I had a wide-ranging conversation with someone the other day - it went from various nuclear issues to different types of rain (wonder how that topic started). It made we wonder if there was a web-page detailing the various types of rain run by someone like the Rob McKenna the Quasi Supernormal Incremental Precipitation Inducer in So Long and Thanks For All the Fish. I don't mean the three or four specific and scientific types of rain but the various different feelings - the experience that the rain gives people on the ground. I realise that trying to divide rain up into types is like trying to determine how many colours there are in a rainbow but we shall have a go. The Cloud Appreciation Society would seem like a good starting point but they don't seem to have anything other than the rain CD. So today I am starting with Medium-heavy rain mixed with squally, medium-to-heavy winds - rain that can occasionally, with help from the wind, get inside the house under the doors and will sometimes get across the room inside if the window has been left open. Days like these are quite cold but often refreshing after long periods of stifling heat. This sort of rain smell specifically like a corner of the garden from many years ago before we started using chemicals to help it out.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Precipitational Nomenclature
I had a wide-ranging conversation with someone the other day - it went from various nuclear issues to different types of rain (wonder how that topic started). It made we wonder if there was a web-page detailing the various types of rain run by someone like the Rob McKenna the Quasi Supernormal Incremental Precipitation Inducer in So Long and Thanks For All the Fish. I don't mean the three or four specific and scientific types of rain but the various different feelings - the experience that the rain gives people on the ground. I realise that trying to divide rain up into types is like trying to determine how many colours there are in a rainbow but we shall have a go. The Cloud Appreciation Society would seem like a good starting point but they don't seem to have anything other than the rain CD. So today I am starting with Medium-heavy rain mixed with squally, medium-to-heavy winds - rain that can occasionally, with help from the wind, get inside the house under the doors and will sometimes get across the room inside if the window has been left open. Days like these are quite cold but often refreshing after long periods of stifling heat. This sort of rain smell specifically like a corner of the garden from many years ago before we started using chemicals to help it out.
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