Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Schizophrenic Weather

I am not really sure how to answer the question of, "what's the weather like in Germany?" as it is always different. Not just in terms of seasons or days, but it can change several times a day. Lets start with seasons. I was here in August house hunting for a week and it was warm, but not hot, and one of the nights we went to a festival and it was cold and raining...I think in most places in the northern hemisphere it is supposed to be summer that time of the year. Fall, again was unpredictable. September was cold, October was really nice, and November varied from day to day. Now we are in Winter...I think, which generally means gloomy and overcast. December was cold (but not near freezing) and dry with some very unseasonably warm days. January was super cold and we had snow on the ground for two weeks which is very rare for the area. And now February is okay as it has been around 40 degrees. But then we had yesterday...it was crazy. It poured rain all day, and then the wind was ridiculous (which is also strange for this area as they consider a breeze windy). It was borderline scary wind too. Now today started out calm and sunny with complete blue skies, then overcast around noon with sprinkles, and now is partly cloudy with light wind. I don't get it. This region must be strange like that as people claim the weather is different every year. Apparently we live in the most temperate area- I don't even want to know what it is like in Berlin or Hamburg if I live in a temperate area!
It would be nice if the weather would just make up its mind. That is what I loved about living in Arizona, you always had a pretty good idea of what the weather was going to be like! It was easy living there when people would ask what the weather was like, there was always an easy answer. Clearly that is not the case here. It would be great if you all could cross your fingers that we have unseasonably warm and consistent weather very soon...maybe that will work!
Auf Wiedersehen!

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