Rain

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

Do you like rain?

I love, love, love the rain! Always have! I'm a pluviophile if ever there was one. I think the rain is just about the best damn thing there is! We lived in Vancouver Canada for four years while I was a postdoc and it didn't rain enough for me. Their rain is usually quite soft, which is nice, but at times I longed for some heavy downpours. The sound is so primal and relaxing, and the smell of the earth before and after is incredible.

The past several years in SoCal have been horrifically dry (aside from all the other innumerable horrifying aspects of living here), but THIS year, we've had nearly 19" near where I live in Pasadena--it's been heaven! Everyone complains about it, but I think they're missing out big time! (However, I don't like driving on the freeway in SoCal at any time, but in the rain it is even worse because people here are absolutely horrible and stupid.)

Some of my best memories are of the rain. We got soaked last Spring Break in Carmel CA browsing bookstores and foodie stores--what fun! We went back to our vacation cottage in Pacific Grove, put on few logs on the fire and I sat there the whole day enjoying the aroma of my wife's gourmet cooking and the rain, rain, rain! I started my Bill Evans fascination at that point, so I put on "Here's that rainy day".

We really got soaked the last two days here--abooot 3" (75 mm). Now that it has stopped, I put on my video of rain and listen to it in the background!

One glorious day we will move out of SoCal and never look back; we are headed to a rainy climate!

[Mirror Image]

I love the rain as long as I'm not out in it!

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

[vandermolen]

I like the rain too. As a long-time sufferer from Hay Fever I hate the Summer. The rain washes the pollen out of the air. I think Beethoven liked the rain and refused to use an umbrella if out in the rain. Beethoven and I have a lot in common.

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

Beethoven and I too. Rain lovers. Hate the aristocracy. Grumpy. A thing for fugues. Love to take walks (rain or shine)!

[Florestan]

I hate the bloody rain. In The Netherlands I lived through a whole damn week of uninterrupted rain just like in the picture above. It was hell, hell I tellya. I'd rather have a mild snowfall, me inside a warm room. Better still, give me sunshine and blue sky! No effing rain, please!

[Florestan]

Hate the aristocracy.

Beethoven maybe (he was their darling, though, they sponsored him big time and one of his best friends was nothing less than an archduke), but you were born too late and in the wrong place for that, don't you think? 

[vandermolen]

Beethoven and I too. Rain lovers. Hate the aristocracy. Grumpy. A thing for fugues. Love to take walks (rain or shine)!

[Biffo]

I hate rain but not as much as I hate snow. I grew up in the North of England in an area that has some of the highest rainfall levels in Europe. Days of endless rain or grey skies are dispiriting. I now live in the south but it is not a lot better in the winter, just slightly warmer.

[Florestan]

Days of endless rain or grey skies are dispiriting.

Precisely.

[Draško]

Do you like rain?

Depends. Summer showers are great, November drizzle less so.

In general if it's over 20C when it rains I'm ok, if it's colder than that and raining I don't like it.

I like snow but only outside of city. In big city snow is just a nuisance.

Days of endless rain or grey skies are dispiriting.

Precisely.

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[Florestan]

In big city snow is just a nuisance.

This, too. When I was a child I coulld hardly wait for heavy snowfall. Now I hate it.

[vandermolen]

I have the opposite of SAD. I hate the summer but cheer up in the Autumn and Winter.

[Florestan]

I have the opposite of SAD. I hate the summer but cheer up in the Autumn and Winter.

Autumn is okay for me, here in Romania it's almost like summer, only not so warm, until well into Octiober. Winter I can't stand, the most depressing and bleak season. Were it not for Christmas and New Year's Eve and my birthday to cheer it up, I'd probably be blue all throughout.

[vandermolen]

Autumn is okay for me, here in Romania it's almost like summer, only not so warm, until well into Octiober. Winter I can't stand, the most depressing and bleak season. Were it not for Christmas and New Year's Eve and my birthday to cheer it up, I'd probably be blue all throughout.

Autumn is now my favourite season. As a child, when I had especially severe Hay Fever, it was Winter. September is my favourite month.

[schnittkease]

I live in Portland, so rain is practically a part of my being.

[Rinaldo]

Perfection.

I love rain. The sound of it, the smell of it, the mood it conjures. That said, there were certainly times when I hated it with every inch of my body – a certain midnight cloudburst while hiking in the Outer Hebrides comes to mind. Pardon my French, but that night's combo of rain & hail practically bitchslapped me all over the Butt of Lewis.

Autumn is now my favourite season. As a child, when I had especially severe Hay Fever, it was Winter. September is my favourite month.

Same here, thankfully my hay fever almost went away as I got older. September or a warm October are still my preferred months. Indian summer all the way!

[NikF4]

I'm back in Glasgow right now, which the Met. Office has found is the rainiest place (based on average numbers of rainy days) in the UK - 170 days a year. I still go for an easy 20 or 30 minute run most mornings (06:15) because the air is clean and crisp and the morlocks haven't surfaced yet.

e: at the risk if turning into a Monty Python type sketch, when (if!) I went to school it was a walk of just under three miles and usually in the rain. On the way back it was just over three miles due to a couple of friends and I detouring to a shop where on handing over five pence we'd receive one cigarette and two matches, which we'd happily smoke on the walk home. Wee 14 year old tough guys.

[Ghost of Baron Scarpia]

I like the rain, as long as there is not too much of it. Here there is basically nothing but blue sky from April through October, relentless sunshine. So I look forward to a rainy winter. But a wet year like this I start looking forward to the sun again.

[Brahmsian]

I do like and appreciate a cooling rain on a hot summer day.