h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Only six? I thought it was a quite rainy place with at least 20 names for the rains...

.. no more than six? ..

ah, we're a farmer nation .. there's at least forty different types of rain here good thing I'm not a farmer, I can stay dry

Well, there are infinite stages of each...

But the basic types (in Low German) are:

stippeln
dröppeln
fiseln
pladdern
gallern
pleistern

(and lüchten, but that's a thunderstorm)

But then you can't ask for financial support because of bad weather.

No, you're expected to prepare for bad weather, I think...

We always know it's going to be stormy when the neighbour brings the cows in early. Sure sign.

Naah, farmers in EU are supposed to get all possible subsidies, supports, aids, refunds etc. That's the key to the trade.

As about the cow, there was this story about how cold the winter will be.

It was October and the Indians on a remote reservation asked their new
chief if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild.

Since he was a chief in a modern society he had never been taught the
old secrets. When he looked at the sky, he couldn't tell what the winter
was going to be like.

Nevertheless, to be on the safe side, he told his tribe that the winter
was indeed going to be cold and that the members of the village should
collect firewood to be prepared.

But being a practical leader, after several days he got an idea. He went
to the phone booth, called the national weather service and asked, "Is
the coming winter going to be cold?" "It looks like this winter is going
to be quite cold," the meteorologist at the weather service responded.

The chief again went back to his people and ordered them to collect
every scrap of firewood they could find. Two weeks later the chief
called the national weather service again. "Are you absolutely sure that
the winter is going to be very cold?" he asked. "Absolutely," the man
replied. "It's looking more and more like it is going to be one of the
coldest winters ever." .

"How can you be so sure?" the chief asked. The weatherman replied, "The
indians are collecting firewood like crazy."

According to that I'd say it's going to be a mild winter. My shed is not full or anything. And my brother said the same. He has beard, he should know.

i trust my ankle to warn me

.. I don't have any firewood in the shed

my shed is my firewood

mm ... mine isn't. bricks don't burn that well .. the woodwork does however

I have heated the house with a shed for couple months. Worked fine, though the nails were a nuisance.

i know what you mean. the nails of the woodw*rk in my shed usually end up in my

..

Mmmyeah, after the shed there were shoes...

shoes? ah, yes .. they burn.. not for long, and they smell

That was a very cold winter.

the natives collected shoes