miserable pissy rain

after spending the morning imagining my cat bedraggled and forlorn or worse I cycled home at lunch to find her meowing up a ruckus outside. she then did this celebration wriggle

http://imgur.com/pT339za
http://imgur.com/qXrmj2l

Boo

https://i.imgur.com/qXrmj2lh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/pT339za.jpg

lol

also hurrah the return

It hasn't been raining much in Scotland, strangely.

that's awesome ogmor. i find myself desiring to wriggle like that sometimes.

NV, Bruges is great. Not that great when it rains, but even then it's still p great.

please tell me you tickled that beautiful cat’s belly

sunny on the south coast today

xp always. she's normally a quiet cat but she wouldn't shut up when I found her. her brother was doing little subdued mournful meows this morning and looking for her under the sofa, thankfully he can go back to terrorising her now.

miserable pussy reign

lol

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!?

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?

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.

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.

this is exactly the thread I'd expect to see this morning, feeling a bit Ill and god does it look grim out there

I can guarantee that it's going to stop raining because I've just bought a new waterproof jacket online.

yeah this is OTT. it's not usually this bad this time of year

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.

I'll take a sunny -20 in January over this, thank you very much.

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.

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.

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.

that's beautiful fizzles and it almost makes me want to live in the countryside

Seconded!

I'm halfway there (or so it seems to me), but it's not quite the same.

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.

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"

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.

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.

it's the heartbeat of america. it's today's chevrolet.

womp wommmmp

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.

blatter out

I had to change a litter box in this pissy weather, 0/10 do not recommend

I know this nothing compared to Typhoon Hagibis, but ffs can we have a couple of dry, sunny days please.

25 today in Paris today & tomorrow, and dry and relatively sunny. I suppose this relative heat wave did not cross la Manche?

joue pas au con, merci

mdr

Merde il pleut

Can someone or something please make it stop? Thanks in advance.

guys i think... it happened?

Emphasis on the past tense.

absolute definition of it

leaving house: just a few drops, will probably stop in a minute, no need to put on waterproofs
arriving at work: soaked :(

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.

Just pissing as normal in Glasgow

love too dodge wet glass pavement squares amidst tons of fucking tourists and in low visibility

the government put them there to fell tankies iirc

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

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