years ago) link
that’s interesting about the stark contrasts and its true grey skies and dull/coolish/mild days happen all year round. but one of the things i miss about the countryside is the stronger sense of seasonal variation than you get in the city. smell of leaf mulch at this time of year, evaporating dew on early summer mornings, light dustings of snow on iron hard ground. those fogs, mists, drizzles and drears. the slightly brittle sense of warmth and emergent life in spring etc. dead, miserable february and early march.
― Fizzles, Friday, 11 October 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
that's beautiful fizzles and it almost makes me want to live in the countryside
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 11 October 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
Seconded!
I'm halfway there (or so it seems to me), but it's not quite the same.
― pomenitul, Friday, 11 October 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
re. strong contrasts: you get those generally everywhere between the North American coasts. This seems also to be the case in central and eastern Europe, and central Asia as well. I shudder when I look at the weather in Novosibirsk and Kazan; it reminds me too much of South Bend.
I find that strong weather changes lead to people getting sick: from 25C to 5C in a single day isn't that unusual in those places and bodies don't seem to handle it well. I'll take the steadier progressions in more maritime places.
And I have had enough countryside living for one life.
― L'assie (Euler), Friday, 11 October 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
well there's countryside and then there's "ass-fuck middle of nowhere where only nomads would be living if it wasn't for large-scale water transport technology"
― cheese canopy (map), Friday, 11 October 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
we're having some miserable pissy rain here in Austin, TX today, but since it's been non-stop drought conditions in the 90s since July, I can't really complain.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 11 October 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
on days after a cold front moves through the Great Basin stripping the air to a clean, cold, dessicated wind and every detail of the 12-thousand-foot mountains and sagebrush basins is severely visible, being here is faintly terrifying and the giant dodge rams and f-250s on the highway, monuments to waning testosterone, become less laughable and more comforting to me, pathetically enough.
― cheese canopy (map), Friday, 11 October 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
it's the heartbeat of america. it's today's chevrolet.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 11 October 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
womp wommmmp
― cheese canopy (map), Friday, 11 October 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
Driving around this evening it was just so dark, and the dull blatter of rain meant what I could see was never clear, I really did not feel safe.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 11 October 2019 20:29 (four years ago) link
blatter out
― be goose, do crimes (||||||||), Friday, 11 October 2019 20:46 (four years ago) link
I had to change a litter box in this pissy weather, 0/10 do not recommend
― gyac, Friday, 11 October 2019 20:52 (four years ago) link
I know this nothing compared to Typhoon Hagibis, but ffs can we have a couple of dry, sunny days please.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 13 October 2019 14:52 (four years ago) link
25 today in Paris today & tomorrow, and dry and relatively sunny. I suppose this relative heat wave did not cross la Manche?
― L'assie (Euler), Sunday, 13 October 2019 14:59 (four years ago) link
joue pas au con, merci
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 13 October 2019 15:01 (four years ago) link
mdr
― L'assie (Euler), Sunday, 13 October 2019 15:19 (four years ago) link
Merde il pleut
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 13 October 2019 15:38 (four years ago) link
Can someone or something please make it stop? Thanks in advance.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 13 October 2019 15:54 (four years ago) link
guys i think... it happened?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 13 October 2019 16:13 (four years ago) link
Emphasis on the past tense.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 13 October 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link
absolute definition of it
leaving house: just a few drops, will probably stop in a minute, no need to put on waterproofsarriving at work: soaked :(
― britain's secret sauce (seandalai), Monday, 14 October 2019 08:39 (four years ago) link
According too my app I walked 7.86 miles yesterday, my body feels more like it did 20 miles on account that trudging through quagmire whilst its pissing it down takes much more out of you.
― calzino, Monday, 14 October 2019 08:42 (four years ago) link
Just pissing as normal in Glasgow
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 14 October 2019 08:55 (four years ago) link
love too dodge wet glass pavement squares amidst tons of fucking tourists and in low visibility
― gyac, Monday, 14 October 2019 10:55 (four years ago) link
the government put them there to fell tankies iirc
― imago, Monday, 14 October 2019 10:56 (four years ago) link
all's dandy now but tonight we're supposed to get 100kph gusts from a system working its way up from the Bay of Biscay. some rain too, probably not pissy either
― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 14 October 2019 10:58 (four years ago) link
Impressionnant cet orage qui s'abat sur la région de #Nantes en ce moment. pic.twitter.com/41upypXhGh— Marion Lopez (@MarionLpz) October 14, 2019
this doesn't look too pissy
― calzino, Monday, 14 October 2019 13:58 (four years ago) link
Not bad here at the moment, but...
An amber severe weather warning for #thunderstorms has been issued: https://t.co/QwDLMfRBfs Stay #weatheraware @metofficeuk pic.twitter.com/a5zUdWHDAM— Met Office (@metoffice) October 14, 2019
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 14 October 2019 14:16 (four years ago) link
Yeah we’re under orange alert this evening, tornados possible but probably outside la capitale.
― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 14 October 2019 14:19 (four years ago) link
Not bad here at the moment, but...🐦[An amber severe weather warning for #thunderstorms🕸 has been issued: https://t.co/QwDLMfRBfs🕸 Stay #weatheraware🕸 @metofficeuk🕸 pic.twitter.com/a5zUdWHDAM🕸— Met Office (@metoffice) October 14, 2019🕸]🐦
― gyac, Monday, 14 October 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link
this one makes better noises: http://en.blitzortung.org/live_lightning_maps.php?map=10
― mark s, Monday, 14 October 2019 14:25 (four years ago) link
FYI I am in a caravan the West Texas effing DESERT and experiencing miserable pissy rain.
― Tim, Monday, 14 October 2019 14:31 (four years ago) link
so things are looking up for you
― mark s, Monday, 14 October 2019 14:38 (four years ago) link
(The weather here’s been mostly vg but I wasn’t expecting to be rained on in the desert.)
― Tim, Monday, 14 October 2019 14:41 (four years ago) link
ARGH! MAKE IT STOP!
― the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 24 October 2019 11:53 (four years ago) link
Keep strong and look forward to next summer, with its inevitable annual drought crisis predictions for the UK.
― Luna Schlosser, Thursday, 24 October 2019 12:00 (four years ago) link
particularly pissy today
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Thursday, 24 October 2019 12:02 (four years ago) link