For Once With Reason
The English are renowned for being obsessed with the weather and for once it seems to actually be worth watching. Over the last week there have been flash floods across the country, funnel clouds, the clearest azure skies and golden sun as well as gale force winds and thunderstorms galore. On the upside the weather men/ladies couldn't possibly get the weather wrong since it has been so varied!
It seems almost as though we have developed our own wet season or possibly, over the next few years we shall really see, a defined tornado season. The warm weather and torrential rain (would love to start spouting rubbish about low pressure and isobars but I'm not that far up my own arse just yet) have bought daily thunder storms. On Tuesday as I looked out the window marvelling at the sheer force with which the drops of water fell the gutters started to overflow and the sky mid afternoon was evening dark. The unnatural darkness wasn't constant however, lightning flashes briefly illuminated the streets highlighting the sheets of rain and bruise coloured clouds. have you ever noticed that clouds can seem almost yellowy purple during a storm? not the normal deep threatening gray.
The weather is so humid that the rows of terrace houses stood with their windows ajar like the mouths of stunned residents unaccustomed to such heavy downpours and flood alerts. Lightning snaked through the gray again and the thunder followed almost instantaneously, the sound of a mountain collapsing overhead.
The Met office has declared double the avergae rainfall for the month, in fact in some areas over triple. For the first two days of July parts of the country received more than two weeks rain. Then there are the increasingly common funnel clouds and the reports of actual tornadoes touching down, yet generally the breeze has remained mild leaving the storms to fester around our shores for longer than usual. My garden looks lush and green yet battered by the sheer force of our newest season.
It seems almost as though we have developed our own wet season or possibly, over the next few years we shall really see, a defined tornado season. The warm weather and torrential rain (would love to start spouting rubbish about low pressure and isobars but I'm not that far up my own arse just yet) have bought daily thunder storms. On Tuesday as I looked out the window marvelling at the sheer force with which the drops of water fell the gutters started to overflow and the sky mid afternoon was evening dark. The unnatural darkness wasn't constant however, lightning flashes briefly illuminated the streets highlighting the sheets of rain and bruise coloured clouds. have you ever noticed that clouds can seem almost yellowy purple during a storm? not the normal deep threatening gray.
The weather is so humid that the rows of terrace houses stood with their windows ajar like the mouths of stunned residents unaccustomed to such heavy downpours and flood alerts. Lightning snaked through the gray again and the thunder followed almost instantaneously, the sound of a mountain collapsing overhead.
The Met office has declared double the avergae rainfall for the month, in fact in some areas over triple. For the first two days of July parts of the country received more than two weeks rain. Then there are the increasingly common funnel clouds and the reports of actual tornadoes touching down, yet generally the breeze has remained mild leaving the storms to fester around our shores for longer than usual. My garden looks lush and green yet battered by the sheer force of our newest season.
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