Is it any wonder that I complain so much about the weather?
Before going out with Ollie today, I checked the BBC weather news at lunchtime. When they got to this area, the man smiled and said, “there will be a chance of a shower in the east.” Fair enough, I am warned.
Out with Ollie, I took along my umbrella, and there was a shower or two. I had taken my precautons, and managed to avoid the worst of the precipitation. By the time we were heading home, around 3.40 pm, it was best described as ‘continuous rain.’ By 4 pm, it was heavy enough to sound on the roof, and spatter the windows. I headed off for my trip to the supermarket, and immediately needed full-speed wipers in the car.
The rain on the road was making a fair bit of noise. In dips and corners, it had accumulated enough for passing cars to splash unwary pedestrians. In Dereham, people were running from the downpour, and it seemed that almost everyone had been caught out by the late rain. By the time I got to Tesco’s car park, a dash of just over one hundred yards to the sanctuary of the interior was enough to give me a reasonable soaking.
I drove back in more heavy rain, and unloaded the car, protected by the tailgate. As I type this, I can hardly hear the sound of the TV in the next room, for the noise of the rain.
BBC, please take note. That is not the ‘chance of a shower.’ Not by anyone’s reckoning.
beetleypete 
I love weather because it’s one of the few things that mankind can’t control. It just does what it wants and thumbs its nose at the scientists and billionaires. 🙂
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Indeed it does. However, billionaires have the distinct advantage of being able to follow the better weather around the globe, travelling first class, whereas I have to tolerate whatever is thrown at me in Beetley.
Regards from Norfolk, Pete.
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Shower becomes a deluge. We have thunderstorms here almost every day and they usually last for more than an hour but when it rains, it pours.
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It must be awful to have thunderstorms every day, Arlene. I suppose that is the price of the lush tropical plant life, and exotic flowers. I hope that you have a good umbrella!
Best wishes, Pete.
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I seldom go out Pete, so it’s really no problem for me but every time it rains specially during peak hours, traffic is always inevitable.
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At least today here there was no doubt as it was raining in the morning but then it cleared up, and other than a few drops, it has behaved. I’ve seen weather forecast be quite precise when matters were important (I remember volunteering years ago in Barcelona to cordon a street during John Paul II’s visit and they warned us the day before that it would rain, and they were right). I had to come and live here to understand why people seemed to talk about the weather so much, here.
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It is a national obsession indeed, Olga, and one I have been afflicted with!
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The weather always get it wrong, never trust them.
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Trust never comes into it mate, just frustration and annoyance! The Met Office have lost the BBC contract for weather forecasts, and it will taken over by a private company. No doubt it will get even worse!
Cheers, V. Pete.
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LOL. Sorry to laugh, but your post was funny in a “Murphy’s Law” kind of way. Maybe 2016 your theme will be about a drought. 😉 Seriously, sorry you are water-logged.
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It was meant to be amusing, Cindy, so no apology necessary. It has been dry today. So far…
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Don’t put your brolly away….
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Oops. Pressed ‘send’ by mistake. I was going to add… ‘Hence my somewhat obsessive interest in staying dry.’
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I have seen mobility scooters with proper rain covers around here, Ros.
http://www.scootamart.com/mobility/canopies/scooter-capes-and-covers/all-window-canopy.html
They are not very cheap, but look like they work well. Ideal for Beetley!
Best wishes, Pete.
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Lol. This is why I always use the Met Office website. If I can see from the cloud/rain forecast map that there is ‘a chance of a shower’ I take a look at the latest radar/cloud/rain observation map, run the sequence to see how fast everything is moving and then make an estimate of when said ‘showers’ are likely to hit and how long they are likely to last. Then make my decision accordingly. Getting wet on a mobility scooter is a fairly yucky affair because you end up sitting in it… unless, of course, you have some sort of voluminous cape. I don’t.
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Ah, we had the showers in the morning followed by a gloriously sunny afternoon. You’d be much better walking Ollie here in the west – or maybe you need to change his walk time to the morning!
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He likes to sleep until midday, Jude. He’s an afternoon kind of dog! x
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My sort of dog then 😉
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Here in Nevada, it’s cloudy with a chance of meatballs, meaning if you are hoping for rain, you’re a meatball.
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No meatballs here, David. It is still raining…
Best wishes, Pete.
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The BBC weather has a reputation to protect since Mr Fish made his predictions in 87 (was it?)
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Many of his colleagues from those days are still around, Eddy. Jim Bacon was forecasting today. I suspect that he was hedging his bets!
Cheers mate, Pete.
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