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When Is It Going To Rain?
It’s been the driest month in England since the mid 1920’s and we haven’t seen a drop of rain in some counties for months now. What’s going on with the British summer? It’s hot, sunny and not raining, which must be confusing most people in the country.
Normally we’d all be complaining that it’s not hot enough, it’s too wet and we want a proper summer. Well in 2010 we’ve gotten that hot summer we always pretend we want, and up till now we’ve spent it complaining (it’s too hot, too humid and it needs to rain).
Weather reports over the last few days suggesting the dry spell is showing no real signs of going away, it looks like we’re going to be needing those desk fans at work for a while longer yet. Not to join in with the complaining, but it is too hot in most offices. If our government wasn’t making cuts left, right and centre I’d suggest a national campaign aiming to get an air purifier and conditioner in every home, office and shop in the country.
Some counties are taking the dry spell so seriously, they’re even mentioning those words we all dread to hear in the UK; a hosepipe ban. Have we ever actually run out of water in this country? Even in the last serious dry spell 60 years ago did that happen? If we really can’t get through one dry spell without panicking and banning anything that so much as dribbles water, we’re not the same country I always thought we were. We all know it will do nothing but rain for months once Christmas rolls around again and we’ll all be huddled round the patio heaters wishing it was summer again.
OK, I’ll stop complaining about the British weather, anyway, i’m on my way to buy a dehumidifier and watch the world cup final in relative comfort, even if England are already out.
