In Southern California, June gloom is the familiar marine layer that rolls in with overcast skies. Jeremy from Long Beach wonders if other places have similarly named weather patterns. Indeed, Southern California also has May gray, no sky July, and...
If someone tells you it’s flisky or flobby outside, do you need to take an umbrella? A new book about England’s soggy climate includes 188 terms for rainy weather. Americans have their own joking names for local weather, from June Gloom in Southern...
Molly in San Diego grew up hearing her mother say someone daydreaming was in a brown study. The phrase goes back in English to the 1500s and means deep in thought, often with a gloomy or melancholy cast. Here brown reflects an older sense of dark or...
