weather

Flaming July from loiswakeman 493 days old

I used to think the adjective was a mark of approbation of nice weather, rather than, as I now suspect, a curse! The puddle outside the office is almost ...

A benefit of high oil prices? from loiswakeman 540 days old

The sky at 7:30 this morning - already blemished by seven contrails. Although the current price of oil is painful - both for driving and heating water ...

Weather lore – splash or soak? from loiswakeman 547 days old

[ ... ] warm sunny weather, followed by a torrential downpour – presumably a soak. The trouble with such predictions is that they are very imprecise, and ...

"Oak before ash... from loiswakeman 936 days old

we're in for a splash; ash before oak, we're in for a soak". Thus goes the country saying, which refers to the order in which the oak and ash trees ...