Weather in Germany (February 18,2007)

Well, I don't know what everyone else was doing on February 18th back in the States, but here's me in Germany:


That's right, napping on our couch, outside, in shorts and a T-shirt, in February, in Germany! It was around 50F or so and it was really sunny, so it was very comfortable to lay in the sun. I had an ice cream bar later too!

It's been very warm the whole time I've been here. We had only one snowfall where there was actually more than a centimeter of snow, and that was in January. We had maybe 9" of snow and it was all melted a few days later. Other than that, it's barely hit freezing here. Baden-Württemberg is, as a rule, the warmest region of Germany, but there should still be some snow! This kind of puts a damper on my skiing in the Alps plan, because to find snow there, you have to go really far away and to a high elevation.

Sometimes, I check the weather back home, and I've seen as much as a 20C difference! I'm enjoying the warm weather here though - I get to ride my bike around alot. I go exploring in the woods nearby (lots of paths and lakes) and sometimes at night I ride around the deserted streets of Vaihingen. It's very fun!

P.S. Sorry about the units! Of course, they use metric units here, and some I try to convert to English. It's cool though - I'm actually pretty much programmed into metric units already!