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What a shower

30 July 2016

9:00 AM

30 July 2016

9:00 AM

The fact that we get sun when we expect hail and hail when we expect sun provides those of us who live in Britain with a handy subject to cover the most awkward of conversational lulls. The weather forms the backbone of our national discourse — perhaps because our own personalobservations and doom-laden predictions are about as likely to be as accurate as the official forecasts.

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