Scientists Develop Official ‘Dreich Index’; Perth Scores 11 Out of 10
Index measures greyness, damp and how much you want to go back to bed.
A typically dreich day in Perth and Kinross. Score: 9.5. Photo: Michal Klajban, “View north from Ben Lawers, Scotland”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
PERTH — Scottish scientists have unveiled the first official Dreich Index, a scale measuring greyness, drizzle, damp and how strongly you want to get back into bed, and Perth has scored 11 out of 10.
“We had to extend the scale,” admitted a researcher. “Wednesday morning in Perth was off the charts. There was mizzle. There was haar. There was a man waiting for a bus with the face of someone who’d seen too much.”
The index ranges from 1 (“fresh”) to 10 (“Tuesday”). The team now plans a Smirr Rating and an official Baltic Scale, which will be used for the first time this weekend.
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