Luci: Hello my dear cat Noas, what is the weather like there?
Noas: Ohhh Luci, here in Kuala Lumpur was today in the morning partly cloudy but now in the afternoon it is cloudy with heavy showers. When I checked temperature one hour ago it was 31 degrees. How about there?
Luci: NOOOO !!!! I envy you such hot weather! You know, January is in the Czech republic the coldest month of the year, so you can imagine it. Oh sorry, you can't :-D Anyway, we are lucky to have a lot of snow this winter and at nights it usually drops below freezing.
Noas: Wooow, I wouldn't survive there. Well, don't worry, you don't need to be jealous because according to the local forecast tomorrow is probably going to occur thunderstorm. Luckily it is going to clear up on Sunday. By the way what is the forecast like for tomorrow?
Luci: Here in Ostrava snow is slowly melting but it is little bit dangerous because when it starts freezing at nights, it might be very slippery and roads might be icy. After such night in the morning our car will be definately iced up. Everybody hates it! As for the forecast, tomorrow we expect 1 degree and the sky is going to be overcast. Is it windy there?
Noas: No, it isn't windy at all, just some light breeze time to time. By the way I find such weather you have described depressive! I need sun to walk outside and enjoy everything around. Besides, I am happy that here sunset is now at 7:30pm. Is it the same there?
Luci: If only!!! In winter it is getting dark at 4pm, fortunately lately it is getting little bit better, which means we are blessed with light until 5:00pm. I was counting it and believe it or not in winter time out of 24 hours remain only 9 hours during these we can enjoy daylight fully. Maybe we will become soon vampires!
Noas: Haha! Oh my goooshh, I didn't know that you lack daylight there and that especially in winter it is such a drastic change! Anyway, every place has its negatives. Honestly I am used to for living here, no matter what we have to face. For example sometimes floods, humidity is so high but it is something we take as part of our daily life.
Luci: I do agree and I am happy for all seasons we have here. In winter we can experience -15 and in summer here is +30. Thanks for this short weather chat and I hope the storm won't be anything terrible there.
Noas: Thank you Luci and watch out. As you have mentioned there might be slippery tomorrow and I can't imagine worse tragedy than you with broken leg 24/7 online on EC. Do believe me that people wouldn't survive it! :D
Comments
Expector and Tara,
thank you so much, now I got it. Since we are not sure about the weather.... we should use expressions like you have mentioned.
By the way.. can we also say THEY PROMISE it is going to be sunny...
Good job, Expector.
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because according to the local weather forecast, there is probably going to be a thunderstorm tomorrow
They're calling for thunderstorms tomorrow. (This is how we would probably say it. "They" is the weather forecasters.)
My two cents:
"because according to the local forecast there might be a thunderstorm tomorrow"
It's a tricky sentence, isn't it? When we talk about weather, we usually use such words as "there is/are", "get", "have", or "receive" to connect a noun such as "thunderstorm" - in this case, you don't use such verbs as "occur", "take place" or "happen" etc.
So, it's not always so easy to correctly express the weather - it can be so challenging. That's why we need to join in the writing challenge.
PS Why not ask Tara to help reword the sentence for us?
Expector,
I need all four season, even though lately it is like spring is very very short in comparison to the past. It is like here we have winter till April then there are two weeks of spring and ... summer is here. Weird because when I was a little girl it wasn't like this.
Tara,
thanx for nice comment and for your corrections. I think the sentence should be like this:
because according to the local forecast tomorrow will probably occur thunderstorm...
P.S. Thanx for info about challenges :-)
PSS. It is awesome that you have finally snow there. One friend of mine from Czech republic, who moved to Canada long time ago told me that it is her first winter there without snow after more than 20 years.. I hope your kids will enjoy winter and will have lots of fun! Winter without snow is NO WINTER :-)
Excellent weather chat! You've covered so much weather with this comparison. Great work!
Re corrections: Can you improve the wording here?
"because according to the local forecast tomorrow is probably going to occur thunderstorm"
Also, note that we would say the weather is depressing (not depressive).
PS. There can never be too many challenges! Keep them coming!
PSS. It's our first snow day of the year here. That means the kids don't have to go to school.
Good work!
People living near the equator may not be so familiar with the four seasons - spring, summer, autumn/fall, winter. I'm not sure if we really need all the four seasons:))
Annee,
this Challenge is by Tara omggg :D I decided to quit own challenges after reading a post by Expector that we have here enough of them. Don't wanna cause the problems with my hyperactivity :-D
I wish you would post another challenge. I saw your previous challenge and pretty tempted to join but it was all in the past.
You are really good at mobilizing even the laziest member of EC. This writing challenge can really be helpful for us.
Oppsss....don't suggest that I would post one for I have a different challenge to give, hehehe!
Anne, omg m not here 24/7 it would kill me :-D Survival of the Fittest made me laugh, dear :-D If I started again that one contest, believe me that I wouldn't survive :-D
Your place reminded me of the movie "30 Days Night". By the way, with or without fractures, Luci will always survive 24/7 in EC. Nothing can hinder her from going to EC. Else, the world will turn upside down especially in Kuala Lumpur. :)
She is the living reminder of the most active EC member's theme "Survival of the Fittest".
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