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@emily-waldorf

Ooooh, if you don’t want to talk about weather, you’re barking up the wrong tree, lol. I love the topic of weather.   And your winters are damp, as well as being cold! (Damp is the worst in wintertime. Thankfully we don’t have too much of it here.) It gets down to -28.89 C/-20 F where I live, usually at least once a winter.

Oh, goodness!!! That’s SO cold!! That’s horrid!

Yeah, it’s usually damp unless it’s freezing or snowing. Then it’s that kind of dry, crackling cold that makes your fingers go numb and everything you touch shocks you and the static! It isn’t fun XD

Also, all the animals’ water buckets freeze over so you have to constantly defrost it and the pipes freeze outside so you have to stomp inside in barn boots to get hot water to slightly defrost everythingXD Very fun XD

Do you get a lot of ice where you live? Can you skate? We can usually skate every few years. We had great skating ice last year! Unfortunately, I hadn’t learned to skate before that, so I managed to fall no less than seven times within about two hours but it was very fun! (and I picked it up!)

Do you get a lot of windchill where you live? also, in the middle of the winter, just how much daylight do you have? I’m guessing you have less than us…darkness and cold (and wet, for you) combined is rather depressing…

Depressing is right XD It’s miserable XD We have about eight hours of light on the shortest day, in December. The weeks before and after are generally referred to as “The Dark Days” accurately, since the sun sets at like 4:30 pm. It’s awful XD

And the windchill is awful XD The Netherlands is incredibly flat (Whenever I need to describe it, I usually say imagine the flattest place you’ve ever been. It’s flatter than that.) And we live in an agricultural area with a lot of open plains, so the wind is something terrible.

It’s always slightly windy, and in the autumn and winter we have almost constant wind. In winter, that’s horrible XD

Yup… you have wild weather, but it does sound fun…at least sometimes. XD

Well, it gives you plenty to talk about XD All you have to say to start a conversation with Dutch people is “Aren’t we having terrible weather?” XD