Thursday, 19 November 2009

Cold wind from the north!

The temperature has dropped more than 10 degrees in less than a week! Thursday last week it was still like 25 to 27 degrees, at the week end just 20 or below and the last 3 days 13 to 15 at the most.
It is a cold and dry monsoon from the north east which has been inflecting the weather here at the south china sea. I know it sound like a bad joke to people from northern Europe, when I say that we've been freezing, as what is 13 degrees in the middle of November. And it can be true that it sounds like nothing and we should be happy t hat it is not 0 to 5 degrees. Well, that is certainly true, but; here it just happens in a vcouple of days that the temperature drops like that, and from running around in flip flops and a t-shirt, you suddenly have to dig out the warm winter clothes, you last saw when coming back from Europa last year just after Christmas.
Another thing about the 13 degrees here, is that it feels like -3 as it is still humid and moist, and that wet cold just goes through skin and bones. The 3rd thing is the houses; they are not at all built to keep anything in or out and the cold wind just rushes through the ventilation fans and where else it can. And if yoiu turn on a heater, the heat goes the same way just out, so if you don't cover your self in blankets and kind of building a tent around you and the heater, you can just forget about trying to get warm.
The good thing is; the temperature will go up again as quick as it went down, so next week tuesday, we might again enjoy 23 to 25 degrees, and again put the warn coats in the bag and hide it under the bed untill next time.

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