I've been talking about how warm it's been and how crazy the spring blooming is and it's time for some evidence. I finally took the photos out of the camera. This weekend was a good day because it's been raining during the night lately and my symptoms abated a little. The clouds today also meant it was only 25 and not over 30 (in the sun) as it's ( Read more... )

There is a new batch of trees flowering outside and the weather is nice. This incredibly beautiful spring means one thing. I can't breathe. There are pink and white trees all over the place and their smell is suffocating. My muscles are sore as if I spent hours exercising not just been walking around. I wake up short of breath and tired. And ( Read more... )

Saturday was sunny and warm. Actually for this time of year it was hot - over 20oC in the sun with just slight cold wind - no more than short sleeve required. It was hard not to enjoy this and all the bikers, joggers and dog walkers certainly did. Signs of spring were everywhere and it was hard to believe in the forecast. And the forecast said that ( Read more... )

I told you how warm winter has been here. Now I'm going to show you the effects.

Magnolias has been blooming for a month now and they don't look like they are going to stop anytime soon. Some kind of early blooming fruit trees - that bloomed at least a month later last year. Forsythias and daffodils. All the early spring flowers. Already here.

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Today January ends and I can't stop feeling surprised it haven't ended long time ago. We've been talking with my friends here for weeks about how hard it is to remember it's still January when it's sunny and +20 outside. I keep thinking it must be March already. Temperatures drop below zero only on some nights. We didn't have a really cold day ( Read more... )

Just a week ago the weather was summer like. Sunny and very warm. There were people sunbathing in swimming suits around the pool. Then the temperature started to drop and it got cold. Really cold. The skies have been clouded for three days - the longest I've seen here I think. It was barely over 10C on Saturday but it got even colder on Sunday as ( Read more... )

My parents are complaining about the weather in Poland. This was a very harsh and long winter and it's still not quite over yet. There was just a light snow and minus temperatures at morning. This time of year and late autumn (especially November) are the moments when I really enjoy the fact I moved south. It was almost like summer in the past ( Read more... )

It was 22 oC and mostly sunny today and the spring here becomes more and more visible. It was much colder for the most of the week and it rained yesterday but the weather is nice again. The first trees are abloom, the first flowers are out and the birds are mating like crazy. It feel so strange when I Skype home and my parents show me snow and ( Read more... )

The spring is here. Or more precisely that time before spring that's no longer winter but not a full blown spring either. We have a name for it in Polish - przedwiośnie. The weather randomly changes from cold to warm to cold again and from rain to sunny to snow. The trees are still bare but at every turn one can spot this:
Quince

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It suddenly got warm. After 2 months of often bitter cold and sometimes snow summer struck. Just last Wednesday it was barley above 0 and drizzle was coming from the sky the whole day. We were celebrating my friends birthday and the four of us Polish girls agreed this was exactly  like the worst November weather back home. Then it started to get ( Read more... )