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!
5 comments:
You are just used to sun 300+ days a year, Florida Boy!
Yeah, Bojojoti's got that right.
That sounds like parts of the northwest! :-) (Not the parts I live in mind you, but parts of it none the less!)
Pat
Ironically, Jacksonville gets significantly more rainfall in inches than Amsterdam (50 inches compared to only 30 inches in Amsterdam). It sounds like Amsterdam has that same sort of weather Seattle gets.
Pat
Pat -
1. I prefer Amsterdam weather to Seattle. Amsterdam weather is random enough that you still have a chance of sunshine on the coldest, dreariest winter day. Seattle is a bit too consistent with its solid, unending weeks of cold and gray.
2. Jacksonville does get a lot of rain, but you have to think of it in terms of tropical weather. On any given summer afternoon, the sky may open up and it may pound us with rain for an hour - and then it will be clear again, and there will be a refreshing breeze to boot (cannot overemphasize the importance of this!). We generally don't have days or weeks of uninterrupted gray drizzle. When it rains, it RAINS, and then it's done.
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