It's supposed to rain today, too. With the exception of eight notable and glorious days, it has rained in London daily since mid-September. On Friday, Manchester endured rain for the 67th of the last 69 days. Across Britain, country lanes have become creeks. Migrating ducks paddle happily on ponds that have replaced low spots in grazing fields.
Clean cars are as rare as suntans.
This is the wettest autumn in this wet country since the British began keeping weather records 224 years ago, when King George III was amassing a force to put down the rebellion in his American colonies. The previous wettest autumn was in 1852, when 17.94 inches of rain fell during September, October and November. Carol Hardin-Sohl, a former Atlantan who moved from Chicago to central London a year ago with her husband has come to loathe the weather. Color me stupid. It isn't just the fall.