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Jul. 25th, 2011 10:50 pmThe first thing on my to-do list in Poland was my brother wedding. It had to be postponed once already and it almost didn't happened at all again because problems with documents. So the weather was the least of the problems. However 12oC and constant rain was a bit much. It's summer after all. Of course it only lasted that weekened. Then it got warm and then cold again. It was sunny and it rained. I managed to forget how Polish weather constantly changes. The only thing one can say about it for sure is that it will change. I spent my last week in Poland on the conference I went there for. It was just a week but we got all the weather possibilities. It's like the advice I gave to one of the people who came from the US when they asked me how the summer in Poland looks like. You need to be prepared for anything. It doesn't matter weather you go for three days or three weeks you need to pack for all kind of weather.
So I huddled from cold and sweated in humidity. I was soaked by the rain and I swam in the lake. I got to use the sunscreen and the rain coat. I got to take the most beautiful photos of morning mists and dew drops on spider webs. I went biking and got to ride on a highway (They are really building highways everywhere I could see new roads at every turn. Too bad it means destroying the ones that already exist. The constant traffic of trucks full of sand and gravel is grinding them to dust)
I managed to avoid the worst storms. When the first one hit, tha one that created twisters in the southern part of Mazovia, I was in northern part of Poland when it just rained. And I managed to leave Warsaw before the second one managed to get the airport closed.
However it never got really hot. Not as hot as it was here when I came back. When I left the airport ACed rooms I walked into record breaking heat wave. And I couldn't even to change to shorts as my luggage didn't make it for the plane change in London. It was 38oC in the shade and the humidity made it feel like a sauna and the air almost felt like it burned. And the rain just makes humidity worse instead of signaling cooler air coming in. It's a little better now but it's a sad world when one considers 32oC an improvement. Since I came back I hardly left indoors. It feels so good to come back to cool AC one doesn't want to leave but I'm starting to feel imprisoned. It makes me miss Poland even more. Even cold and rain didn't stop me from going outside.
So I huddled from cold and sweated in humidity. I was soaked by the rain and I swam in the lake. I got to use the sunscreen and the rain coat. I got to take the most beautiful photos of morning mists and dew drops on spider webs. I went biking and got to ride on a highway (They are really building highways everywhere I could see new roads at every turn. Too bad it means destroying the ones that already exist. The constant traffic of trucks full of sand and gravel is grinding them to dust)
I managed to avoid the worst storms. When the first one hit, tha one that created twisters in the southern part of Mazovia, I was in northern part of Poland when it just rained. And I managed to leave Warsaw before the second one managed to get the airport closed.
However it never got really hot. Not as hot as it was here when I came back. When I left the airport ACed rooms I walked into record breaking heat wave. And I couldn't even to change to shorts as my luggage didn't make it for the plane change in London. It was 38oC in the shade and the humidity made it feel like a sauna and the air almost felt like it burned. And the rain just makes humidity worse instead of signaling cooler air coming in. It's a little better now but it's a sad world when one considers 32oC an improvement. Since I came back I hardly left indoors. It feels so good to come back to cool AC one doesn't want to leave but I'm starting to feel imprisoned. It makes me miss Poland even more. Even cold and rain didn't stop me from going outside.
