Partial chaos in Germany the past days as well. However, in my home town Münster, with lots and lots of snow and ice during the past 2 weeks - it is amazing to see how many people still ride their bicycles in snow that by falling down or moving it around reaches heights of up to 20 cm! In other pictures from other German cities, bicycles are alomost erased from the public sight. Not so here.
I plan to buy myself a second bike next year before winter, a not so special one but with very wide spike-tyres. Currently, spike tyres are sold out everywhere. I had one belly-crash so far this winter, on bike.
However, the paradoxical effect of two white winters in a row now is only local weather, no global climate trend. Climatologists already rate 2010 as one of the globally warmest years of the past 100 years, it could even become the third-warmest once the analysis is finished.
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