Bring It On

[poliphilo]

OK, so where's the torrential rain we've been threatened with? Where's that system- like a gauzy ammonite, like a spiral galaxy of bad intent- they told us was spinning across the Atlantic towards us? Where's it up to? When will it hit? This drizzle doesn't do it for me. I want stair rods. I want thunder and lightening, hail and pace, I want it to fall with the force of a fire hose. 

And mainly I want it to do it now and get it over with, presto, within the next 24 hours, because we'll be driving down to Norfolk tomorrow. 

Comments

[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

Where is it? Probably only in the imagination of tabloid press. I hope.
I don't believe everything I read in the papers.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I saw it on the Tee-Vee. They had a satellite picture...

[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

The Met Office has a "yellow alert" today for Wales, N. Ireland and the Lake District, but then no severe weather over the next 4 days. Maybe it has wandered back into the Atlantic.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/uk_forecast_weather.html

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That sounds acceptable- from my POV I mean.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Well here it rained and it rained and it rained. On Friday Brith (the dog I walk) and I got soaked, even though we tried to shelter under a tree during the part where the drops were so large and numerous that they almost ran together into a continuous sheet. Today it just carried on raining until about 3.30pm, at which point the sky brightened slightly and the rain stopped. Perhaps it just passed a little further south than the forecast said?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's been raining here all day, with intervals, but it's mostly been quite light rain.

[ooxc.livejournal.com]

We've got it - began mid.morning, hasn't stopped -

[ooxc.livejournal.com]

PS. The yellow warning was for "Wales except Anglesey", but we got it anyway - it might be that it's only this end of the island, near the Straits

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

I too prefer a good solid get-it-over-with downpour to an endless drizzle.
I wish you sunshine for your drive.