I don't care what they say: WINTER IS HERE
Winter is here. I don't care what any of these Euros say, it had arrived. And yes, I realise that according to our European counterparts, the seasons are governed by the solstice, but I am a proud Aussie, and I have proof that winter has arrived in Paris, because The Age (big newspaper in Oz) declared yesterday that summer has started in Australia. Hence, due to the whole northern/southern hemisphere thing, winter has started in Europe.
Being a researcher, I also have several lines of evidence indicating that winter has started.
1. Its bloody cold. And wet. You can see for yourself at my favourite weather site... it has images, graphs and cute little descriptions... I check it about a million times a day.
http://www.meteo-paris.com/ile-de-france/previsions.php
According to my man Guillaume (the guy posting the site), you can see that its going to rain nearly every day this week, last week we had temperatures at night around 1 degrees, and that last week, the average maximum was 11 degrees, and on Wednesday we only had a max. temperature of 7 degrees. And this is nothing new... all of November and half of October was like this too.
2. Its dark. The sun rose at 08h23 and is setting at 16h56 today. That is currently only 8.5 hours of daylight. That means that when I get up early to go swimming, its only after I have finished swimming for 45 minutes, got changed and walked to the metro that the sun is officially up. Pretty pathetic if its supposed to be only spring don't you think???
3. Solstice issues. Europeans say that their seasons depend on the solstice. Now I can agree with that - up to a point. But this means that winter officially starts on the 22nd December. The darkest, shortest day of the year. This is stupid. Totally illogical. Why would the height of darkness be the start of winter? Surely it makes more sense for it to be lodged somewhere in the middle of winter, where you can work your way up to it, knowing that, well its expected because its winter? And conversely, on the other side of the solstice, you are partly through winter and the whole getting lighter thing coincides with the move towards spring.
4. Leaves on trees. There are none. They are all gone. Everybody know that leaves fall off in autumn, say off in winter, and grow back in spring. Hang on - maybe someone should have a word with all the trees in Europe and tell them that they have to wait a few more weeks until all the leaves are dropped.
Nice try. I don't care what everyone says, I think the Aussies have got it right. Winter is here.
Winter is here. I don't care what any of these Euros say, it had arrived. And yes, I realise that according to our European counterparts, the seasons are governed by the solstice, but I am a proud Aussie, and I have proof that winter has arrived in Paris, because The Age (big newspaper in Oz) declared yesterday that summer has started in Australia. Hence, due to the whole northern/southern hemisphere thing, winter has started in Europe.
Being a researcher, I also have several lines of evidence indicating that winter has started.
1. Its bloody cold. And wet. You can see for yourself at my favourite weather site... it has images, graphs and cute little descriptions... I check it about a million times a day.
http://www.meteo-paris.com/ile-de-france/previsions.php
According to my man Guillaume (the guy posting the site), you can see that its going to rain nearly every day this week, last week we had temperatures at night around 1 degrees, and that last week, the average maximum was 11 degrees, and on Wednesday we only had a max. temperature of 7 degrees. And this is nothing new... all of November and half of October was like this too.
2. Its dark. The sun rose at 08h23 and is setting at 16h56 today. That is currently only 8.5 hours of daylight. That means that when I get up early to go swimming, its only after I have finished swimming for 45 minutes, got changed and walked to the metro that the sun is officially up. Pretty pathetic if its supposed to be only spring don't you think???
3. Solstice issues. Europeans say that their seasons depend on the solstice. Now I can agree with that - up to a point. But this means that winter officially starts on the 22nd December. The darkest, shortest day of the year. This is stupid. Totally illogical. Why would the height of darkness be the start of winter? Surely it makes more sense for it to be lodged somewhere in the middle of winter, where you can work your way up to it, knowing that, well its expected because its winter? And conversely, on the other side of the solstice, you are partly through winter and the whole getting lighter thing coincides with the move towards spring.
4. Leaves on trees. There are none. They are all gone. Everybody know that leaves fall off in autumn, say off in winter, and grow back in spring. Hang on - maybe someone should have a word with all the trees in Europe and tell them that they have to wait a few more weeks until all the leaves are dropped.
Nice try. I don't care what everyone says, I think the Aussies have got it right. Winter is here.
posted by Alli at 1:20 PM
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