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Especially during wintertime it's quite amazing how much the climate changes in the 50 km between my home region (the Bergisches Land, which you may or may not translate as "Mountainshire") and Cologne.
Having freed my car from snow this morning, I drove to dry, sunny, 10°C warm Cologne, where there was no sight of a snowflake.
In the afternoon, I left for my parents' in Remscheid. Soon, there were the first sad remains of recent snowfalls. A bit later, it was snowing heavily and everything around the highway was white.
This extreme change happened, as it usually does, somewhere around the Höllenbachtalbrücke (which I'll translate because it's such a ... nice name: Hell Creek Valley Bridge); driving over that bridge, you seem to cross some sort of climactic border. Amusingly enough, the south-western slope is covered with deciduous trees, while the north-eastern slope is covered in conifers, so it really looks like some sort of border. (There are deciduous trees later on on the north-eastern side of that valley, it's not THAT extreme; but it's still kind of scary.)
In Remscheid, it was 2°C cold. An 8° drop over 50 km. Impressive.
So yeah. Since yesterday afternoon, we have snow again. Envy at free will.
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( Klimazonen )
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Having freed my car from snow this morning, I drove to dry, sunny, 10°C warm Cologne, where there was no sight of a snowflake.
In the afternoon, I left for my parents' in Remscheid. Soon, there were the first sad remains of recent snowfalls. A bit later, it was snowing heavily and everything around the highway was white.
This extreme change happened, as it usually does, somewhere around the Höllenbachtalbrücke (which I'll translate because it's such a ... nice name: Hell Creek Valley Bridge); driving over that bridge, you seem to cross some sort of climactic border. Amusingly enough, the south-western slope is covered with deciduous trees, while the north-eastern slope is covered in conifers, so it really looks like some sort of border. (There are deciduous trees later on on the north-eastern side of that valley, it's not THAT extreme; but it's still kind of scary.)
In Remscheid, it was 2°C cold. An 8° drop over 50 km. Impressive.
So yeah. Since yesterday afternoon, we have snow again. Envy at free will.
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( Klimazonen )
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