Ah, the weather!

Aline writes: I just had to include an entry about the weather, which is amazingly changeable. It seems like the temperature changes about 20 degrees during the day, often in the 15 minutes it takes for us to go into an underground station, ride a few stops, and come back out. Londoners seem to be very practical, in that the minute the sun comes out, so do they. For example, around the corner at the Borough market yesterday, the sun came out around 5:00, and this Thames-side pub filled with people enjoying the (temporary) good weather. Notice the beautiful blue sky reflected in the windows...


Within about 20 minutes of taking this picture, it dropped about 15 degrees as the wind picked up, and started raining. It says something when the BBC weather tells you what it will be like every 3 hours. Here is the forecast for today:

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As you can see by today’s forecast, typically, for some reason, it clears up around 5:00. Just in time for happy hour I have noticed, and the pubs with outdoor seating are crammed full. In fact, I can be wearing a sweater (because I have a comfort range of about 10 degrees Bill says) and there will be people out in shorts and t-shirts. Perhaps my skin will be thicker by the end of a year here!

The good news is that the bad weather never lasts. The bad news is that the good weather doesn’t either ☺.