Daily discussion post: Let's talk about the weather

[smallhobbit]

Because I'm a Brit, and that's what we do.

It is a characature that whenever two Brits get together the first thing they discuss is the weather, we all know it and acknowledge it, and continue to do it.  It's the easy ice breaker, the way of politely spending the first couple of minutes before moving onto something of greater depth.

And why not - we live in a country where one day it may be cold enough to need to put the heating back on and the next day all the windows are thrown open with the plaintive cry of 'it's too hot!'  And where in one place it will be pouring with rain and a mile away it's still dry as a bone.

So, what about you?  Do you live in a place where the weather is more guaranteed?  Do you like it hot or cold, wet or dry, snowing or thunderstorms?  And what is your weather like now?

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Comments

[petrea_mitchell]

I live near Portland, OR, which is notable for getting the most hours of rain per year of any place in the United States. It's nowhere near the most total rain, though, since most of it is more of a half-hearted drizzle.

In other words, we have very British weather! Ask any British person around here why they moved here, and the first answer is always, "The rain makes it feel like home."

(Portland has also been described to me by a British person as, "It looks just like Wales, if you ignore the volcanoes.")

A week ago it was above 80F (high 20s Celsius), but the last few days it's been dark and gloomy and damp and cold.

Our peculiar local term for the rain is "Oregon sunshine".

I'm originally from the SF Bay Area, where the unique local weather term was "tule fog"-- for the thick fog that fills up the river valleys, where the tule reeds grow. Do you have any interesting unique local ways of describing weather?

[smallhobbit]

If I were moving someone I'm not sure I'd deliberately choose anywhere which reminded me of the rain. And yes, it does feel like it always rains in Wales - and where we live we are right in line for the west wind helpfully blowing the rain straight to us!