Germany Facing a Blizzard
It is Friday evening, the roads around here are deserted and there are no pedestrians in sight. I ventured out to get some groceries on foot from the Asian market around the corner and even though the temperature reads -10°C, it felt more like -15°C, including the wind chill factor. Interestingly enough, the German language has no proper translation for wind chill factor (I have checked with leo dictionary) as a freezing wind is not the usual winter companion around here.
Our daughter has gone out for her usual Friday evening horseback riding lesson from 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. For the most part of these three hours, they will be outdoors on open fields between Steinbach and Frankfurt. You could not even tempt me with a bonfire and mulled wine, well, at least not for three hours. She is scheduled to ride again tomorrow afternoon, we shall see.
The supermarket in our neighborhood was strangely quiet on this Friday evening when there are usually long lines of customers. I guess this weekend we all will be eating leftovers. Additionally, cupboards in affluent Germany are generally full anyway.
Oberursel, with view onto St. Ursula Church, taken 7 Jan 2010.
For more information about this blizzard forecast, visit BBC News.
Tags: blizzard, Germany, Oberursel, wind chill factor
January 9th, 2010 at 10:34 am
Wikipedia schlägt “Windchill-Effekt” vor!
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windchill
January 10th, 2010 at 12:24 am
It is of course cold in London. But I am maybe lucky this time. Until now, the cold record is -3°C here. I do normally not use any heating in my room in Bonn, when it is about zero or slight minus. Therefore, the weather in London suits me a bit? If all buses to the direction of my school in London (Hampstead) do not run, my school will be closed. I have not got the present from the sky. I am supporsed to be in the Centre of Buddhism in London (Kings Cross) tomorrow. It is the CLEANING!