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Re: What is the Weather like where You Live?
« Reply #2055 on: March 10, 2008, 08:00:40 AM »
We have the latter kind.
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Re: What is the Weather like where You Live?
« Reply #2056 on: March 10, 2008, 09:01:22 AM »
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?

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Re: What is the Weather like where You Live?
« Reply #2057 on: March 10, 2008, 09:17:12 AM »
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.
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14:10 - Moarskrillex42: She said something about knowing why I wanted to move to Glasgow when she came in. She plopped down on my bed and told me to go ahead and open it for her.

14:11 - Peter5930: So, she thought I was your lover and that I was sending you a box full of sex toys, and that you wanted to move to Glasgow to be with me?

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Re: What is the Weather like where You Live?
« Reply #2058 on: March 10, 2008, 09:22:54 AM »
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.
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14:10 - Moarskrillex42: She said something about knowing why I wanted to move to Glasgow when she came in. She plopped down on my bed and told me to go ahead and open it for her.

14:11 - Peter5930: So, she thought I was your lover and that I was sending you a box full of sex toys, and that you wanted to move to Glasgow to be with me?

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Re: What is the Weather like where You Live?
« Reply #2059 on: March 10, 2008, 11:22:15 AM »
at least i was in the right area, sort of thing.  yay me!  :laugh:

i read a lot of ian rankin, you know.  ;)

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Re: What is the Weather like where You Live?
« Reply #2060 on: March 10, 2008, 03:52:36 PM »

Warming!

Well above freezing. It's almost mud season.

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Re: What is the Weather like where You Live?
« Reply #2061 on: March 10, 2008, 06:18:48 PM »
damp, breezy, 4C/39F

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Re: What is the Weather like where You Live?
« Reply #2062 on: March 11, 2008, 01:54:52 AM »
+5C or thereabouts. Cloudy.
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Re: What is the Weather like where You Live?
« Reply #2063 on: March 11, 2008, 04:06:59 AM »
Sun keeps peeping out. windy. 5C/41F

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Re: What is the Weather like where You Live?
« Reply #2064 on: March 13, 2008, 12:12:48 PM »
sunny 73f/22c

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Re: What is the Weather like where You Live?
« Reply #2065 on: March 13, 2008, 02:32:50 PM »
Rainy. As usual.
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Re: What is the Weather like where You Live?
« Reply #2066 on: March 13, 2008, 02:35:39 PM »


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!
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Re: What is the Weather like where You Live?
« Reply #2067 on: March 13, 2008, 03:45:53 PM »
Fucking horrible.
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14:10 - Moarskrillex42: She said something about knowing why I wanted to move to Glasgow when she came in. She plopped down on my bed and told me to go ahead and open it for her.

14:11 - Peter5930: So, she thought I was your lover and that I was sending you a box full of sex toys, and that you wanted to move to Glasgow to be with me?

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Re: What is the Weather like where You Live?
« Reply #2068 on: March 14, 2008, 06:39:16 PM »
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.
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Re: What is the Weather like where You Live?
« Reply #2069 on: March 14, 2008, 08:42:58 PM »
Nice and springlike  :green:
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