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It's pelting down as I write this. I think the list needs to include the infamous "mizzle" - nothing actually falling, just that annoying wet air quality. And let's not forget the kind of downpour that prompts the quintessentially British response: "I think it's clearing up a bit over there." Where "over there" actually is I have yet to discover, but I live in hope.
Waterhouse | 17.01.14 - 7:30 a.m. | #
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I think the descriptive for #2 should be "London Underground puts up warnings about adverse weather and slippery floors"
IanVisits | 17.01.14 - 7:32 a.m. | #
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It would go a long way towards helping to explain to people that London is technically a fairly dry city. Or at least dryer than Rome, New York, and other places not normally considered to be particularly wet.
The reason of course being that London weather is in the 1-3 categories for fully 2/3rds of the year while the other places get category 10s for just a few weeks.
Chz | 17.01.14 - 7:52 a.m. | #
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Brilliant, Sir, just brilliant. I particularly applaud your use of the word deluge.
Karen | Homepage | 17.01.14 - 8:14 a.m. | #
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Would you rather it be rainy and mild though, or freezing cold with ice on the ground? I'll take the rain...
geofftech | 17.01.14 - 8:30 a.m. | #
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Well done for not using "Biblical Proportions" although you were close with Noah
PL | 17.01.14 - 8:37 a.m. | #
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Give me sunny and cold any day. Specially when it's been 10-12 the past 6 weeks!
Bronchitikat | 17.01.14 - 10:05 a.m. | #
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http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Rob_McKenna
Need an online weather page that scrapes the Met office reports and translates to the McKenna scale... WHY HAS THIS NOT BEEN DONE?!
Audrey | 17.01.14 - 10:33 a.m. | #
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/dna/place-lancashire/plain/A14281265
Audrey | 17.01.14 - 10:35 a.m. | #
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I currently call Force 1, "Water in the wind".
Alex | 17.01.14 - 10:58 a.m. | #
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Geezer, Mile End, Blogpost. Southwest downpour 8 to tipping down 10, veering west, cloudburst 9 to deluge 11. Cagoules, then inside-out brollies. Lamp-post, becoming spectacles.
xx
Auntie Doris | 17.01.14 - 11:23 a.m. | #
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I definitely think my favourite Scottish word 'dreich' should be included somewhere.
And no 4 or 5 could perhaps read: 'Stoical Brits continue to enjoy barbecues and picnics despite growing discomfort.'
Whiff | 17.01.14 - 12:00 p.m. | #
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Love it. Here in Derby we cycle eternally between 2 and 10.
12 should include, 'being outside for five seconds drenches you to the point that you look like a drowned rat five hours later', as I recently found out whilst visiting Nigeria.
misspiggy | 17.01.14 - 12:06 p.m. | #
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Please send 7-12. We are currently surrounded by bushfires and there is no rain in sight.
Antipodean | 17.01.14 - 12:10 p.m. | #
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Sorry to go off topic. I can't scroll the comments in Chrome and have to resort to Internet Explorer whereas every other webpage seems to work fine. Is it just me?
Pedantic of Purley | 17.01.14 - 12:14 p.m. | #
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Chrome is working fine for me on my Android tablet.
Whiff | 17.01.14 - 12:17 p.m. | #
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Chrome working fine for me on a PC.
Maybe you have pop-ups blocked with Chrome? Comments appear in a pop-up.
Alan Burkitt-Gray | 17.01.14 - 12:45 p.m. | #
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Aunty Doris: brilliant!!!
Meanwhile, back to the millimetres per hour. It strikes me that this is also the ideal unit to measure the speed of a snail, or of an LT ticket office queue. Though perhaps microns per second would be a scientificker choice.
Malcolm | 17.01.14 - 1:16 p.m. | #
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Audrey (above) seems to be suffering from some confusion between Paul McKenna, the footballer who has a hunger scale named after him, and Rob McKenna, an ordinary rain god from the Addams family...
Malcolm | 17.01.14 - 1:24 p.m. | #
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While not in itself a measurement of how hard the rain falls I suggest we begin with:
Drought. A longing for rain of any intensity; Well digging becomes fashionable; Barbecues MUST withdraw indoors; "Climate change deniers tut and say it proves nothing".
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Ha ha ha ha, I love ruminating on the weather and I did enjoy those definitions.
Vicki | 17.01.14 - 1:49 p.m. | #
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My husband has a rain gauge in our garden. He has kept records for a number of years. Recently it has started exclaiming 'raining cats and dogs'. Things must be getting worse.
Margaret | 17.01.14 - 1:50 p.m. | #
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The Geyser Scale? I like it
Ham | 17.01.14 - 4:34 p.m. | #
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"Après moi, le déluge" was a jokey catchphrase in my family but I've no idea why!
@PofP: Chrome comment-scrolling trouble here too.
Great Aunt Annie | 17.01.14 - 7:59 p.m. | #
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Lovely, thanks, DG. And I enjoyed Auntie Doris' comment too.
Suse | 17.01.14 - 8:24 p.m. | #
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I can't scroll in Android either! I can page up and down though...
Mikey C | 17.01.14 - 8:42 p.m. | #
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I can't see any issue with the comments scrolling either... I know the new release of Chrome is a little flakey as I have had issues all day at work with it (I am a web developer)
Kirk | 17.01.14 - 9:27 p.m. | #
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Where's the category for rain delivered with hail....light hail, flurries of hail and rock hard golf balls of hail?
B | 17.01.14 - 9:46 p.m. | #
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Ah Britain's favourite topic of conversation has served us well so far this year!
I'm hoping it's an indication of a long hot summer, to balance things out!
Well I can dream!
CornishCockney | 18.01.14 - 12:16 a.m. | #
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I think you jinxed it: no rain yesterday!
martin | 19.01.14 - 1:57 p.m. | #
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