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Bebsi
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| Dubai drove me crazy- sweaty hot blue skies every bloody day with no end in sight. Ugh. |
What do you mean "Ugh"? What you describe is Paradise. We've had a baking hot summer in Romania, and tho it has now cooled down, it is still very pleasant. Would I ever want it to end? Nope. Thankfully, we don't get much rain in Romania, apart from the heavy summer downpours, but the winters do get cold, tho last winter was an exception.
Where I come from in the west of Ireland, it only rains once a year: it starts just after midnight 01 Jan, and ends sometime late new year's eve. 
Dammmit, it rains so much that people stand in the shower to dry off!!!! You grow up with relentless rainy days: you wake up to the sound of rain on the window panes, at midday shortly after the rain has stopped you get frequent showers which go on all afternoon, and then in the evening it starts raining again and everyone nods sagely "ah, you know, I think it's down for the night".
It's relentless, and I recall thousands of picnics, fishing trips, beach trips, drives, sporting events, street parties/parades etc all cancelled because of rain and/or strong wind. This summer, I believe, it truly surpassed itself in that part of the world.
Worse than the rain, I found, was the dreary greyness. The grey dreariness was no picnic either (literally).
What used to amaze me as a child was the local farmers, who moaned about the rain, understandably enough, and prayed fervently for dry weather. But then, after a full week of dry weather - a rare occurrence - they would all stand around in the pub and outside the church and moan about the drought, as if it had lasted for months, and complain that their animals were all dying of thirst. I could never figure out this contradiction.  |
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yaramaz
Joined: 05 Mar 2003
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| I said ugh because endless weeks and months of super bright, super hot, super humid weather just got super boring (and I mean that in every sense of the word). I like variety in my weather. I want monsoons and hail and snow and sunshine and thunderstorms. |
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justme
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Location: Istanbul
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I'm one of these idiots who loves rain. In Oregon it rained, or dribbled some variety of wetness or other for about 9 months out of the year, and I really liked it (though admittedly by the 8th month of greyness it gets you down). My favorite thing was when it wasn't properly raining, but there was a heavy mist falling-- it felt so nice! It always smelled so good, and there were green things growing everywhere, even in places you weren't sure you wanted them, like the shower or behind the fridge.
I also liked being outside when people from out of town were around, and something wet would start coming from the sky, and they would start getting all edgy, going 'It's raining, we should get inside,' and all the locals are going, 'Huh? This isn't rain.'
The only downside of Oregon is not enough thunderstorms. And I had a really hard time living in San Francisco where it was foggy and dark and damp most of the time, with no rain to show for it... |
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yaramaz
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| I come from a similar climate to Justme's (west coast Canada) so I love having very variable weather-- rain and sun and storms all in the same day. The sunsunsun of the Gulf is just tedious after a while for me. It feels like something has to give, something has to break...but it never bloody well does! |
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Bebsi
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| I want monsoons and hail and snow and sunshine and thunderstorms. |
OK, yaramaz, I will talk to my travel agent to see what he's got on his books that contains all of the above. 
I will ask him just after he has booked me my winter vacation, not sure yet where to go, but it'll be a toss between the Atacama Desert, Death Valley, the Rub Al Khali in Saudi Arabia or the Gibson Desert, among a few others.
Death Valley might be a bit cool that time of year, with some cloud even, so it's dropping down the list fast. Sharourah and Alice Springs are favourites.
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hobo
Joined: 28 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 11:24 am Post subject: |
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| I'm one of these idiots who loves rain. |
There's nowt idiotic about loving rain in these times. |
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justme
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Thanks, hobo, because I'm really missing it these days. Brown and dusty just isn't doing it for me...  |
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