Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Be Prepared

Know Your Amsterdam Weather

Having now experienced Amsterdam in all four seasons I thought I would catalog some of the weather types that a visitor to this city might expect to encounter:

  • Rainy
  • Damp
  • Wettish
  • Soggy
  • Thinking about raining
  • Will probably rain later
  • Looks nasty enough to rain, but no actual precipitation
  • Cold
  • Cold and windy
  • Colder than it should be, it's May dammit!
  • Snow falling but not sticking to the ground
  • Hailing
  • Snowing/Hailing
  • Hailing/Raining
  • Snowing/Raining
  • Snowing/Hailing/Raining
  • I'm just going to stay inside and open a bottle of wine
  • Cloudy...ish
  • Sunny, sort of
  • Not sure
  • Ambiguous
  • TBD
  • Decent biking weather
  • A bit chilly/damp, but still bikeable
  • Misery on wheels
  • I'll take the tram today
  • Raining tourists

Ah hah! I kid Amsterdam. We've actually had a few strings of quite nice days recently. But the weather around here? She is fickle!