The Weather

I had heard that British people love to talk about the weather. I have found this to be true. Apparently agreeing with whatever they say is one's best bet. If they say "It's rather cold out today!" Just agree. Even if, like me, you have left two feet of snow and below freezing temperatures behind at home. Contrary to what is said about constant rain, we have had a few sunny days; Although, it is cloudy and grey most of the time here. It is even snowing right now which doesn't happen all that often, or so I'm told. It is supposed to snow 4 out of the next 5 days. But I'm sure nothing will stick, and whatever does will melt quite quickly.

My favorite quote about the weather to date happened Monday in my 9:00 class. I had walked 10-15 minutes to get there and it had snowed in the early morning but then stopped. There was no snow accumulation on the ground but some on the cars. Upon the start of class my tutor said this, "We'll wait a few minutes to start, because many people are not here. I'm sure it's weather related." I chuckled to myself as in Vermont we get many inches of snow at a time yet have had maybe one or two snow days in the past 10 years which have all fallen during break. But people here are not used to the snow; It's like the first snow fall back home. People forget how to drive in it and it seems to cause more accidents than the rest of the winter.

The other thing about the weather is I don't think anyone really knows when it's going to rain. One day last week it was supposed to rain, and it hadn't yet since I'd arrived. The weather people predicted rain starting around 1:00. It didn't rain then so they pushed it back to around 3:00. This kept happening until all evening and it didn't rain until that night when I was already asleep. Alas you never know what the weather is going to be like around here so it is always a good idea to have an umbrella! Which of course I don't have with me today...

Have a wonderfully marvelous day, cheers! ~Laura