A few sentences to refer to the weather:
It hasn't rained a drop in months!
Tell me about it! It's so difficult to breath in this scorching weather!
I've never seen such scorching weather in my life!
And the humidity! It kills me! I just hope it cools down soon.
It's been almost two months since the last rain.
Rain levels are much lower than usual. It hasn´t rained even half of the monthly average.
I'm very concerned about my crops/ orchard/ allotment.
And a few fact and figures about British Weather:
- The UK has 189 days of rain a year.
- All our rain comes from the Atlantic Ocean.
- Much of our rain starts 4000 miles away in the Atlantic.
- Every drop of our fresh water comes from the oceans.
- It's a never ending cycle.
- Swansea is the wettest city in the UK.
- The Lake District gets 69 inches of rain a year.
- It rains on average 111 days a year there.
- Rainguage Cottage is probably the wettest cottage in England.
- Emily Pratt feels proud of living in the wettest place.
- The floods of 2009 happened after 5 days of heavy rain.
- It was described as a once in a thousand year weather event.
- The power of the great British weather should never be under-estimated.
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| The Lake District in the UK |
