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A picture taken in Rogla, Slovenia, yesterday.
We had a very mild winter last year. It “feels like winter passed us by this year,” one bodacious blogger wrote back in March. They even had to cancel the famous Golden Fox slalom in Maribor (in January) because there just wasn’t any snow. If I recall correctly, it didn’t even seriously snow until sometime in March.
I also distinctly remember everyone joking around this time about how wonderful global warming is. “This is the best!” we said as we strolled around outside in the hot sun. Then we all laughed heartily, like this.
But the party seems to have come to an abrupt end this week. Places like Rogla are now entirely underwater (if you count snow as frozen water) and Maribor also got some flurries and snow on Pohorje… And we’re still in October. October! Even the trustworthy professionals behind Casino Is Slovenia, know that:
The winter season in Slovenia begins in December in the period before the Christmas and New Year’s fairs and holidays and lasts until the end of March. — Casino Is Slovenia
They also know that:
Gambling is second nature to Slovenia. — Casino is Slovenia
Unless they’re mistaken, which they’re not, something is wrong. And that means that this winter is going to be hammertime.
More pictures of Rogla yesterday: (who took them?)
(Thanks Miran!)
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The snow is beautiful. I hope this year the Zlata Lisica will not be cancelled.
Hammertime. Such appropriate wording!
I am going to California for Christmas and I wanna let Slovenia know that with this vreme, the push factors are vastly outweighing those pulling me back…and so I might just have to hide on a cruise ship in Mexico until April
Global warming = global weather surprises. I love snow but camilles plan sounds like a really good one
There also the underappreciated art of hibernating..
awesome!
Snowball fights!
Hm… weather… Actually, this reminds me of the Indian Wather Prediction Joke.
The fact that Rogla is under 20 cm of snow in mid-October don’t count a pair of fetid dingo’s kindeys, because it won’t last past early November, when (I’m sure) the weather will get unseasonably hot and everyone will start looking into the sky… Or checking out what the Indians are doing
When I heard on the radio this morning (RSI, BTW) that it would be “warmer” today with temps from 8°C up, I finally gave up my hopes of having a globally warm winter. Seems I’ll have to drag my winter clothes out of the closets after all…
@dr. fil: So this is what “coming out of the closet” looks like during winter?
@P: Right. I have been avoiding having to force my winter clothes to ‘come out’. Jeez, political correctness has made me sick! And not for the first time, either
Apparently the snow plows were ready. That’s a good sign of preparedness, no?
Does this mean that I can start wearing my enormous parachute pants again?
@Wolf: “The snow is beautiful. …”
I like the sonw only from this point of view:
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