09 Januar 2007

Biological clock confusion

To make up for the lack of warm water, we do have warm weather. Apart from the birds that I have seen flying in the wrong direction, and the flowers that are still, or already, blossoming, it also confuses me sometimes.
I seriously had the idea that it was March when cycling home today. The municipality workers were busy removing the dead wood from the Neckar shore, just like they always clear the ditches in Groenekan. In March. It's cloudy, windy and slightly rainy weather, some ten degrees centigrade. I notice a tacit assumption with myself that in a month or so, we're going to have warm days again. If it weren't for the calendar, I'd believe I had been hibernating for three months.
But although skipping a winter would be very interesting from a climatological point of view, I'd personally rather have a bit of cold from time to time, if it helps keeping Holland dry. Maybe we'll have something like last year, with deep frost in late March, and sunny summer two weeks later.

In conclusion: 'global warming is making climatology just a little more interesting than I like.'