Raining here 
Looks pretty good to me. Nice day today with mix of sun and clouds, very light winds and 23 degrees.
I just had to turn on the lights to keep working on the very 1st day of summer.
Around Switzerland, mountains are beautiful but if you see a mountain coming your way…run!!!
People will always complain. We have a guy in the office who constantly complains that it is raining too much and allegedly too cold. Today he complained about the fact that he had booked summer holidays in Greece and now is concerned about the heat waves there.
I mean …
I enjoy going outside in the rain. It’s not a problem with me.
With the great weather in Switzerland, it’s easy to become one of those people who only go out, summer or winter, on a blue-sky day but those rainy, blustery days are great.
Thundery, stormy weather will keep me inside though and not in the hills.
The only problem I have with the rain is many garden jobs don’t get done and there is the Sunday and lunchtime curfews which limits when noisy work can be done.
We were getting föhn from Italy for a couple of days, but today we got CH leftovers. I quickly cut 2 of the 16 rose bushes yesterday in anticipation of 30L of rain today. One rose for every litre. We’ve had it all today–thunder, heavy rain, sun, more rain.
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4 posts were split to a new topic: Severe flooding in parts of Switzerland
Summer officially called off.
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Would be really useful if you could provide at least a brief precis in English. Not everyone here is fluent in German or familiar with all the local custos across Switzerland.
Yes, I think I got the drift of it, but you know…
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Really? Every web browser today has a two-click translate function. And I gave you the precis.
Swiss in Zurich base long-term weather forecast on how long a paper-mache snowman takes to burn rather than using current scientific know-how.
The wikipedia entry is worth a read.
Apparently the weather-forecasting thing is relatively new and the original Bööggs use to represent a disaster in the previous year, such as a bad year for influenza.
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Thank you. Much more than one would get through google translate.
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Deepl is much better than google, and they don’t use your data against you.
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A précis is useful as it tells me whether I should waste my time translating it or not, what you gave was not a précis as it told me nothing about the article itself.
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As you seem so concerned about not wasting time: Writing this reply took you probably 5 times longer than translating the page with two clicks.
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The reply was to make a point about the importance of summarising links and was therefore a good use of my time.
Translating articles that are of no interest to me would be a total waste of my time.
OK, mum.
Yes, and clicking through translate, working out what it really meant, searching on WTF is a Bööggs is and what it means would certainly have taken me - and every single other person who needed to - longer than it took Tom to write three lines of text to explain it.
And I wasn’t complaining about it, merely asking you nicely if you could think about doing so to make your posts more meaningful to the readership overall.
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Watch it!! He drives a black BMW. 
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Yesterday I just walked to the recycling point and got soaked within 10 mins.
Well , 2 weeks more and then fly to 40+C 