On Vox: The sun always shines on TV
In the North of England there is a village called Seathwaite. Not so long ago, it was officially the wettest place in the country, and it's about six miles South of Keswick. Given the current weather in England, you'd expect Seathwaite and Keswick to be Atlantis-esque.
Derwentwater
Only it isn't!
I took this on my way to work this morning, detouring ever so slightly down to the lakeside for a photo opportunity. Sure, there's a few grey clouds up there, but that was at ten this morning. The clouds soon disappeared by lunchtime, and it was scorching hot. Unfortunately, I was stuck at work until 5ish, so I couldn't enjoy it as much as I wanted to. I'm not a huge fan of red-hot summers since I usually have to sit through one session of awful sunburn before I start tanning nicely, but there was a cool breeze as well today, which made it just right. The closest the rain has got to us in any severe sense is Alston, where one incident occured.
Abandoned
Keswick got its fair share of floods back in 2005. This photo is a famous one 'round here, and it always makes me laugh. The guy in the car was some stubborn tourist who stuck two fingers up at the impending doom and tried to drive out of town, only to have to clamber out of his sunroof thirty seconds later.
I do quite like floods and storms and such -- they're beautiful sometimes, so I'm kinda disappointed that there's no torrential downpours here. The forecast (which has been right for the most part) claims heavy rain for Thursday onwards. I doubt it will amount to much, but, hey, if it leads to time off work then bring it on.
They say we're caught in a jetstream, which sounds like something from Star Trek at first. The type of jetstream that is engulfing Britain at the moment is one you'd expect in the Winter, so that's kinda amiss. There was some good footage on television before, going into detail about why Summer has gone all wrong this year.
I'll leave you now with a photograph I took about thirty minutes ago. This is from my bedroom window.
Rooftops
Lovely tonight, ain't it?
Originally posted on seigerweiss.vox.com