Rain! At last!

nanna8

We were once in a town where it hadn’t rained for years. It started to rain whilst we were there and everyone rushed outside the pub to watch it. Some little ones had never seen it in their lives. Outback South Australia.

When I was teaching English in desert-climate Oman, the whole class (nearly all young adult males) charged outside during a rare February rain shower, and danced in it! They called the rain ‘God’s bounty’.
Much the same, young dds living for most of the year in Oman, were very excited to play out in the rain when we were back in the UK for the summer hols.

nanna8

We were once in a town where it hadn’t rained for years. It started to rain whilst we were there and everyone rushed outside the pub to watch it. Some little ones had never seen it in their lives. Outback South Australia.

Wow!

Our weather pattern, particularly this year, is nuts.

We did have rain from January to end of March in most places, then just dull, then the sun came (hoorah), then it came too much (boo), yesterday we had torrential rain all night and most of the morning, then warmth and a bit of sun.

Today grey, breezy and spitting rain.

I heard a piece from a rep from one of the water companies, on the radio, which made my blood boil, almost 20 percent of our water is still lost in leakage and in some areas it’s almost 30 percent, no new reservoirs have been built for a zillion years (well 20 years!) and we will, yet again, have a drought and water restrictions come summer!!

Outrageous!

We were once in a town where it hadn’t rained for years. It started to rain whilst we were there and everyone rushed outside the pub to watch it. Some little ones had never seen it in their lives. Outback South Australia.

RAIN, GLORIOUS RAIN!

A couple of nights ago I was standing out in it for 10 minutes in just my t-shirt and shorts when it was tipping it down; then yesterday after work I'd gone into Sainsburys, came out, and it was REALLY SERIOUSLY pouring, like very heavy Amazon forests! HUGE globs of water!

I was wearing a lightweight sleeveless jacket, t-shirt, and black leggings. While everyone else was hiding from it, I was just strolling around on the Promenade, the only one there, completely and utterly drenched, sitting on an extremely saturated bench, loving every second of the rain! I took my hat off, and in seconds my hair was clinging to my head! Such a lovely feeling!

When I got home, the jacket and t-shirt went straight in the washing machine, but my leggings were glued to me; I literally had to grab the scissors and cut them off and bin them, so it's lucky I have a ton of other leggings!

I find it scary when it doesn't rain too!

Chocolatelovinggran

Sudden downpours seem to wait for picking- up- from- school - time here.
Consequently, I collected my GC from nursery yesterday wearing the well known fetching summer ensemble of sandals and hooded raincoat.

Aah Chocolatelovingran that ensemble can be seen frequently on the streets of our town. Day trippers come here to the seaside dressed for the weather they want rather than what’s forecast.

Raining here today. I took some things to the tip and their drains have blocked so wished I’d taken wellies.

Sorry to hear about the mess M0nica but glad there was a quick resolution .

We’ve had a fair bit of rain over the last few days in Scotland. I’m currently tumble drying the washing I hung out on the line yesterday.

Sudden downpours seem to wait for picking- up- from- school - time here.
Consequently, I collected my GC from nursery yesterday wearing the well known fetching summer ensemble of sandals and hooded raincoat.

I had to find a warmer layer today. Rain and wind here in North Wales and much cooler.

I knew has soon as I changed to my 2 tog duvet the weather would change!

Thunderstorms here in Perth and Kinross yesterday. Much fresher and more comfortable today as a result. Not a fan of heat.

We got a bit today,too. Freezing today, Winter has arrived.

Mine comes on and off with the thermostat all year round. No on or off switch.

I’m trying not to put the heating on

And cold and windy today. No wonder we feel tired. Our bodies adjusting from a long cold spring to a sudden very very hot burst and now back again to sweater and jacket weather is energy sapping.

Well, here in the north west we have no shortage rain

As the water poured into the kitchen around the kitchen window, my enthusiasm for rain and its ability to save me watering the garden waned.

We had 7 or 8 bucketsful in in total. It soaked all my baking tins and detergents under the sink and threatened our nice new wood floor in the living room.

It was sudden and unexpected, we wondered whether the gutter had cracked. Fortunately we have builders in doing the outside of the house including reroofing the kitchen extention.

The builder is a big lad, well over 6 ft, he ran his hand along the gutter and found that a lump of moss had washed off the roof and was perched over the entry to the downpipe. He took it out, water gushed down the pipe and the problem ended.

Yesterday was spent mopping up and drying everything out.

I am glad about the rain, and was a little concerned about the sudden heatwave breaking all records, was watching the news the other day and heard that temps are consistently getting higher and that next year they could be eye popping in the UK, due to El Niño. Certainly have noticed over the past few years how hot Europe and the UK is getting in summer, but now spring as well.
I do find it worrying.

My area had been forecast rain over the weekend but it didn't happen. Thankfully we had the lot yesterday. Light showers that developed into a deluge and 2 thunderstorms. You can't please everyone, though. My youngest GD was looking forward to playing in a big local Primary schools cricket tournament but rain stopped play!