Friday 22 February 2008

the crazy weather of Leeds!!

Leeds weather seems to be off lately.. not sure if its because its transiting from winter to spring or just plain Leeds weather? Surprisingly it was snowing more this year in Leeds compared to last year. But i missed most of the snowing days.. cause i was back in Malaysia soaking up the sun and i got sunburned too! Malaysia Boleh!! No idea why did i just say that for! Anyway...

When i got back to Leeds, the weather was just nice! Imagine air-condition room at 16 degrees! But that day the weather was 12 degree with S-U-N which is a superb weather if you tried living in the UK through 4 seasons! So the days was getting hotter (excited cause it was sufficient enough to wear only 2 layers of shirt and go out) Till a few days ago, suddenly the air was all foggy and it was lightly snowing!! with those naked tree branches covered in frost for the entire day! I mean even if it snowed before, the ice never lasted for more then an hour! Amazing!!

trees outside my house 'orang sakai bah'

So it was cool and everything, ya the weather is damper and colder so what! Wait till i tell you whats the weather today!! I tell you, those 'atap' house (if it existed in UK) also wouldn't be able to survive!

Today, it was windy but not to your average windy day in Leeds, ever experienced those days in Kuching where its like typhoon? with trees uprooting and roof tile flying? I mean you will experience this occasionally in Leeds (on avg the wind speed is about 14mph = 22.5kmph) . Today the wind speed was 30 - 35mph (= 48-56kmph) I mean try walking against the wind!! Its madness. Even if you ran its feels like you running in slow motion. Or even worst walking in the same direction as the wind! almost feels like its possible for human to fly. Even if you were driving in the car, you can feel the car vibrating, imagine a Kancil driving and being squashed in between 2 trailers in a highway. Yup thats the same kinda force you will experience. Plus it was raining! No way any umbrella can survive that.. I myself have broken countless of umbrellas!


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