Okay, so the A1 was closed for a short time in Northumberland, but that doesn't count for much when you are on the Manchester side o' t'Pennines.
Is this winter Global Warming style? What happened to the good old-fashioned snows like we had in the 60s? I remember cars being abandoned overnight and buried under the snow on Lees Road in the late 70s. It just doesn't snow properly any more! There must be a generation of children growing up now who think that snow is a seasonal effect on some web sites at Christmas!

It now seems to be the case that if the forecasters warn us of terrible weather with gale force winds, typhoons and blizzards, then we are relieved or even pleased when it turns out to be a day of dull drizzle.
Met with some friends recently and we were talking about how many words the English have for 'it's raining' (compare the Eskimos' 40 words for snow). Can you add to these:
ReplyDelete'mizzling, drizzling, raining (cats and dogs); pelting down, hailing, showery, bucketing down, pouring down and so on
You're tempting us here Meg - I'm sure we all know some words that are best not put on here! One more acceptable phrase myself and a friend invented was "It's pleuting" (from the French 'Il pleut' meaning 'It is raining'). Also I remember "It's larraping down" - don't know where that came from though. A phase often used here on the Fylde and which I have never heard until I came here is "It's coming down in stairods".
ReplyDeleteDownpour... the heavens opened... fine rain... tipping down... precipitation... chucking it doen... throwing it down... spitting... deluge...
ReplyDeleteA friend of mine refers to very fine rain (the sort that doesn't look bad but which drenches you) as "wetting rain" and another calls it "closely knitted rain"
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