Talking About Weather

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"Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." Thank you, Mark Twain, for popularizing this humorous expression. Let's add to the humor with a few Scottish weather-related expressions.

"In Scotland, there's no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes."

"Today's rain is tomorrow's whisky."

"There are two seasons in Scotland:  June and Winter."

Seriously though, we quite like the weather here. It is moderate. Throughout Spring, Summer, and Autumn (they don't say "Fall" here) the lows are in the 40's and highs in the 50's or 60's. Never hot and never cold. Also, never humid. And although clouds and mist/drizzle do occur, we get less rain here than in Roanoke. Really. We also get wind, almost every day. Scotland is the windiness country in Europe. That explains why almost 100% of the electricity in Scotland comes from wind generation.