Tag Archives: winter

Wintertime In Pattaya

January 5, 2013 – 11:59 am

I’ve spent the best part of the 21st Century in Thailand, especially from 2000-2008. For the most part the weather was hot, hotter, or hot and rainy during the monsoon season. There was also a brief winter and in 2007 an intense high pressure system stalled over Thailand inflicting seasonally cooler weather on the entire […]

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Snow, Rain or Ice

December 29, 2012 – 8:02 pm

New York was spared a White Christmas for the holiday, but weathermen predicted a winter storm due for this weekend. I woke early in the Fort Greene Observatory. The skyline over the brownstones promised to back up their report. Within an hour snowflakes swirled in the air and I touched the window. It was cold […]

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– 8 Centrigrade in Luxembourg

February 1, 2012 – 5:57 am

Last evening Madame l’Ambassador drove from Oxford to Luxembourg in frigid temperature. The interior of the Porsche Boxster was well-heated and I dozed off several times in the passenger seat. Upon waking each time I asked, if she wanted me to drive. Thankfully Madame l’Ambassador refused every offer, as the Porsche ate the motorways of […]

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Colder Than A Witch’s Teat

February 4, 2011 – 9:01 am

Boston and New York survived the snowstorms of January. This month could be worse. Snow covers most of the USA. A frozen tundra, but humor still exists in the land of the ice and snow as exhibited in the weather chart emailed by my brother-in-law. In the end all we have is our humor. And […]

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Winter Ist Hier

January 29, 2010 – 9:13 pm

It’s cold outside my Brooklyn apartment and I’m debating whether to bolster my interior heat core with a bacon and eggs from the Academy. The temperature is 19F. Cold, but I’ve been colder. -40F atop Wildcat Mountain across from My. Washington. The year was 1971. The chairlift operator warned that that our run would be […]

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