I Love The Sound of Rainfall
37Thursday 01 May, 2014 by Uncle Spike
In a land where we have virtually no rain for months on end, I still enjoy the odd downpour. I know it must seem weird to many, but the thrill of a storm still get’s to us. Young Cousin Spike Jnr dons his wellies and jacket, and I grab the camera, 😀
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And then I hear the back door go… it’s Aunty Spike heading out to the veggie garden in seek of salad materials for lunch! My my, how the city gal has changed 🙂
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Rain, and what it brings (the green) is what I miss the most living in San Diego. 9 months of no rain is horrible.
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I love our 6m of summer, but love the seasons too by their contrast
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Totally with you with the magic of water. We only understand it when we live with so little precipation. Great post with a good combo of sensory details.
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I love a good storm. Well, one with lots of flash and noise but that doesn’t do much damage.
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We get 3 storms at once sometimes from different directions 🙂
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I agree. One of my most surreal moments took place when I was 18 and stoned. It was 3am, and there was a storm howling. My friend and I were sitting in my darkened room, windows open, and listening to “Riders On The Storm”…
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I think I was in that room… sounds VERY familiar
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Maybe you were there!!
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Bournemouth, UK, 1983 ?
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Kharagpur, india, 1980…
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Time delay.
Glad to know it wasn’t just us…
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Yeah!
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we will be swimming soon we have had so much rain. 2 days worth 1″ 1/2 More the rest of the week. Woof
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wow
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RAin here too, Uncle Spike. Love you little video. I too enjoy the sound of a good downpour. xx
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Your absolutely right! It can be wonderful with rain (and now we forget about the catastrophically ones).
And without the raining now and then, we wouldn’t have the green stuff. (hehe)
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Very true
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Ahhh a true brit 🙂
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Hate the stuff personally, one reason for jumping ship years ago – but a decent storm is a fun change for us. My son LOVES rain… nutter
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You’d love it today.. Buckets of the stuff..
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🙂 hmm, dunno, cleaning balconies today in hot sun – shorts n singlet the order of the day.
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Sounds just Awful.. Enjoy..
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Somebody’s gotta do it Tony
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I too love the rain, and it rains a lot here. Drizzle, downpour, thunderstorm, typhoons – all fascinate me.
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Hmm, but yours get a little crazy too – keep safe
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Hmmm….if you had no rain for ages, I guess you would miss it. But we have too much to get excited about it!
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True… we very very rarely get drizzle, just sun or storms
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You can’t beat a good heavy downpour, with a bit of thunder and lightning thrown in (so long as not tooo close!)
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we get he biggest storms ever imaginable here, surrounded by mountains – great fun 😀
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I too enjoyed the sound of rain yesterday.
The summer rain is the most welcomed natural phenomena here, which relieves our mind and body from the scorching sun.
Even though it doesn’t last more than a few minutes, it cools everything down 🙂
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yes you’ll get almost monsoons down there I guess
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Yea, Monsoon will arrive in the first week of June and then it will be non stop rain for 3-4 months 🙂
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wow… that’ll make the backwaters swell a bit I guess. I have been Kerala twice, but only in December and again in January – a different time altogether. Would love to see it it in rains though, so different.
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Monsoon is something which you should feel 🙂
Everything gets rejuvenated during this season here in coastal India.
There is one beautifully written book by Alexander Frater on Monsoon, called “Chasing the Monsoon” which I finished reading recently 🙂
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Thanks for that, might see if I can get that online.
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December and January are the best months to explore Kerala weather vice.
But monsoon months got it’s own charm and your mind will have a great soothing effect with all shades of green around.
To me, the time of Onam festival(end of August or first half of September) is the best time to explore Kerala.
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If we ever win the lottery then…
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