Unpredictable Weather

Heading towards April end and we had snow showers in the morning. All welcome rituals of spring have been recently concluded like several carnivals and annual duck race. The trees are reviving their lost beauty with   arrival of fresh green leaves. Swaying daffodils, colorful   tulips and cherry blossom bunches seem to say hello spring but cold is yet to say goodbye. It always snows when temperatures hover around zero degree.

Summers in India have arrived with soaring temperatures. It is only April and most part of India is sizzling above forty degrees Celsius. Temperature as high as forty eight degree centigrade has also been recorded, breaking past records. Someone said, God has been so partial to India, reeling under severe heat. But we all forget, in Europe winters are   equally harsh. The Europeans have overcome cold conditions by designing temperature controlled houses, offices, buses and trains. Running hot water is available 24*7. So we do not feel the wrath of cold here even at sub-zero temperatures (sometimes as low as minus fifteen degrees).

 I always remember a song from my childhood taught in school. The lyrics are

“Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam,
Where the deer and the antelope play,
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,
and the skies are not cloudy all day. “

Back then it did not make much sense to me, as I lived in bright and sunny Allahabad. The music teacher was a German nun, Sr. Elizabeth, who use to play piano and we use to sing, it was like any other song which she taught us. But having lived in Luxembourg for over two years now, I very well connect with the song as here “skies are cloudy” so often.

In Luxembourg it rains almost three sixty five days. Though showers are light unlike Indian monsoons where it pours like cats and dogs. An acquaintance has rightly said, “One cannot trust Luxembourg lass and weather”.(loosely translated from Hindi ). Here rain is very unpredictable  ,one moment the sun shines brightly and the very next moment  it  becomes cloudy if not rainy. Luxembourg has only four seasons, spring, summer, autumn and winter accompanied with rain throughout.

PS: Notice the clouds in pics.All pics clicked  by me  on different days and I mostly venture out on sunny days:)