T/S: Snow Vs Rain

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Now, before you all jump up and down saying it's so obviously snow, don't forget to consider that horrible "wintry shower" snow that is all some places ever get, plus the slush factor, plus the heartbreak involved in snow starting, then stopping, then starting again, then not settling, then settling but melting before you leave the office. Plus road accidents etc.

Then have a think about warm summer rain, with attendant thunderstorms, rainbows and romantic daliances with bare-footed floaty-dressed long-haired girls in grassy meadows...

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

What about rogue hail fans?

― I ate myself. I want a pie. (kate), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

Can you get snowbows?

Rain is good when it stops, when everything's shiny.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

I like rain a lot. Especially the really thick air-cleaning thunder and lightning kind you get in late summer when you really need it because the air is so oppresive. Or autumn rain when you are tucked up all snuggly with a book, looking out a window.

But then again, snow is gorgeous and makes everything look so pretty.

― I ate myself. I want a pie. (kate), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

I love the smell of mud after a good rain, so rain I guess. Also snow has too many by-products: salt, slush, dog pee spotted snow. Yuk.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/AA_Impressionist/images/Caillebotte_med.jpg

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

I think we've already had the conversation about making out in the rain...the upshot being that it's nice. But that's assuming a warm spring rain that can be trusted to be reasonably clean aka not full of city smog particles.

I know, I am SUCH a killjoy. But making out, yum.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

rain is only good if it is proper hardcore full-on omg the air is just entirely made of water kind of rain, whether it's summer or winter. most of the time here it's just a persistent drizzle, like it wants to rain but can't really be arsed, which is no fun at all - you can't even bundle up and go out in it cos you just get all sweaty and 'orrible. snow otoh is ALWAYS great whether it sticks or no, whether it's a few floaty flakes or a full-on blizzard. plus if it does stay around it hardpacks down to make excellent SLIDES (ah, memories, we had a v slopey playground in our primary school), and you can throw it at people, and build stuff out of it, and sledge on it, and... on yet a third hand, i have been reading today about our impending drought, so i'm up for some rain-dancing...

― emskatworkin WESTLAHNDAHNohnoes!, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

I like 'em both. Though, rain is more important. Hail storms are ace too.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

snowsnowsnowsnowsnow

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

I like a light, misty, can't really be bothered to rain properly kind of rain if it's an otherwise warm day and the rain cools you down. Kind of like we had on the Paddington Canal Walk? That was good rain.

― I ate myself. I want a pie. (kate), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

i was not on that walk, i was zipping around leafy lanes in hertfordshire, where it was bright and clear. i do not recall it raining on my epic ride from finsbury park to southall either.

― emskatworkinWESTLAHNDAHNohnoes!, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

that kind of rain = frizzy hair

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

I do like getting really, really soaked by a complete downpour, even if it's a little chilly...preferably within walking distance of home and dry clothes! One Jersey City summer, in my old oven -- I mean, apartment -- the heat wave was FINALLY ending, and blessed coolness was ushered in by a thunderstorm, but because of our window arrangement none of the cross-breeze was getting in. So roommate and I put on puddle-jumping clothes and walked around Grove Street neighborhood until we had our fill of rain, then back to peel out of wet clothes, all newly cooled off. Rain.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I forgot you were not on that walk because you turned up for curry anyway.

I like rain where it is super pouring down heavy, or else so light you don't even have to put on a hat, let alone raise your umbrella.

x-post (My hair is so fine that frizzy hair is a welcome volume lift. Emsk, however, I don't think it makes a difference to!)

― I ate myself. I want a pie. (kate), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

"I like a light, misty, can't really be bothered to rain properly kind of rain if it's an otherwise warm day and the rain cools you down"

1) Go to Kew Gardens (£10 entry for adults)

2) Enter the Princess of Wales Glasshouse (not named after Di, but opened by her in 1987)

3) Find the room full of orchids

4) Enjoy the pleasing temperature, then wait for the fine water sprays that kick in every now and then to keep it humid. There's one up near the back door that you can stand right underneath.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Walking through a field with my little brother Seth

I pointed to place where kids had made angels in the snow.
For some reason, I told him that a troop of angels
had been shot and dissolved when they hit the ground.

He asked who had shot them and I said a farmer.

Then we were on the roof of the lake.
The ice looked like a photograph of water.

Why he asked. Why did he shoot them.

I didn't know where I was going with this.

They were on his property, I said.

When its snowing, the outdoors seem like a room.

Today I traded hellos with my neighbor.
Our voices hung close in the new acoustics.
A room with walls blasted to shreds and falling.

We returned to our shoveling, working side by side in silence.

But why were they on his property, he asked.

Snow - DCBerman

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

that light rain makes my already frizzy hair EXTRA FRIZZY :( this year i have only washed my hair twice so far, the second time was a few days ago. let's see if i can make a bottle of hippy seaweed shampoo last a year.

ahhhh in hk after the summer rainy season stopped we had uniformly hot dry weather for like the next two months. i LOVED it obv cos i could swan around barefoot in shorts and tshirt but omg when we finally got a rainstorm it was a PROPER one with thunder and lightning (and oh! it brought a plague of gurt fuckoff MASSIVE insects the like of which i have not seen before or since and the next morning they were all dead all over campus like a carpet of soggy wings) and me and some other eurokids went out running and cartwheeling and jumping in puddles and got soaked. i had never realised before how much i missed rain, thinking it something more to be whinged about than enjoyed.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

rain is grebt but snow is bettah

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

"Don't you like a rather foggy day in a wood in autumn? You'll find we shall be perfectly warm sitting in the car."
Jane said she'd never heard of anyone liking fogs before but she didn't mind trying. All three got in.
"That's why Camilla and I got married," said Denniston as they drove off. "We both like Weather. Not this or that kind of weather, but just Weather. It's a useful taste if one lives in England."
"How ever did you learn to do that, Mr. Denniston?" said Jane. "I don't think I should ever learn to like rain and snow."
"It's the other way around," said Denniston. "Everyone begins as a child by liking Weather. You learn the art of disliking it is you grown up. Noticed it on a snowy day? The grown-ups are all going about with long faces, but look at the children - and the dogs? They know what snow's made for."
"I'm sure I hated wet days as a child," said Jane.

"That's because the grown-ups kept you in," said Camilla. "Any child loves rain if allowed to go out and paddle about in it."

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

That's one thing the English sure have a lot of, is Weather. :-)

― I ate myself. I want a pie. (kate), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

puir Ned has no Weather at all!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

it rained in L.A. two days ago!

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

gear lies

when he types

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Enough of this quibbling, and more about the lovely, beautiful rain:

http://bill-hay.com/SpringTrip/Rainy_day.jpg

― I ate myself. I want a pie. (kate), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

wheres that thread about the smell of things after it rains?

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

Rain rain rain.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

Rain is good when it stops, when everything's shiny.

I think that's the sweetest thing I've ever read.

It really does depend on the type of rain though. Proper rain is good and beats lame snow. But lame snow beats lame rain. And proper snow beats everything.

― uptoeleven (uptoeleven), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

Rain reigns.

― Abbott (Abbott), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

It's sunny today. Cold and clear and bright beats all.

― I ate myself. I want a pie. (kate), Thursday, 2 March 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

So roommate and I put on puddle-jumping clothes and walked around Grove Street neighborhood

Laurel and flatmate, yesterday:

http://files.gtanet.com/images/45.jpg

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 2 March 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

for reasons unknown to me the word 'puddle' makes me angry and highly offended

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

Wow bright blowy blizzard here right now - pretty!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

can we plz abolish the TV meteorologist jargon "wintry mix"??? And use something more menacing, like SLIPPERY SHIT?

A local website claims we have FREEZING FOG in Brooklyn right now! wtf?

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 January 2011 03:37 (fourteen years ago)

That means that you think you're walking/driving into fog, but it is, in fact, A WALL OF SOLID ICE.

― Son of Sisyphus of Reaganing (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 27 January 2011 05:13 (fourteen years ago)

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