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Sudden winter strikes
Dec. 8th, 2013 10:51 pmIt was over 25 oC on Friday. People went back to wearing shorts and flip-flops and we were all overheating. It was still humid and hot during the night and I couldn't cool down my apartment even with the balcony door open wide. It was too hot to sleep and finally after 1 am I gave up and switched AC on too cool the place down. When I woke up on Saturday it was colder and I had to turn the the heating back on and go back to wearing warm jacket. Today it was barely 3 oC the whole day and it drizzled non-stop. Tomorrow - it goes back to 15 oC.
It's not that I mind the weather. Although cold, drizzling rain and clouds all day and mud everywhere is that exact type weather that makes Poland in November so depressing. There is no light, no warmth and there is even no snow. I know that this is usually a cause for panic around here but I would rather have snow. If it was snowing I'd be spending today outside running around and taking photos. With all the Christmas lights already on it'd be so nice. Instead it's just ugly.
I know that this complains seem trivial compared to the devastation that the orcan Xaver did to Northern Europe. My uncle send me picture of repairs they had to do when a tree fell and destroyed the roof. The winds in some parts of Europe reached over 220 km/h and toppled trees and overturned cars and the combined with ocean surge caused floodings and even pushed several homes off the cliff. People hundred of thousands of people lost power in Poland and with it many lost heating - including my parents. But they were lucky as they got it back the same day. Those who didn't had to face snowstorms that came after in cold and darkness. But most complains I hear is about all those people who still didn't change tire for winter ones in their cars because it's been warm so far.
It's only slightly better in the most of the US. For some reason south east was the only part not covered by the big chill. Temperatures are dropping below freezing in California with Californians are experiencing ice and frost in the mornings sometimes for the first time. It snowed on the west side of the country all the way down to Texas on Thursday and Friday and been moving east and today the snowstorms hit the East Coast.
However, the sudden and large changes in temperatures - we went from basically summer weather to almost winter in two days and it's to get warm again and then cold again next week - are already causing people all around me to fall sick. And winter is only starting.
It's not that I mind the weather. Although cold, drizzling rain and clouds all day and mud everywhere is that exact type weather that makes Poland in November so depressing. There is no light, no warmth and there is even no snow. I know that this is usually a cause for panic around here but I would rather have snow. If it was snowing I'd be spending today outside running around and taking photos. With all the Christmas lights already on it'd be so nice. Instead it's just ugly.
I know that this complains seem trivial compared to the devastation that the orcan Xaver did to Northern Europe. My uncle send me picture of repairs they had to do when a tree fell and destroyed the roof. The winds in some parts of Europe reached over 220 km/h and toppled trees and overturned cars and the combined with ocean surge caused floodings and even pushed several homes off the cliff. People hundred of thousands of people lost power in Poland and with it many lost heating - including my parents. But they were lucky as they got it back the same day. Those who didn't had to face snowstorms that came after in cold and darkness. But most complains I hear is about all those people who still didn't change tire for winter ones in their cars because it's been warm so far.
It's only slightly better in the most of the US. For some reason south east was the only part not covered by the big chill. Temperatures are dropping below freezing in California with Californians are experiencing ice and frost in the mornings sometimes for the first time. It snowed on the west side of the country all the way down to Texas on Thursday and Friday and been moving east and today the snowstorms hit the East Coast.
However, the sudden and large changes in temperatures - we went from basically summer weather to almost winter in two days and it's to get warm again and then cold again next week - are already causing people all around me to fall sick. And winter is only starting.
