fantasmatical thorr wrote:Dude, what I wrote for 'little details...' about the sun and it having not rained for 20 hours or so? I got to work at 6pm last night and it was sunny, hot, really tough weather to go to work in. About 2 hours later I was in the toilets and I hear this bang like either a gas pipe had exploded or a truck had run into a building or something huge. Turned out it was thunder and lightning and it went on for an hour. It was so bloody loud. The crashes were directly above us, it was pretty scary and of course the rain, heavier than ever. My car seat, still soaked. It was raining when I got home, it was raining when I woke up this morning..

Ha! I guess it was you that put the moxers on it.

great! just in time for the weather to turn shit again...

It's been like this in Cardiff since 7pm last night.

the sky is dark green in Surrey, the car park is flooded, it's still hammering down, and I'm starting to think about making my peace with The Big Man.

At work yesterday it was dark outside around 6pm.

I'm steadfast against icecaps melting/four horseman theories due to my childhood of rained out Irish sea-side holidays. I was on the Cork coast for the monster "typhoon" back in the day.

Water off of a fucks back, innit.

Okay, so I've been living in Scotland for roughly a year now. Ever since I got here, the weather has been incredibly mild. I never got snow of any description. I never had anything beyond a drizzle, even when the rest of the UK was flooding. Every day for the past two months or so it has been slightly overcast until 2pm when glorious sunshine breaks out until 10pm. I actually have a sun tan just from driving home.

I'm starting to think you are all making this stuff up.

It was like that yesterday in the North.
I was walking the dog in the woods, and it began to rain in biblical proportions just as I was reaching the furthest point away from my car in the route. All the roads flooded within half an hour.

It's okay now though. It'll pass.

I'm going to buy some drugs, go to my friends and listen to records and die happy. Or, move to fucking Scotland! Damn you Tommy!

It's the fucking Gulf Stream. It's lower than it usually is which is why we're getting all this bollocking rain and the rest of Europer is suffering with heatwaves. Everything has gone tits up.

Here in Nottingham, all we have are slow-moving yet menacing grey clouds, getting darker by the minute.... not much different to how it's been most of this summer for the moment though.

Although for how long? There's definitely a storm brewing.... (cue creepy horror tension chord.)



What's the worst storm you remember in your lifetime? For me it's got to be the mad one in September '87, the one Michael Fish told us wasn't going to happen. Although I remember a pretty bad-ass one in 1990 - I watched a tree collapse on to some quy's Mazda sports car, it seemed to happen in slow motion, it was pretty cool. Although he wasn't happy. Should have counted himself lucky that he couldn't afford a Ferrari....

It was fine in Leeds this morning, although clouds are gathering. This could prove a serious bummer, as I will be walking to and from The Louisiana Bar and Grill for my mate's birthday tonight. Although the walk back might be more entertaining, once I'm filled with 20oz of steak (with, I'm thinking, Jack Daniels glaze) and all the Mint Juleps I can afford.

Fuck the rain!