I haven’t written about the all-important weather in a while. It’s pretty hot, about 32 C in here, with very high humidity. The New Haven Register even has a story about it: State swelters in tropical heat.
Snowflakes are not exotic for people who live in cold countries, but for those of us who come from the tropics, pretty, hexagonal snowflakes only exist in textbooks and on TV. Even here in New Haven, they are fairly uncommon, because you need special conditions (particular ranges of humidity and temperature) for them to form; maybe we see them once a year. Today was one of those days, so we took some pictures for those of you who live in warm places and never see this phenomenon.
Note: a penny is 19.05 mm wide, so the snowflake in the picture is roughly 5 mm wide.
Today it feels like Spring: now we are at 15 °C. Welcome to New England! As they say, “if you don’t like the weather, just wait five minutes and it will change".
…well, it hasn’t started officially yet, but I hereby declare that, for practical purposes, Winter has come to New Haven. Today we got a mix of rain and snow which froze on contact with the roads and cars (the temperature was -2 ºC); we had the amusing experience of slipping on the ice and having to use the ice scraper on all the windows of our car to be able to use it.
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