It is raining, and after what feels like weeks of steadily increasing sultry heat, it has now been raining for almost an hour. But there is no relief in this rain, at least not yet. It is a light rain, light and disinterested, as if its heart really isn’t in what it has to do. It sounds as though it is tired. It is a dutiful rain, rather than a rain with a purpose. We have been promised thunder, and torrential rain, but so far we have had rain that merely congeals the dust; rain to lightly refresh anyone abroad this evening without threatening to soak them through.
The windows of the house are open, front and back, in an attempt to create a through draught, but the air is still. Clammy. Hot. The only relief from the heat inside is psychological, rather than physical. The pattering of raindrops outside. A slight increase in birdsong, despite the lateness of the hour.
I am afraid the rain does not think it is really worth all the effort and will soon pack up and leave again. Maybe it will never return.
Mick Canning 
We desperately need rain. Send it our way.
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Hanging onto every last drop!
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I think rain may just have sent one of it;s youngsters out to play before teatime. No serious games and no getting dirty. But rain won’t pack up, never to return as this is it’s Spiritual Home. Here is where it holds sway three fourths of the year just allowing gaps for hail, snow and those interludes we call Summer and Autumn.
Have faith, i’s not just Wales that is toyed with in this way, England has a reputation to uphold in he greater world as well and your faith will be well rewarded.
Huge Hugs
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I think you’re right, David. Its big brothers came out overnight, though, and they’ve been making a nuisance of themselves waking up the neighbours with their yelling and shouting.
Hugs back!
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It is taking itself a little more seriously over here at present, Michael. Hunting in packs with cold and snow and storm,
Also fog.
Ah well.
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It’s taking itself more seriously here, now, too, Frank. I’ll need to post a follow-up later today.
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Keep your head down, Mick.
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It’s raining almost every day here. But last Friday, the it was a heavy rain with thunders. It’s like not only pouring waters but also frustration and anger.
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Well ours sounds a little more angry now, but only the stamping-its-little-foot-and-pouting-angry, rather than the seriously-coming-for-you-now-angry.
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You do make me laugh, Mick. Of course the rain will return, you live in the UK, it never stops raining there. I never starts raining here … well, that’s how it feels after two full months of not a single drop and about another three months of no rain to go.
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Oh, I know, Robbie. We have rain. This is the UK. And I really missed it the years I spent in the Middle East.
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And here I thought you guys had rain all the time and it never got hot there! So, I sent you some nice hot days and took your rain for my own, and you are complaining! Okay, I’ll send your rain back to you tomorrow … how’s that? ⛈️ 😊
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If only it was that easy, Jill. Wouldn’t it solve a lot of problems?
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Indeed it would!!!
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No sign up here of rain.
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I have a feeling it’ll be arriving at the weekend.
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Hope so.
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Don’t worry, Mick, the rain will return. Maybe this rain was just to gently water
all growing things. I can see all flowers singing praise. The humid heat now is
a problem for us northerners.😊.
Miriam
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It got stuck into its task eventually, Miriam. I’ll need to update the post!
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Perfect description Mick and exactly what I thought last night. It was raining but hardly worth the effort. Hopeless rain in fact. Apparently there is a shedload expected tomorrow but we’ll see …
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Thanks, Jonno. It’s bucked its ideas up a bit since I wrote.
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Wouldn’t it be nice if we could send rain where it’s needed? Too little rain makes us anxious and depressed, too much rain makes us feel oppressed and soggy. It be nice if rain understood the phrase, “moderation is the key!”
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It would be very handy, Ann. Maybe rain does understand the phrase, but just has its own agenda.
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No sign of rain here. A pending heatwave of epic proportions, yes. Any rain coming with that would merely evaporate on the way down…
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Hope it doesn’t last for too long, Dave. Are you likely to get water shortages where you are (Portland, I think it was)?
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At the rate things are going, I suspect they’ll be asking to curtail usage as summer goes on. In Southern Oregon the drought is already in full voice, and irrigation is being shut down. I’m guessing this’ll be the rule rather than the exception in the future, and I dread the fire season.
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I think the fire season is going to be a major problem in more places in the future.
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