What's the Weather Like Where You Live? — Page 9

Bingowings said:

Just looked at my phone and the clock/weather gauge thing said 22:22 22°

Six little ducks!

Yesterday afternoon my village was the victim of a flash flood. There was thunder, lightning strikes on roofs, hail, water rushing along the roads as high as the wheel arches of cars. The front and back doors were shaking from the rain beating on them and it was as black as night. All in the space of about ten minutes! Luckily for us we are on a slight incline so the water didn’t hang around for long after. But what a mess that storm left.

About two miles along the coast a woman fell off a cliff trying to rescue her dog (miraculously, both survived!) Unfortunately a cyclist was killed by a car near the next town and a van driver slid off the road and died just up from that.

A bad day’s weather to be sure, made worse by the fact that today is beautiful and summery.

Yikes…are you in the UK? I heard there’s been some pretty bad floods there.

RicOlie_2 said:

Yikes…are you in the UK? I heard there’s been some pretty bad floods there.

Yep! I’m right down in the south and we’ve been quite lucky so far but a lot of people further north haven’t. I don’t know if it’s just my perspective getting older but my country seems to be flooding a lot more than it used to.

Up here in Canada, we boil water at those temperatures.

From mid April until about 2 weeks ago it was boiling hot. I had to get the electric fan out because Scottish houses have this very simple form of air conditioning (we open or shut a window). Yesterday I had to have the Central Heating on and the rain… wow. Looks like we are saying goodbye to that continental weather. Lucky for us the River Carron is tidal so no flooding yet.

The snow part is weird, but June is one of the main months we get hail up here…

It was very sunny and (too) warm for most of the day today, then the clouds rolled in a couple hours ago and we got ourselves a big, heavy rainstorm.

It’s actually been unusually wet and cool this month. An Okanagan July is usually pretty hot and dry – temperatures usually stay in and around the low-to-mid 30s (Celsius, that is), rarely dropping beneath the high 20s. This year, though, virtually every day has been a mix of sun and cloud, often rainy, with the temperatures pretty much staying in the mid 20s. I honestly can’t recall a time when July was ever this cool.

I suppose it’s too much to hope this nice weather pattern will continue into August, though.

The other day we had a huge rainstorm while I was at work. There was a heavy downpour for at least half an hour. When I went outside, I had to waid through two or three inches of water.

*wade

TV’s Frink said:

*wade

Geez, my typing has been sloppy lately.

I don’t know how I even managed to spell it like that in the first place.

I’m sure it’s not because you’re Canadian.

Looks like the wet spell has ended. The last several days have been blightfully sunny and/or hellishly hot.