@thor Likewise here. Very rainy all day, and my patio furniture were all blown aside.

@trinsec if so, this is all your fault, lol. this low pressure came from the UK.

@thor Nope, Netherlands. Not that far off. We can collectively blame the UK!

@trinsec has it been raining in the Netherlands for 3 months too? Oslo has been like that.

@thor Not 3 months straight. But it has been pretty damn wet regularly. I can barely remember a day where it didn't rain.

@trinsec i mean, i'm putting it to a point. there *have* been non-rainy spots here and there, but i was beginning to have trouble remembering what a clear sky looked like... someone jokingly said "i can't handle this! i'm not from Bergen!" (Bergen being a city in Norway that gets insane amounts of rain)

@thor Hehehehe. I can't handle this! I'm not a Brit!

@mur2501 @trinsec europe isn't *supposed* to have a rainy season. that's the somewhat unnerving thing...

@thor @trinsec
Here 4 months of rainy season is fixed from june to october when it rains like hell without stopping. :ablobblewobble:
so crabs, frogs, snails and snakes are seen all around :ablobcatangel:

@trinsec
kind of, atleast for the Western Ghats which receives most of the rain in India and the other side gets just a little :ablobcaramelldansen:
Western Ghats are a barrier for moisture laden clouds.
@thor

@mur2501 Is at the other side of the western ghats mountains dry?

If so, you're living on the wrong side of that mountain range!

@thor

@trinsec
ofcourse it's drier on the other thought not a total desert. Also the doil on this side is red and not rich in minerals while on the other side it's black and very ideal for various types of farming.
I like been wet, rainy season is my favourite sobI am on the right side

clearly seen in the map, the western coast receives alot of rain.
@thor

@mur2501 Ok yeah, that's really a shitton of rain. I'd have moved away from that! 😋

What about that area in the far east? Taht seems to be a perpetual rainy area as well. Another mountain range blocking the clouds?

@thor

@trinsec
The north east India is where the moisture laden clouds from the Bay of Bengal meet the foothills of the Himalayas and hence the rain.
@thor

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@mur2501

After checking around a little, I've come to the following conclusion for my country:

We have on average about 800mm a year of precipitation. That hasn't changed significantly over time.

My area is a little over 190 days a year some sort of precipitation. That means that every month at least half of it has had some sort of rain/hail/snow/whatever.

It's also getting extremer. Summers are starting to be extremely dry while winters are getting wetter than ever.

@thor

@trinsec
my town receives around 1400mm each month in the rainy season
@thor

@trinsec @thor
The articles is very good at describing that the poor farmers who don't even know any word like 'climate change' are feeling each and every effect of it very accurately and extremely.

@mur2501 Yeah, I skimmed through it a bit. Looks like a pretty hard life at the moment.

Even our technologically advanced farmers are having a lot of trouble dealing with the drought during the summers.

For example, we got tiny potatoes this year. Not really a huge issue, since they're edible and we get our food. And likely they get compensated too by the EU. But it goes to show that it affects us all worldwide.

@thor

@trinsec
now the family of farmers are only been able to have one meal a day as they have to somehow do with the little harvest of grain till the next rainy season :blobcatverysad:
@thor

@mur2501 :blobcatsad:
I'm of opinion that everywhere needs to adapt in rigorous ways.

For example, I'm living in a country that's half below sea level. We'll probably face floods in the future. So we have to make an intricate network of waterways.

See, the trend was that in the last century we had been changing canals into roads. Filled 'em up and made cars go over them.

I think we need to change them back into canals again, control the water so they won't control us in the near future.

I think the same concept applies to your country. Maybe you need a canal network so that in case of too much rain the water can go away easier, and in case of too little rain there's water available.

Not sure how well that'd work if it's bloody hot and stuff could evaporate, but I'm thinking along those lines of drastic changes of infrastructure to survive the climate change.

@thor

@trinsec
That's something which the Dutch can do kinda good but nah, not feasible here. Also you should read the full article completely to understand all the factors.
@thor

@mur2501
:blobstare:

Your town is singletownedly able to flood my whole country. :blobcatshocked:

@thor

@mur2501 @trinsec that's pretty heavy. Bergen gets 2250 mm per year. but it has a little rain for 242 of 365 days a year, so basically, it's raining a little all the time.

@thor
A drizzling rain 242 days a year?

Ye gods, that's probably worse.
I'm not decided yet...

POURING rain or -drizzling- rain..

Eh, I'll stay where I am. ;)

@mur2501

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