The Many Facets of Winter

.. or a few of them… and where are they. . .

Average Winter

Here in Great Western land in the northern hemisphere we have winter from December to March and during these time is is cold, dark and generally wet.

As a child I remember ‘Jack Frost‘ appearing overnight and painting wonderful ice pictures on the INSIDE of the bedroom window.

In the days of old when school kids actually walked to school, fluorescent arm bands were worn for protection from passing traffic, such as it was.

Whilst the dark mornings and evenings remain – lets face it we can’t do too much about that, the rest seem a distant memory.

Winter = Snow

In anyone’s psyche from Great Western land, winter definitely equals snow but now just any snow.

Not the snow you get on mainland Europe which is dry and powdery, no this is Great Western snow made from 3,000 miles of sea borne weather. It is heavy, it is wet and it is ideal form making snowballs and snowmen.

It is sadly though a thing of distant memory. Like all people with a long memory, it is easy to remember those halcyon days of youth where summer days were hot and sunny and winter days were cold, frosty and  snow covered.

As the climate continues to warm, there is debate as to whether the weather (!) will become warmer or colder here in Great Western land. Warmer air = melting ice caps = cold water in Atlantic = diverted gulf stream  = cold Great Western land – well as cold as Canadia land.

Winter = Ice

Ice is both great and really nasty. .

Good Ice = ice in your G&T, ice you can skate on

Bad Ice = ice on roads and paths that can cause your to slip/die

Back in the day, we got good ice. We could walk on frozen ponds and yet now we can only slide on footpaths and end up in hospital.

So there you have it some aspects of winter that are good and not so good.

Your author will never complain about the weather in Great Western land, it is winter here at the toime of writing, it is supposed to be cold and wet and dark. .  and it is!