Hot and grotty
Saturday, July 26th, 2008 06:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanI have never understood the weather forecasters when they tell us that we will be 'enjoying high temperatures' over the next couple of days, weeks, whatever.
Maybe it's the circles I move in, but I am pretty sure that for every one person I meet who professes to enjoy the combination of heat and humidity that is a London summer, I can find six or seven that wish it would all go away. Me included. I acknowledge that it's better in a rural setting - not as humid as a rule and rather fresher, but still. Every now and again the heat gets to a pitch that it pretty much burns the humidity off. That is marginally better.
A few years ago I spend a week in Stockholm around this time of the year. It was blisteringly hot, but without the slightest trace of humidity in the air whatsoever. I could enjoy that heat once I got used to it. I guess I could get used to desert heat too, for the same reason. The fist time I went to Virginia I was knocked back by the heat and humidity they have in spring time - easily the same as the height of an English summer (we are rather further north), but there was an almighty thunderstorm on the first night, which freshened the weather for the rest of my week there, though toward the end it was building up again.
We need a thunderstorm now. A good one about two hours long, with torrents of rain, followed by clear skies over night to clear the air properly.
Now that's weather I can enjoy.
Maybe it's the circles I move in, but I am pretty sure that for every one person I meet who professes to enjoy the combination of heat and humidity that is a London summer, I can find six or seven that wish it would all go away. Me included. I acknowledge that it's better in a rural setting - not as humid as a rule and rather fresher, but still. Every now and again the heat gets to a pitch that it pretty much burns the humidity off. That is marginally better.
A few years ago I spend a week in Stockholm around this time of the year. It was blisteringly hot, but without the slightest trace of humidity in the air whatsoever. I could enjoy that heat once I got used to it. I guess I could get used to desert heat too, for the same reason. The fist time I went to Virginia I was knocked back by the heat and humidity they have in spring time - easily the same as the height of an English summer (we are rather further north), but there was an almighty thunderstorm on the first night, which freshened the weather for the rest of my week there, though toward the end it was building up again.
We need a thunderstorm now. A good one about two hours long, with torrents of rain, followed by clear skies over night to clear the air properly.
Now that's weather I can enjoy.