I feel ya. Actually, I don't know if you simply don't like sunshine (which is a foreign concept to me), or hate what I hate: rapidly changing weather conditions. I've been whining basically since LAST October that the weather needed to pick a season and stick with it for at least two weeks. Instead, in Santa Barbara we've had rapid patterns that fizzle out after about 8 days and change again. First it will be cool. Then sunny as hell. Then it will rain. Then back to sunshine (I do live in California). The next day it will be raining, foggy, AND sunny just before sunset.

My theory is that some sorority or another did a drunken rain dance for Columbus day last year, and the climate has been reeling ever since.

But in any case, I hope your weatherman is wrong as much as you do. Best wishes-Pedro

Try living in Northern Ireland for a year...

You'd never complain about variable weather ever again

Soz can't resist a bit of cock-fighting...

Good luck Dom and no worries about the stories- I'm absolutely dying for a resolution to TOU but Methinks you need a bit of relaxtion after everything....Mmm a night of chocolate and movies....

The perfect formula for happiness : Ben & Jerry's + Amelie =

The weatherman in Vancouver has long since learned his lesson. The forecast here is always, "Sunny with cloudy periods and a chance of rain." He's always right. It's very Canadian, too, eh?

Not a prob, Dom.

Conner

I could send you some rain Dom? I think I'm in the second raniest place in the country so I'll just have a word with it and try and get it to go your way!

I could send you some rain Dom? I think I'm in the second raniest place in the country so I'll just have a word with it and try and get it to go your way!

Well i think im in THE rainest place so i think its only fair you take mine... I'll have a chat with the clouds tonight for you

I think the thing Dom is talking about isn't so much rtain for its own sake as for a day off, because he works outside.

I've been anxiously watching for rain too. The rain I'm looking for is the first rain of the season, defined as being enough rain to flush the crud out of the storm drains. This is my second year of volunteering for the Coastal Commission to help test the storm drains for water quality (they drop their water right into the Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary, which explains their importance). My daughter's at the University this year, and there's a tradition up there for a crowd of students to run naked in the first rain from one end of campus to the other (it's quite a feat: the University is divided into ten colleges, most of which are at the tops of rather steep paths through the forest, and the students who do this thing feel they must run to every one of the colleges). I don't even have to wonder if she's going to participate, since she has an injured sciatic nerve and can't make it up all those hills, but I know she's sort of looking forward to the general hilarity.

We had a late end to the last rainy season, but still, it hasn't rained since early June (usually it quits for good in mid-May, with very little rain after mid-April), and even though the first rain could happen any time now the season won't really get underway till late December. So construction and "allied industries" are pretty busy about now, around here.

Dang - I thought I knew where Lucy was talking about... until she said "10" colleges... So I looked at their website and ya, they are up to 10 now (9 in 2000, 10 in 2002).

:wacko:

I went there in 83-85 when there were only 8

Dang - I thought I knew where Lucy was talking about... until she said "10" colleges... So I looked at their website and ya, they are up to 10 now (9 in 2000, 10 in 2002).

 

:wacko:

 

I went there in 83-85 when there were only 8

Yes, well. I was a student there 70-75 when there were 5. And then 6. And the fifth one was called 5. That's where my kid is: it's Porter now.

Do you remember Elfland? That's where 9 and 10 are.

But there are still cows in the Great Meadow and Bambi still gatecrashes the colleges.

So, Dom -- did it rain where you are?

So, Dom -- did it rain where you are?

Nope. No rain. Just miserable, cold, weather. And sunshine that was pretty much useless. But, that

The weatherman in Vancouver has long since learned his lesson. The forecast here is always, "Sunny with cloudy periods and a chance of rain." He's always right. It's very Canadian, too, eh?

 

Not a prob, Dom.

 

Conner

Now that is where I want to live

Bah Humbug...

Oh to have cookies...(Mmm Tesco's giant chocolate chip..... *droolies*)

Question for anyone living up North and near a coastline- Less rain and far colder yet sunnier than inland?

I include evil eternal-sunshine Californians in the question...

Bah Humbug indeed! :2hands:

Oh and one other thing...

COOKIES PWN & R0x0R (sorry )

The weatherman in Vancouver has long since learned his lesson. The forecast here is always, "Sunny with cloudy periods and a chance of rain." He's always right. It's very Canadian, too, eh?

 

It rains in Canada? I didn't know that. I wonder when it does, because every map I see on our weather reports show the rain ending right at the border. I must miss seeing the maps on the days the rain manages to cross the borders.