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Archives for March 4th, 2005
It’s just too cold — too cold — for me.
March 1st was the first day of meteorological spring, but Europe didn’t notice; the whole continent is frozen solid like Jack Nicholson at the end of The Shining. In Slovenia, in the town of RateÄ?e, all previous records on the books were broken by a teeth-chattering -24.3 degrees Celsius. Nova Gorica endured its coldest first of March since 1987. Other towns also plunged to the bottom of the thermostat. It was -14 in Ljubljana, -16 in Novo Mesto, -19.5 in Murska Sobota, -20 in Maribor and Celje, -21.6 in KoÄ?evje, and -10 in Koper. First prize went to Babno Polje, however, with -29 degrees Celsius.
Note to self: This summer I’m going to come back to this post, read those numbers, smile, and take another sip of my f$#&+% ice tea.
Reuters wrote a story about Europe’s "big chill," which you can read here. As usual, they use "Europe" as a synonym for "western Europe" and disregard Easterlings entirely. Nevermind that the cold is affecting the whole continent. Nevermind that people in Romania (including a one-month old baby) actually died from the cold: Reuters kicks off its article with the fact that there were delays at the airports in Amsterdam and Paris. Phénomne inimaginable!
Luckily for me, China’s People Daily Online was all over the story. Their short write-up even mentions that the canal linking Berlin and the Polish port of Szczecin is blocked due to 14-centimeter-thick ice. I had no idea. The Reuters story certainly doesn’t mention it, although they do point out that Milan got "a rare covering" of snow this morning. Fantastico!)
From blogs I learned that Split, Croatia had one of its coldest March days in the twentieth century, and that Bucharest dipped to -20 degrees Celsius, also a historic low. I even learned that sometimes snow isn’t your worst enemy, even if it sometimes feels like it — especially now when it’s so bitterly and unnaturally cold that you can’t wait for it all to melt away and for nice Slovenian summers to come thaw you out completely.
