Silent_Water
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I still do not feel so old as I am (57) but the weather in Germany really became strange during my life time. In my youth, there were really seasons of each 3 months of winter, spring, summer and autumn/ fall. The people were wearing clothes suitable for these seasons for about three months.
In these times, I am looking around in my German city and you can really see that the people are never sure what to wear because of fast changing temperatures.
In this article, the German weekly "Der Spiegel" reports that for the first time in more than 100 years, the rather cold winter temperatures jumped in the city of Göttingen within one week from minus 23,8 degrees Celsius up to plus 18,1 degrees Celsius, which means a plus of 41,9 degrees Celsius (= about 105 degrees Fahrenheit !) within one week.
For me at my age, these are now temperature changings like on another planet and you can really remark it in the behaviour of the guests in "my" hotel. When the temperatures are jumping up so much during one or two days, in the evenings, the guests fall asleep almost like the sleeping Beauty in the German fairy-tale "Dornröschen", who is sleeping 100 years. No one around this hotel still seems to be awake in such nights except me - there is even almost no more traffic on the streets except the delivery trucks for ALDI, Lidl or the cars of the police and the ambulances. These are really strange times for Germany:
www.spiegel.de
And the scientists in Germany are even saying, everything about our temperatures could become even much worse in coming decades because Europe benefits and is favored very much by the North Atlantic "Golfstrom" ("gulf stream" ?), which sends warm water across the Atlantic from the Gulf of Mexico up to Iceland and Norway. This "Golfstrom" is remarkably becoming weaker during the last years. And now imagine that New York in the USA is almost on the same degree of latitude as Naples in Italy. Winter temperatures like - 20 or minus 40 degrees Celsius in New York are possible - in Naples such temperatures are unimaginable ... up to now ... , because the breakdown of the "Golfstrom" could in some predictions make the temperatures much lower in Europe, whereas everywhere else in the world, the temperatures would be rising very much.
This winter, we had about one week of a kind of a really cold winter for Germany but only one week later, we had already springtime tempartures. Two weeks ago, I saw everyone wearing anoraks and now especially the young people are already partly wearing short trousers and T-shirts in the warmest German cities. It is like making a voyage from Norway to Italy within one week without leaving your home city and this is no more normal for us Germans.
In these times, I am looking around in my German city and you can really see that the people are never sure what to wear because of fast changing temperatures.
In this article, the German weekly "Der Spiegel" reports that for the first time in more than 100 years, the rather cold winter temperatures jumped in the city of Göttingen within one week from minus 23,8 degrees Celsius up to plus 18,1 degrees Celsius, which means a plus of 41,9 degrees Celsius (= about 105 degrees Fahrenheit !) within one week.
For me at my age, these are now temperature changings like on another planet and you can really remark it in the behaviour of the guests in "my" hotel. When the temperatures are jumping up so much during one or two days, in the evenings, the guests fall asleep almost like the sleeping Beauty in the German fairy-tale "Dornröschen", who is sleeping 100 years. No one around this hotel still seems to be awake in such nights except me - there is even almost no more traffic on the streets except the delivery trucks for ALDI, Lidl or the cars of the police and the ambulances. These are really strange times for Germany:
Wetter in Deutschland: Meteorologen verzeichnen historischen Temperatursprung
Um mehr als 40 Grad sind die Temperaturen innerhalb einer Woche gestiegen. Seitdem die Wetterdaten aufgezeichnet werden, gab es das noch nie, sagen Meteorologen.
www.spiegel.de
And the scientists in Germany are even saying, everything about our temperatures could become even much worse in coming decades because Europe benefits and is favored very much by the North Atlantic "Golfstrom" ("gulf stream" ?), which sends warm water across the Atlantic from the Gulf of Mexico up to Iceland and Norway. This "Golfstrom" is remarkably becoming weaker during the last years. And now imagine that New York in the USA is almost on the same degree of latitude as Naples in Italy. Winter temperatures like - 20 or minus 40 degrees Celsius in New York are possible - in Naples such temperatures are unimaginable ... up to now ... , because the breakdown of the "Golfstrom" could in some predictions make the temperatures much lower in Europe, whereas everywhere else in the world, the temperatures would be rising very much.
This winter, we had about one week of a kind of a really cold winter for Germany but only one week later, we had already springtime tempartures. Two weeks ago, I saw everyone wearing anoraks and now especially the young people are already partly wearing short trousers and T-shirts in the warmest German cities. It is like making a voyage from Norway to Italy within one week without leaving your home city and this is no more normal for us Germans.
