miserable pissy rain

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

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

Yeah we’re under orange alert this evening, tornados possible but probably outside la capitale.

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🕸]🐦

this one makes better noises: http://en.blitzortung.org/live_lightning_maps.php?map=10

FYI I am in a caravan the West Texas effing DESERT and experiencing miserable pissy rain.

so things are looking up for you

(The weather here’s been mostly vg but I wasn’t expecting to be rained on in the desert.)

ARGH! MAKE IT STOP!

Keep strong and look forward to next summer, with its inevitable annual drought crisis predictions for the UK.

particularly pissy today

I now understand 'Here Comes the Sun' and acknowledge that it's a remarkable song.

I love the obsessive info on Wikipedia:


Data from two meteorological stations in the London area show that April 1969 set a record for sunlight hours for the 1960s. The Greenwich station recorded 189 hours for April, a high that was not beaten until 1984. The Greenwich data also show that February and March were much colder than the norm for the 1960s, which would account for Harrison's reference to a "long, cold, lonely winter".[3]

I’m on a visit to Liverpool this weekend and it hasn’t stopped raining since I arrived yesterday afternoon. I’ve yet to be able to put away my umbrella when outside. And it’s freezing.

On the plus side, the air quality is excellent (as an asthmatic I’m a connoisseur) and the leaf colours are spectacularly more autumnal than London.

it's very hilly where I live and has been raining without a pause since yesterday evening. The gutters get overwhelmed really fast here and overflow turning the pavements and roads into streams and it is quite a lovely sight until some driver twat deliberately drenches you.

some run-off outside the back window was making this steady low whirring sound all through the night, still going this morning, why the fuck was i born on this shithole island?

In Rotherham my kid's school has been closed and apparently the train station is flooded. It has been pissing it down hard since this morning.

the air quality is excellent

A+ atmos, would breathe again. On the other hand, I don't enjoy the resumption of my ability to simultaneously smell everyone on the bus. And the bus.

turning into an interesting choice between drowning and starving this evening

sat in a pub this aft, eating pizza and supping in front of a coal fire with an old pal from Berlin I've not seen in a decade and it was really good civilised fun until pub filled up with braying office boy wankers and we had to both get off - into that miserable pissy rain was so fucking depressing.

https://66.media.tumblr.com/1de697413c7f9e6206c70ea61c89b2cb/tumblr_mgy8zuaeSc1qzg2mso1_500.gifv

some Great British weather for your Brexit party. enjoy.