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  1. Remember Saturday morning? Early June, bright blue skies over the Moscow River — even sunshine if, like this runner, you woke up early enough.
  3. Clearly, such summer idyll was too good to last.
  5. "Who ordered this rain? Make it go away right now," one man tweeted from his car.
  7. Another posted this short video, titled "Sound of the Day." While hail falls from the sky and bounces on the pavement, listen closely as people in the background say: "This is a nightmare."
  9. As this soggy excuse for a summer made no indication of moving on, the tone shifted from descriptive and annoyed to resigned and pragmatic.
  10. Some Muscovites found comfort in staying inside and enjoying the beauty found within their own homes.
  12. Others speculated about the motivation behind all this wind and water: "The weather decided to join forces with the builders and workers around Tverskaya Ulitsa to steal our summer."
  14. But sometimes, one picture really does say it all. This one, simply captioned "summer," conveys a wealth of weltschmerz.
  16. With Moscow now on its fourth day of the season formerly known as summer, it is hard not to wonder whether signs like this one are designed simply to mock us.
  18. Especially if you have to suffer through cold showers both outdoors and in.
  20. Also, by now you have probably shared as many umbrella pics as your Instagram followers can bear.
  21. #Summer in #Moscow is not as expected. #rain #cold #umbrella #brrrr
    #Summer in #Moscow is not as expected. #rain #cold #umbrella #brrrr
    Yeah Nova
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    Tue, Jun 07 2016 06:37:50
  22. Which means that you are left with three options for dealing with this pseudo-summer.
  23. Option one: To follow the example set by many a literary heroine and wallow. "This is a great weather in which to be sad" — that's the spirit!
  25. Option two: Leave if you possibly can — by plane, car, ship, train or foot. Run, don't walk.
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