The weather

[caddyman]

Today I shall be talking about the weather. It is what we English do, you know: grumble about it being too hot, or too cold; too wet, or too dry. It is a fine tradition of some years standing and far be it for me to break such an august national characteristic.

I think I may safely say that we have dispensed with the traditional summer. We have the long hours of daylight certainly. We have the warmth of summer, too, though not the heat. We seem to be importing US style humidity and Indian subcontinent monsoon, however, and I feel that something has gone awry with the climate of the country that gave us Constable’s Hay Wain and Dedham Vale. We have, instead, that of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. It is dull, overcast, warm and humid with near-constant if light, rain during the day. At night it is just too warm to sleep comfortably until about 3.30am when it becomes just too cool to sleep comfortably, after which we have sunrise, which makes it just too light to sleep comfortably.

I think I want my money back. This isn’t quite what I signed up for. Where is my equable climate, the one I remember from my youth?

Comments

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I don't doubt climate change, I just worry about some of the sweeping assumptions presented as gospel based on comparatively small data sets.

So there. ;-p

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

If yer can't bitch about the weather, what else is there? ;-D

[keresaspa.livejournal.com]

Rain would be a welcome relief here as it is going from cloudy to sunny every six seconds or so today. Mind you, we do have the same humidity, which is hardly ideal for us gentlemen of the more husky carriage.

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

The poles are reversing. That is all.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Bloody furriners. Coming over here and mucking up our weather!