Do you love the rain?

xpost good cause that means i won't have to

1. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
2. Morphine - Like Swimming
3. Explosions In the Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
4. Lovage: Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By
5. Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See

except when it's evaporated piss from all the sidewalks in NYC coupled with emission residue from every factory from here to Omaha.

You need to seek out Flying Saucer Attack - "Further"

correct. unless it's drizzling. that's nice.

People run into shelters and wave umbrellas about the place like the water's going to kill them, or the ecosystem has a vendetta against them or something.

What I really dislike is warm sun right after a good rainstorm, esp. in the summer, so that all the lawns and roads start to steam and the air is chokingly humid. blech.

If I'd discovered twee music in high school, I would have been so damn twee, listening to The Sundays while looking at the rain, but instead I listened to shoegazer bands, Portishead and Joni Mitchell, which is pretty good in retrospect.

doesn't happen a lot though :(

I do like really really heavy rain though, when it comes down in sheets and the drains can't cope and everyone gapes from their windows. Mostly we just get regular rain though, with occasional drizzle and the odd shower. Interspersed with smir.

Smir, is anyone outside my family familiar with that word?

this is bullshit.

it's not raining anymore but it's cloudy.

Next time, check the weather reports. It always rains this time of year (Dec-Feb) - this is the only time it does.

And I still ADORE rain, even now, having experienced rainfall in the past 24 hours. Driving in the rain can be a pain in the ass, mostly because people around here have no fucking idea how to drive in any sort of precipitation at all, but that's the only drawback to rain I can think of. Gimme lots and lots and lots and LOTS of rain, I say! Let it POUR down!

Updated

Overnight: showers. Lows in the mid 40s. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph.
Saturday: showers ending early in the morning, then partly sunny in the afternoon. Patchy fog in the morning. Breezy with highs in the lower 60s. South winds 15 to 25 mph.
Saturday Night: showers likely in the evening, then showers with a chance of thunderstorms after midnight. Breezy with lows in the lower 50s. Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph. Gusts up to 40 mph after midnight.
Sunday: mostly cloudy with showers in the morning, then partly cloudy in the afternoon. Windy with highs in the lower 60s. Southeast winds 20 to 30 mph, decreasing to 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
Sunday Night: partly cloudy. A chance of showers. Cooler with lows around 40. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
Monday And Monday Night: partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. Lows around 40.
Tuesday: partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
Tuesday Night: partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
Wednesday: mostly cloudy. Highs around 60.
Wednesday Night And Thursday: mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Lows in the mid 40s. Highs around 60.
Thursday Night: partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
Friday: partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s

Can someone bring me some groceries??????

i LOVE it when it lightningses and thunderses here.

It is raining heavily.

I do not love the rain. Maybe a couple of times a year.

It's stopped, and the sun is out again!

i feel like a good spanking today, or anytime this week.

i just love the rain

It's pissing down here now. Fortunately, I like the rain lots.

Eek, thunder.

yess

It's pissing down here for the first time since the war. I think. Hooray!

We just got snow the other day, wtf. It's almost May.

slow drizzle today, but with warm temperatures. i like it.

so jealous xp

lol yeah is it true that aus is in a drought and they'll all have to ship off to like somewhere else?

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The rain went a little while ago. The thunder was exciting, though it is better when you're curled up on the sofa with someone else/a cat, instead of sat at a computer trying to concentrate on work.

I don't think I posted upthread, but I would have mentioned that my mum told me that when I was very little I used to dance around in thunderstorms wearing nothing but a pair of wellies. Erk!

ha! i used to dance around in the cold at night wearing my pajamas

lol yeah is it true that aus is in a drought and they'll all have to ship off to like somewhere else?

Yeah, probably. This is the first decent rain I've seen since probably August/September last year. Apart from a morning in December (where I got soaked ahead of the Xmas work party, THANK YOU) and an evening in February (where I got soaked at a Sonic Youth concert, THANK YOU), it's been bone dry.

The scary thing is that I'm used to it now...

Personally, I hope they start shipping parts of Australia off to Japan just like what happened in that classic Yahoo Serious film, Reckless Kelly.

The only reason I really enjoy rain is it means I don't have to worry about watering the oleanders outside for a few days.

i got soaked by the rain today on my bike but i still sort of love the rain

environment canada's website for mtl is all 'rainfall warning continued'
this rain really does not require a warning

yep. my favourite weather actually.

Love rain. Very excited to be moving from Denver (very sunny) to Vancouver (rainy! rainy!) in 4 weeks...

I can't stand the rain.

rain in vancouver is lovely.

Supposed to have been a 90% chance of rain all week, and it was dripping this morning but now is disorientingly sunny. I do like the rain.

http://jerryandmartha.com/yourdailyart/images/caillebotte_parisstreet.jpg

i like it when its rainy but still warm.

Amazing brief London rainstorm just now. It probably smells lovely outside.

There are lots of kinds of rain that I do not like, most of them involving me being caught outside and in danger of catching cold. Wet feet are the worst. But some rain is great:

1) a big Midwestern thunderstorm, putting on a big, loud, Wagnerian performance.

2) the mid-winter rain that washes away the dirty snow and makes room for fresh snow.

3) the hot summer afternoon rain that makes being outside tolerable again, however briefly.

4) the quiet spring rain that's perfect for opening the windows and putting "The Rain Song" by Zeppelin on the stereo.

i like a nice downpour. makes london look better and less disgusting and dirty.

I really love getting soaked on the way to work and then sitting for a whole morning with trousers that are absolutely wringing/heavy and chafing. It's a rare delight. I also love standing at a bus stop that doesn't have a shelter in the rain for half an hour in Glasgow in December and subsequently having a bout of asthma that keeps me up half the night. Also I love being splashed by cars that have driven through a large puddle that was caused by rain, staining my newly dry-cleaned trousers.

Fuck is wrong with you people?

dehydrated

jim carpet truth-bombing

all I ask for is a day full of rain, the whole day dark and grey.

these flash storms are nice but they're over in like, 5 minutes. and it's still pretty light outside.

I want it to be raining 100% of the time when I'm indoors and 0% of the time when I'm outside

fuckin' portland weather

droughts here in the nw of england, not had decent rainfall all year so far. want rain now.

everyone on this thread who says they love the rain is wrong.

i like to go for a walk and a smoke in light rain.

Haha. Came on this thread to talk about P-town but kingfish beat me to it.

Out all day yesterday in perfect weather; this morning, lots of rain while I rest warm and snug. A fine balance.

Rain is the perfect topic for small talk

I am OTM ITT. Rain is the worst.

dope rainfall patterns over london rn

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/observation/rainfall-radar#?map=SatelliteIRAndRADAR&fcTime=1431996300&zoom=9&lon=-0.00&lat=51.56

fuck off rain

In this thread we tell the life sustaining compound that comprises 60% of our body mass to fuck off :p Just about to go out for a walk in the rain and it has allowed me to put off cutting the hedges and saves me the job of watering the grass seed I planted last week, yay rain!

i like it a leetle but it's been raining for 2 weeks straight in denver it is a bit dire now.

searingly bright and then darkening to november skies in a few minutes for another squall

feel like it hasn't rained in boston in a month or something, feels wonderful today, i'm enjoying the humidity tbh

rainnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn forever pls

those look like some big bottom clouds over ldn

I didn't quite get the rain I was expecting, it went westerly but it still looked very nice.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/imq3gv79gbd7b3i/SAM_4751.JPG?dl=0

oh fuck dropbox it was a good pic that!

had a nice walk home thru Wagnerian skies, a flurry of light hail as i left work followed by intermittent brightness and dark spray

on Saturday evening i spent the absolute best 20 minutes sat with Han by the big fountain in town as the sky darkened and the wind kept swinging the spray around us

cumulonimbus is the ultimate big bottom cloud

this day is beyond

love rain, love cloudy days. think i need to move to the cascades or northern europe.

Beautiful, rainy day here in Seattle.

raining so hard in hilo the lines on the roads have completely disappeared. keeps you on yr toes

but yes it is my favorite. we had something like a drought last summer -- hard blue skies for weeks -- and i started telling people i had seasonal affective disorder

ha yes, i sometimes feel i have "reverse" seasonal affective disorder. not a huge fan of the cold, however.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tzKRBT-fE-I/UDU665V8CgI/AAAAAAAAGS0/vvC_5cQN2Pc/s1600/Gerhard+Richter+%288%29.JPG

my position's always been that cold's preferable to heat cuz you can always put on another layer but the reverse isn't true -- but this is just bias because i have extensive experience with steaming jungles and none with, like, minnesota, where i'm sure there wouldn't be enough layers in the world for me

i can kind of get into intense dry heat, it makes me feel alive and present and more connected with the cosmos or something.

Cold+rainy no, likewise having to sit at work in wet clothing. Otherwise love it, especially in the warm summer while pleasantly buzzed.

a consequence of rain is greenery and clean air

i like

good grass means good milk

cold's preferable to heat cuz you can always put on another layer but the reverse isn't true

^^^

xp also rain during allergy season means fewer allergy symptoms.

true

luv rain

hail mt rain...ier

Rave on Jackson Browne (you love the thunder, you love the rain)

Rave on Eddie Rabbit

Ill take extreme heat bc you can run around almost naked and pour water all over yourself in necessary

always good social etiquette to run around scantily clad pouring water all over yourself while you wait to be seated at your favourite restaurant

I think I'd lose my job if I tried that at work.

Need a new job imo

an inch an hour last night. fuck yeahhhhhhh

I can't say my relationship with rain is a deeply-smitten love affair. I would say I am very comfortable with it. We're old acquaintances.

"acquaintances" is a good word for what oregon calls rain. here it fucks torridly

rain where art thou

i miss the rain. a day and a half and it's over.

do love the sound of cars driving through rain

we had some rain on saturday & it was the BEST

i want more

ahaha more rain expected this week hooray

it is nice and dark/cloudy right now

Saturday night we had some monstrous rainfall, had to get out of bed and check outside because it sounded so great.

I really love getting soaked on the way to work and then sitting for a whole morning with trousers that are absolutely wringing/heavy and chafing. It's a rare delight. I also love standing at a bus stop that doesn't have a shelter in the rain for half an hour in Glasgow in December and subsequently having a bout of asthma that keeps me up half the night. Also I love being splashed by cars that have driven through a large puddle that was caused by rain, staining my newly dry-cleaned trousers.

Fuck is wrong with you people?

― jim, Monday, April 28, 2008 1:05 PM (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

still hate rain

moving to vancouver might have been a mistake

rains slightly less than in glasgow! making progress

Never thought about how penguins feel about snow but I guess love would not be the term

there are like 50 threads about how rain is dud, go over there jim in vancouver

the thread is called do you love the rain and i am answering no i do not like the rain to the question

i can't stand the rain, upon my window, bringing back sweet memories

Rain makes me want to play hooky from work and listen to vaporwave all day

https://m.imgur.com/r/Vaporwave/Mm7r8zh

the thread is called do you love the rain and i am answering no i do not like the rain to the question

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Monday, November 6, 2017 3:42 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

gah lol you are correct, i don't know why i was reviving some posi rain thread

i do agree that getting heavily rained on is no good. but that feeling when you come home and get dry/warm it rather heavenly.

sometimes i think the best is a light misting.. by the sea.. that's good stuff

wait i DO know why i was reviving some posi thread... because of the opening post.. oh well whatever *raindance*

I've converted this to an mp3 and play this when I've trouble sleeping. There's something intensely soporific and comforting about the sound of rain on a car roof.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpxJJFcWM8s

love the rain. last week i was on vacay in Portland and it was so nice just like living inside of a cloud.

I loved the rain yesterday because some jackass had had themselves a great time recreationally spraying a fire extinguisher all over the sidewalk in front of the building, leaving behind drifts of dubious yellow powder, and the rain washed it away.

yeah lurv the rain on a roof. Also the sound of rain dripping through leaves, which I get to hear from my bedroom window a lot.

really shouldn't have worn white sneakers today