When did this addiction to weather-checking start? I have friends who spend hours looking at the Bureau of Meteorology radar. They seem stressed. | OPINION by Annemarie Fleming
Helping set up a stall at a local market on Saturday, a brief shower of rain came through; not enough to dampen the spirits but certainly enough to cause panic.
How on earth could this be? A lengthy stallholder discussion followed about why nobody knew about this shower of rain . It was a conversation I wanted to join just so that I could say that the brief showershown up on my radar because five minutes before it arrived, I had looked skyward. But I chose to keep schtum because all sorts of nasty stuff can happen if you get stallholders off side.
And the wording around weather has changed. Nowadays, there is no such thing as just “the weather”, it’s called a “weather event” or a “weather alert”. And we don’t seem to get heavy showers anymore.
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