What is the Weather like where You Live?

[odeon]

We have the latter kind.

[Lucifer]

Adelaide, South Australia...

It's been 40 degrees Celsius for a about 3 days and it's going to be the same for the next week.

I really, really miss the rain.

What sort of rain do you miss?  Brief summer showers that cool and clean the air and which are followed by breezy sunshine and a pleasant smell, or freezing drizzle that drifts down from a uniformly grey and gloomy sky, travelling diagonally on gusts of cold wind and which lasts all day, and the next day, and the day after that?

is that a smirr?

[Peter]

Adelaide, South Australia...

It's been 40 degrees Celsius for a about 3 days and it's going to be the same for the next week.

I really, really miss the rain.

What sort of rain do you miss?  Brief summer showers that cool and clean the air and which are followed by breezy sunshine and a pleasant smell, or freezing drizzle that drifts down from a uniformly grey and gloomy sky, travelling diagonally on gusts of cold wind and which lasts all day, and the next day, and the day after that?

is that a smirr?

I've not heard anyone use 'smirr' around here, but my mum would call this 'dreich'.  I just call it drizzle, and then add expletives until I feel that I've achieved a sufficient characterisation.

[Peter]

How to discuss the weather in Scotland:

Scots, like the rest of the UK, talk a lot about the weather. This hardly surprising - as the hoary old joke so accurately says "If you don't like the weather in Scotland, wait half an hour and it will change". On a "dreich" (wet, dismal) day there may not be a blink of sun and on others it may be "mochie" (warm and damp) and on still others a "simmer cowt" (a heat haze). Of course rain is often a feature ranging from a thunder "plump" (down-pour of rain) making everyone "drookit" (drenched) and producing lots of "dubs" (puddles) and will go into a "burn" (small stream or brook). There may be a more gentle "smirr" (light rain) or there may be an East Coast "haar" (mist from the sea). In winter time, when there are "wreaths" (drifts of snow) and the "snell" (bitingly cold) wind makes everone "fair jeelit" (cold as ice) at least the children can enjoy skiting (sliding) on the ice in a "hunker-slide" (sliding in a crouched position).

It is not always "rainin' auld wives and pipe staples" (heavy rain) or a "pish-oot" (a down-pour) with a "sump" (a great fall of rain). Then again there can be a "thunder-plump" (sudden thunder shower) or a "gandiegow" (heavy shower). Of course, sometimes the weather is just "plowtery" (showery) with a "smirr" (very light rain) or a "dreep" (steady fall of light rain) or a "dribble" (drizzle). Along with the rain it can be "attery" (stormy) with a "blenter" or "flaff" (gusty wind) . The "tousle" (blustery) wind can often feel "snell" (biting). All this wind and rain can produce a "linn" (a torrent or waterfall) and can make us all "droukit" (drenched) and "draggled" (bedraggled) and feel "dowie" (dismal) as we trudge through the "glaur" (mud/mire) or a "sclutter" or "slaister" (messy wetness). The rain may create a "stank" (small stagnant water) while in Glasgow the "stank" is the storm drain in the street. In Perth, the storm drain is called a "condie" (derived, it is said, from the French "conduire"). Then again it may just be "grulie" (unsettled) or even "leesome" (fine) with a "pirl" (gentle breeze). And after the next "plype" (sudden heavy shower) there may even be a "watergow" (a fragmentary rainbow!).

Not that I'd understand you if you used all those words; a lot of them I've never heard anyone speak.

[Lucifer]

at least i was in the right area, sort of thing.  yay me! 

i read a lot of ian rankin, you know. 

[DirtDawg]

Warming!

Well above freezing. It's almost mud season.

[duncvis]

damp, breezy, 4C/39F

[odeon]

+5C or thereabouts. Cloudy.

[duncvis]

Sun keeps peeping out. windy. 5C/41F

[Dexter Morgan]

sunny 73f/22c

[odeon]

Rainy. As usual.

[DirtDawg]

Warmest day we have had since before the end of November. It actually reached sixty degrees, today.

There is still a bunch of ice around, but it's going, fast!

[Peter]

Fucking horrible.

[DirtDawg]

Yesterday was OK, but today was the first dday i've beeen out in shorrt sleeeves since October.

It's stilll in the fifties out there and the sun has gone dowwn.

[Parts]

Nice and springlike