Quotes About Weather

Un après-midi de janvier où la température était descendue à moins trente avec un vent à faire pleurer un ours polaire...

This because it is never really very cold in England. It is drizzly, and the wind will blow; hail happens, and there is a breed of Tuesday in January in which time creeps and no light comes and the air is full of water and nobody really loves anybody, but still a decent jumper and a waxen jacket lined with wool is sufficient for every weather England's got to give.

Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year.

The summer in Arizona is too hot.

Consequently, he is held to be one of the best husbands in France. Though not susceptible of lively interest, he never scolds, unless, to be sure, he is kept waiting. His friends have named him "dull weather," — aptly enough, for there is neither clear light nor total darkness about him.

Who said anything about justice? There's no such thing. But injustice is as much a part of life as the weather.

There are events we can't control, but we believe we can. We waste time complaining about the weather, or futilely trying to control or manipulate spouses or employees or our children. Conversely, there are events we can control, but we believe we can't.

Rain, after all is only rain; it is not bad weather. So also, pain is only pain; unless we resist it, then it becomes torment.

Hansen et al. have made the case that we are no longer waiting for evidence of global warming. It is clearly here now, affecting a wide variety of weather and climate events, and it will continue to grow as we burn more fossil fuels…. Even the apparently normal distribution of temperature can display non-normal behavior, and this can lead to extremes of even greater magnitude than might otherwise be expected.8

It reflects like an optical instrument and responds to changes in the weather so sensitively that it seems like a part of the sky rather than of the land. And along with all that, Baikal is distinctly Asiatic: if a camel caravan could somehow transport Baikal across Siberia to Europe, and curious buyers unwrapped it in a marketplace, none would mistake it for a lake from around there.

yes, just another monsoon day out there in the Big City …

It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.

This was the winter of 2008/9. Work was ongoing to reinstate a tram system in the city. A lot of people couldn't see the point of trams and many more disliked the disruption. Streets were closed off. There was almost a sense of 'apartheid' as the roadworks made it difficult to move from New Town to Old Town and vice versa. Added to which, the weather was fairly grim. And the banks looked ready to implode.

Rain wasn't quite falling yet, but it had scheduled an appointment.

was still a fine, persistent drizzle. There was a word in Scots for it—"smirr.

The rain had not started falling yet, but it had scheduled an appointment.

Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

We told him to call the local veterinarian and take some photos. The photos showed three small pathetic calves huddled in the thirty-below weather.

It was raining a motherfucker. It was raining a Dostoyevsky novel. It was raining a Kurosawa film. It was raining a Trout Mask Repilca.

If you're looking at the weather, it's shitty, with a chance of shittier.

stood at the door zipping, buttoning, fastening; it's what people in Wyoming do before they go outside in late December.

It was one of those late summer days that sometimes showed up in early October after a killing frost—warm, dry, and hazy; Indian summer. The term is over two hundred years old, coined in 1778 by the French American writer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur to describe the warm calm before the winter storm.

We stood at the door zipping, buttoning, fastening; it's what people in Wyoming do before they go outside in late December.

I looked at the sky with its patchwork of sun and storm clouds—the devil must be beating his wife indeed. I bet I was the only one who used that phrase anymore. I