It rains in the UK. When the Romans invaded they noticed how cloudy and rainy the place is. Still is.
‘Seasons have become confused’: the people struggling in UK’s relentless rain
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tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 7 hours ago
thr0w4w4y2@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
February: “oh this climate change is no good, it’s so rainy all the time!”
March: “hey we just booked our second trip to Magaluf, Ryanair was super cheap so we’re going twice this year, but our main holiday in Florida is still this Summer.”
April: “well, time to trade in the Range Rover for a new 26 plate model. Maybe the 6 litre turbo diesel this time? We need the power. Not ready for all this electric nonsense though.”
May: “we’re running the tumble dryer almost every day now, we’re spending so much on electricity we might as well get a second hot tub!”
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MrSulu@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Our (UK) social glue is talking about the weather. We are rain experts. When we speak out about the rain, you know it’s bad.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 23 hours ago
Is it true that like the Inuit have hundreds of words for snow, that the brittish have hundreds of words for rain?
MrSulu@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
We have ways to describe rain from “that fine rain that gets you really wet”, to “its pissing down” and “cats & dogs”. Not quite Inuit levels of specificity. However, you aren’t even British if you can’t hold a solid rain conversation
zwerg@feddit.org 19 hours ago
No, on both counts.
FishFace@piefed.social 1 day ago
I’m not sure rain in winter is a confused season. The reason we’re having is exceptional in any season.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
Almost as if the climate was changing.
JiffyBag@feddit.org 1 day ago
Hold on whilst I find a historical weather period from a million years ago where this happened and the world didn’t end. (/denial)
Johnnyvibrant@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
The world won’t end…humankind’s ability to successfully live off it will do.
A million years is pretty much unimaginable to a person, it’s nothing to the earth.