STORM WATCH! Careful, you might get slightly wet!
Have a look out of your window right now. If you can see rain, chances are you’re somewhere in the UK. During most of the year, in England at least, it appears to be constantly raining. It seems to be evenly split between heavy rain and that very fine misty not-quite-real-rain that seems to happen a lot during, say, January. And March. And April. Also February, May, September, August, December, July… you get the general idea.
Apparently in LA, this very fine misty not-quite-real-rain is headline news. The opening item on the 11 o’ clock news tonight was a so-called “Storm Watch” reporting this light rain. There was advice to be careful on the roads, and the reporter expressed concern that people outside might get wet. I shit you not. I mean, Storm Watch? How does this sort of rain even qualify as a “storm”? They had a weatherman named, almost appropriately enough, Dallas Rains, tracking this apparently minuscule cloud on its journey across the State as it lets loose its torrential downpour of slight moisture upon an unsuspecting population.
What the Hell is that all about? It’s not like California is soluble in water, is it? Why the commotion? It rains in LA at roughly the same time of year every year. They get the exact same type of rain. The city slows to a crawl. There’s panic on the streets, cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria. This weather is somehow surprising to the people, and the news is deemed important enough to report at the start of the news ahead of things such as, say, murder trials and the latest on that thing going on in Iraq (I hear there’s some sort of war going on or something, but apparently both this rain and Britney Spears’ latest transgressions against humanity are more important).
I have a mind, and it is boggled.
October 13th, 2007 at 3:17 am
I wouldn’t say it was constantly raining in the UK. The great thing about the UK is that the weather’s always different. It starts off in the morning as a beautiful sunny day, you wear your summer clothing and it pours down in the afternoon. Alternatively, another day - it’s freezing in the morning, you wrap up warm and it’s blisteringly hot in the afternoon causing you to have to take off all the extra layers of clothing you’re wearing and carry them around like a fool. It means the weather reports are constantly wrong, and less useful than making a vague guess from looking at the sky, and you never know what kind of insane weather you’re in for next.
Most countries are just hot or cold. Randomly generated weather is among the best things about the UK, imho.
October 18th, 2007 at 2:06 am
The nice thing about the Uk is get get to experience a whole range of weather, everything from Snow to boiling hot days (occasionally!)
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