Why do I rarely, if ever, hear people get excited about rain?
Just yesterday, the female radio DJ, in the weather forecast, said in an extremely happy and perky voice -- " for the next three days, PLENTY of sunshine . . ." She was practically losing bowel control she was so happy.
I've never heard anyone in the same tone of voice say - - "for the next three days, PLENTY of rain . . ."
Firstly see a hearing specialist to see if you are deaf.... Next look out of you window to check you don't live in the centre of a very arid dessert.... and remember that ole saying.....The Reins in Spain stays mostly on a horse ..... :)
As others have mentioned here in their answers, you apparently don’t live in Southern California, where we’ve been plagued by severe drought for at least a decade, and no end is in sight. When we’re blessed with even a few drops of precipitation, it’s a very welcome event. I do, however, have a problem with the way EVERY SINGLE NEWSCAST not only leads with “it‘s raining, it’s pouring” stories, but they also go on and on and on for ten or fifteen minutes of coverage about it, and that’s just the thirty-minute broadcasts. Get a grip already, you know what I’m saying? So I commiserate with you, my friend: some folks certainly go overboard about the topic. ~
Yeah, I admit I was thinking of my own 'local' impressions about the local weather. And, no surprise, I'm very partial to cloudy, overcast and rainy weather. And I tire easily of so many people equating "beautiful" weather with only dry and sunny weather.
So, in your case, it may be more of the opposite? That when it rains, people get overly excited about it on the news broadcasts? That'd be interesting for me to hear.
Yeah, the no-rain predicament would not be so good, though. Here's to the rain for your area! :)
You've never lived in outback Australia. Parts of the sheep/wheat belt are in the grip of the worst drought in living memory. They are trucking water in just for drinking and culling livestock.
I admit - - and I'm glad to have posted the question - - I realize that I was self"-centered in my question - -basing it simply on my local perception. Thanks, Slartibartfast. Always good to see you. (I heard by chance -- and enjoyed - - Icehouse the other day - - thought of you.)
:)
Here's to a lot of rain to the outback
This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at August 4, 2019 1:34 PM MDT
Plenty of people in Britain wanting less rain, and others wishing for a little more, at present.
With torrential rain bringing floods in parts of the North of England, and the weakened canal-feeder dam at Whaley Bridge (English Midlands) presently in the news; whilst here in the South we've no more than some heavy but short showers for some while now.
' I've a friend who says he becomes rather annoyed when in cold Winter weather, people say to him, "I wish it would warm up a bit!" To which apparently his usual riposte is, "Then it'll rain, and you'll complain about that!"
According to comedian Andy Parsons, the two top British pastimes are queuing and moaning. And they only enjoy queuing so they can have a good moan about it.
He's wrong about the queuing at least - we don't complain about that because it's only good manners - but we might well have good reason to complain at what we're queuing for, or why it's making us queue more than should be necessary!
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