Word: weatherly
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...inspiration--Diana, Princess of Wales, who died 10 years ago next month. Diana famously loved the U.S. for reasons that have seduced countless Brits over the centuries. On the western side of the Atlantic you aren't judged by your parentage or whether you streak your hair. And the weather is better...
Perhaps I ought to have been unfazed by Irish wetness. I've (more or less) survived Bostonian weather for the past two years, after all. And I'm intimately familiar with decidedly aquatic environs, one might say, given the many hours I've spent in Blodgett Pool for water polo practice...
...comes to Ireland for the weather, I'd been told over and over. Not for nothing has precipitation preoccupied Irish literary luminaries from Joyce (“It would rain for ever, noiselessly. The water would rise inch by inch…covering the monuments and mountain tops...”) to Frank McCourt (“Great sheets of rain gathered to drift slowly up the River Shannon and settle forever...”). But in July and August, I'd also been told, one could realistically hope for tolerable weather—even occasionally beautiful days...
...WEATHER 89 Number of years since snow had fallen in Argentina until Buenos Aires was blanketed on July 9 2 Number of deaths caused by the snowfall, which came after an unusually cold winter...
...WEATHER...