Freezing
"It's cold huh", my colleagues chuckled when I appeared in the office
"Not like this", I grinned gesturing to my outfit
I must admit, that grin was hidden between my double scarf and my deeply pulled hat. And I'm sure it was funny when I started to peel of my multiple layers of clothes. After all it was cold outside....up to -10C (for you Canadians: it's humid too so picture -10 in Vancouver, not inland). A few inches of snow and very low temperatures are enough to cause huge traffic jams and public transport outages all over!
We're in an official cold-wave since Thursday as apparently you only need 5 nights of freezing temps and 3 days that remain below zero. Hmm in my ideal world a "normal" winter should then be filled with plenty of cold-waves At least I'm consistent, I also want lots of heatwaves in the summer :p. Let the seasons be true seasons, this is much nicer than the 4 weeks of soft grey drizzle we've had before.
The predictions are that it will remain freezing for another week for sure...generating immediately skating fever in the Netherlands :D. Yep, potentially we get this again by mid next week! Now I also understand why none of the Amsterdammers takes the effort or has the courtesy to clear up the snow in front of their door: they rather let the few inches we got on Tuesday get trampled by the pedestrians and then frozen to a dangerous ice rink : it must be part of their skating madness.
"Not like this", I grinned gesturing to my outfit
I must admit, that grin was hidden between my double scarf and my deeply pulled hat. And I'm sure it was funny when I started to peel of my multiple layers of clothes. After all it was cold outside....up to -10C (for you Canadians: it's humid too so picture -10 in Vancouver, not inland). A few inches of snow and very low temperatures are enough to cause huge traffic jams and public transport outages all over!
We're in an official cold-wave since Thursday as apparently you only need 5 nights of freezing temps and 3 days that remain below zero. Hmm in my ideal world a "normal" winter should then be filled with plenty of cold-waves At least I'm consistent, I also want lots of heatwaves in the summer :p. Let the seasons be true seasons, this is much nicer than the 4 weeks of soft grey drizzle we've had before.
The predictions are that it will remain freezing for another week for sure...generating immediately skating fever in the Netherlands :D. Yep, potentially we get this again by mid next week! Now I also understand why none of the Amsterdammers takes the effort or has the courtesy to clear up the snow in front of their door: they rather let the few inches we got on Tuesday get trampled by the pedestrians and then frozen to a dangerous ice rink : it must be part of their skating madness.
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