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it is raining.
and cold a bit.

It's raining here today also witch isn't good. But I guess it's good for the grass.

We got a HUGE rainstorm Thursday and Friday; we received 5.34 inches of rain, most of it being on Thursday!

Now it's just cloudy here with a little rain.

The rain is dissipating before it hits us now... Blah... Despite getting over five inches previously, the rain has now gone back to its old tricks of avoiding me...

rain rain rain.
it will be danger here.

Rain can't be a danger where I live, I think we had the most dry year since 2003 this year, at least up to now. It started to rain occasionally, eventually, but water level in lakes dropped quite a bit. I guess we had a big fat high pressure zone above Europe.

hahiha where do you live?

In Switzerland. I remember reading an article saying that even chinese people were hearing about our 'drought' (I hardly believe that though) and saying we're gonna have trouble... The biggest trouble we have so far is that farmers don't have a lot of grass to feed the cattle..

good country.
Alphs is cold so your country is cold too?

Yeah, the alps are pretty high, but there is the flat middleland that isn't so extremely high, and it can get hot in summer. Especially in Ticino, a canton south of the alps, that has almost Italian climate
The alps generally do affect our climate rather much...

nice climate
you live in capital of Switzerland?

Oof! Drought is the only extreme weather I don't like. I assume you know why (especially since you're experiencing it).

By the way, have you heard of the Dust Bowl? It was a period of drought during the 1930's (right after the stock market crash) that hit the US and Canadian plains.

I hope you guy's are alright over that. That is very tough going through that.

Thanks. Well it did rain since then, I honestly don't know how the water levels are right now but I guess it's not that dramatic, it could have been worse. I also personally didn't feel a lot of consequences since we didn't have to economize water yet but it was hot...
That Dust Bowl however sounds awful. It must have completely ruined so many farmers... I found this picture, it looks pretty impressive: