Angry Tourist

středa 23. prosince 2015

Farewell, winter...

...i loved you sincerely.
Today is December the 23rd. I'm sitting in my apartment in Prague and there's sunny spring-like day behind my window. It's 12 degrees above zero out there, you can comfortably walk around just in t-shirt'n'hoodie. Hell, you can just cruise around in your t-shirt and shades on.
That's how the scene looks. I open my mailbox and... yay! There's the new "Avalanche News of the Avalanche Warning Service Tyrol"! It's the third one (!) this winter, last year by this time I already had around 20 of them in my mailbox. Anyway, let's read:

"Snow Layering
There is far too little snow for this juncture of the season. Furthermore, it is much too warm. A cohesive, area-wide snowpack is to be found only in high alpine regions, and in some shady high altitude zones. The snowpack far and wide is low in internal tensions. On shady slopes, the snow cover is frequently loosely-packed and faceted, weights will sink down to the ground; on sunny slopes, the snowpack surface has been heavily influenced by the melting process. In high alpine regions, the snowpack surface shows heavy impact from winds. Slab avalanches might find a gliding surface in the loosely-packed fundament beneath the old, hard drifted masses in shady gullies at high altitude. However, these threaten at most with snowslides which could bring about a fall.

Short Term Development
No significant change expected, ongoingly low avalanche danger. The next update will be published when a major shift occurs, at latest on 31.12.2015."

I used to love winter. Everything about it. It was the time of year when everything seemed to be how it should be to me.
So fuck this, fuck everybody pretending it's normal or even that it is better this way, because they are not cold anymore. Yeah, fuck you, soon you will be hot enough.

I'm outta here...