Thursday, April 14, 2005

What's the Season?

People are still debating whether spring arrived yet, or not. I don't take part in these discussions anymore. Or, maybe spring really is making its way, but then, it's gonna be a cold spring anyway. I don't remember the weather behaving in such a schizophrenic manner around this time; I mean, spring was declared by some more than a month ago, when temperatures went sky-high. But a lot has gone on since then. All sorts of weather disasters, rain storms, heavy snow, freezing temperatures, hail storms, with appropriate traffic incidents. For the last few days the pattern has been this: it's winter in the morning, it's summer in the afternoon. So, I keep warm gloves in the car for sweeping the snow and scraping the ice off my windshields in the morning, but leave my warm coat at home and make sure to wear something light to work.

I'm heading out of town for the weekend actually, and have no idea what to expect there. Although the summerhouse is partially sheltered in the woods, the winds from the close-by glacier are icy cold. Will there be snow all over? Will it be freezing? That's for us to find out ...

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