Yesterday's forecast on my nifty AccuWeather toolbar in Firefox was for about 11 C. It seems the estimate was off - I paid attention to the temperatures all day long, and they were never higher than 8 C, which is usually the average minimum!
It seems that my reaction to jet lag is rather strange - my daily sleep requirement decreases to somewhere between 5 to 7 hours, which is a lot lower than my usual 10. I experienced this for the first few days when I was in India too, so I suppose it's just the way my body adjusts now. In any event, just like last night, I woke up at around 5 AM, completely refreshed, and imagine my surprise when I fired up Firefox and discovered that it was freezing outside.
I mean 'freezing' quite literally - the temperature is 0 C!
This is the coldest weather I've ever experienced, so it's tremendously exciting for me. Especially because I'm comfortably ensconsced indoors where it's all heated and warm.
A little googling showed me that this isn't unknown - the lowest recorded January temperature here is actually seven below zero, but that's pretty damn rare. It looks like I got lucky.
Anyway, since I'm up, I might as well do stuff. Hopefully it'll warm up later in the day.
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/*Looks like the weather gods are just begging me to blog by producing blog-worthy climate around Orlando*/
LoL!
-10C here, but it's quite fun because the snow is about 70cm thick :)
Ah, snow - that's something I have yet to encounter in the flesh. :P
But which place are you talking about - Romania or Ireland?
Romania, and it's significantly colder than usual for this period. There is hardly any snow in Ireland; no chance to ever see 70cm of snow there.
YOU NEVER EXPERIENCED SNOW??? You really must do it.
Well, presumably at some point I will experience it, but since I react terribly to cold, I'm in no hurry. :P
I have a friend in Bucharest who sent me a bunch of pictures of it - cars covered in snow and all that sort of thing, not to mention the sun rising in Zarnesti. It's pretty amazing, but sometimes I think it is easier for me to appreciate a picture than the real thing, because in the flesh I'd probably be shivering and sneezing unless I was dressed like an astronaut.
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