Weather…

New England is infamous of it’s terrible weather. In a single day it is conceivable that when you wake up it’ll be about 20 degrees, snowing and windy as hell. By noon the sky will have cleared up and you’ll have a beautiful 60 degree day where the snow has all but melted by dinner time, at which you’ll be having a terrible thunderstorm.

West Virginia, where I spent my time in University was actually pretty close to New England in this regard. Weather was inconsistent and unpredictable. One day it was 70, the next 20, the next 50 with hail… I sorta liked that.

In Hangzhou it’s the exact opposite. Weather doesn’t pass through all willy-nilly and change constantly as if it were an ADD raddled child. Nope. It comes, buys a house, and just enjoys itself at a leisurely pace. The last week or so was sunny and warm and nice. Everyone was happy! Then Monday happened. On Monday the rain started, slowly but surely. Tuesday came and the rain began to fall full force. It’s Wednesday, the rain is still falling… I’d say the average rainstorm in New England or West Virginia lasts a few hours. Here I’d reckon the average rainstorm lasts about a week.

And so this is what I have to look forward to for the next week. Gloomy, cold, wet, crappy rain. I make it a rule not to ride the ‘ol velocipede in the rain, so I’ll be hoofin it as well!

The flip-side, of course, is once it’s sunny and nice it stays that way for some time. That’s OK, I guess….

But me, I prefer the crazy weather of Massachusetts or West Virginia to the predictable and boring weather of almost Southern China any day.