Re: Pigeon Post Summers


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Posted by Robert Dilley on June 03, 1999 at 18:08:54 from geog-rc2006f.lakeheadu.ca:

In Reply to: Pigeon Post Summers posted by Lionel Hill on June 03, 1999 at 11:23:28:

As a geographer, I have long had the ambition to write something about AR and weather -- maybe this will spur me. As someone who grew up on the northern fringes of the Lake District I can assure Lionel that it rains far more often in reality than in AR. I remember my brother, after about ten days of unbroken cloud and rain, kneeling in worship at the first patch of blue sky.
However, it would be difficult to maintain the excitement of a set of outdoor adventure stories through a typical Lake District summer. Rain *does* occur in the stories: the storm on Wild Cat in SA, the deluge that wipes out the dam in SD, the rain leaking through the roof of the Dogs' Home in PM.
And there *are* summers like those in PP. I remember some from my childhood (one on the mid-50s, though I can't pin it down more precisely). I was there for the summer of 1995, when it was so dry I could walk around the remains of Mardale, drowned when the level of Hawes Water was raised to provide water to Manchester.
Finally, our memories recollect fine weather far more than ceaseless drizzle, and AR is appealing to the memories of adults in his stories.
Chances are though, Lionel, that if you visit Rio it will be raining!



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