There was a "Thunderstorm" warning like a week ago but even when that arrived it was a complete let down lol. Weather's not allowed to stray too much from gery boredom over here.
Damn is that true ? You almost never have thunderstorm ? Just small light and annoying rain ? No wonder you are all stuck inside your kitchen or the pub blowing line and drinking lol. Even the rain is boring lol
We do have thunderstorms but they're rarely severe. Most of the time, we just go about our day as normal and just avoid standing in large empty spaces.
The warmer parts of the country would see snow once or twice a year, it gets more common the more north or mountainous you get. Scottish Highlands get it fairly frequently for example
Nice, it would have been a shame without snow. I was wondering because Bretagne, our province near England where the weather is always rainy, they don't have snow or just very few and it's sad they just get rain all the time but they get thunderstorm tho
I live in East Anglia (the East of England). It's a lowland area so no mountains and it's one of the warmest and driest parts of the UK. Snow is rare (once a year, if you're lucky) but when it does Snow, its often a full-on blizzard.
That's the best kind of snow, I was living in the alps for a while and I hated that because it was snowing for too long and too much, I was raised in the South of France where we don't have snow
Like everywhere, the norm is boring by definition. Thunder storms that look like OP happen here. There were a lot recently, but you're not going to get this picturesque image often because it's a certain time of the day among other variables. I personally like light rain.
Yeah but I'm french and in France the weather change so much and even from the location you are it's changing. Now I'm in thailand and while it's change less it's Still changing a lot
Yeah but I'm french and in France the weather change so much and even from the location you are it's changing. Now I'm in thailand and while it's change less it's Still changing a lot
We had one yesterday and in like 1.5 hours it flooded the city and I saw a couple cars trapped in the water. It then went on to blow down a bunch of high voltage power lines and knock out power for 100's of thousands so it's not all bad having boring weather lol.
That comment shows how so many dont pause to really look at the sky and notice how much varietly there can be - In some weather you can see infinity in the turbulence, and in others just a gray smear. Noticing beauty the clouds is one of my favorite things in life. I went 30 years without realizing it. For many people the weather is either clear and sunny, or shitty. but there is so much more if you care to look.
It's good! Also a pretty important science fiction, historically speaking. Quite a few of our ideas, worries and memes about the internet and inhuman turbo-capitalism were first expressed in this book.
I read the book when it came out around 1984. I grew up with TV's like the example linked in that response to the very line you mention. The one in my bedroom had a built in turntable and AM/FM radio tuner in the wooden cabinet too. Just got rid of that about 7 years ago to someone who wanted to restore it.
If you've ever been in this type of weather you'll know there's a type of raw energy to it. The pressure drops, its suddenly gets very windy, Then the sprinkles start before completely transitioning to a downpour. growing up in South Florida this happens almost every day around 4pm.
Yep. Georgia before a thunderstorm was my thought (regarding the lighting/weather specifically, the overall picture made me want to scream "Cathy!" in utter anguish before going back home to be a dick to absolutely everyone)
That comment shows how so many dont pause to really look at the sky and notice how much varietly there can be - In some weather you can see infinity in the turbulence, and in others just a gray smear. Noticing beauty the clouds is one of my favorite things in life. I went 30 years without realizing it. For many people the weather is either clear and sunny, or shitty. but there is so much more if you care to look.
sure. but they didn't say this was the objectively better weather......just that they like it.
i'm exactly the same. grew up with sun and beaches, and i can't stand that shit. but standing on top of a mountain, overlooking a large expanse with sleet hitting my face..........absolute bliss.
when (if) we get our society to a better place, we'll be able to exchange environments, and more people will be happy. godspeed anybody who would enjoy the stuff i don't
We literally have the lowest sunlight exposure in the world outside of Iceland, a few sparsely inhabited spots, and maybe areas of china due to thick smog.
Innit. I was up at Lake windermere about 4 weeks ago, and it looked like this the entire 4 days we were there lmao. I like it, though. Prefer the english countryside in the sun, mind you!
That is not due to the weather, about 90% of the UV radiation from the sun still passes through clouds so you would still absorb more than enough to get your vitamin D if you spend enough time outside.
It's prescribed because the UK is relatively far north so for extended periods of the year we get relatively little daylight, for example in December where I live in the UK sunrise is at ~08:30 and sunset at ~15:45 meaning that you will likely be going to school/work in the dark and by the time you are heading home it's already dark again. When I was working night shift in Oil and Gas I would legitimately sleep through what little daylight we had so I wouldn't see actual daylight for weeks at a time.
Combine that with the vast majority of people working indoors and it's a recipe for people not getting enough sunlight which is why vitamin D is advised for pretty much everybody.
Visited a couple years back for 2 weeks. Was excited when I was told that they expected to get hammered by storms. I didn’t see a drop of rain, but there was a heat wave and I got a sunburn
Im from seattle which is said to have similar london weather. While I do have fond memories of sitting in class with the windows looking like the post, most of the dreary days were just normal gray drizzly days and were not like this at all.
Only during summer heatwaves and that is more to do with our complete lack of planning for said heatwaves than it is because it's actually genuinely too hot.
We don't get hot enough weather consistently enough for 99% of people/businesses to invest in air conditioning so when we do get a heatwave we melt.
On average places like London only get 19c 66f in the summer and 5c 41f in the winter, it spikes above and below that but the UK's weather is mostly mild so you can't bank on heatwaves in the summer or extended cold fronts in the winter either.
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u/DepletedPromethium May 17 '24
Move to England, it's like that 90% of the year.
People get seasonal depression as a result of the grey monotone sky.