Weather

It never fails....we come to Amsterdam and this weird abnormal weather pattern begins.

November is normally the rainiest month here. We knew that. Up until now it has been sunny every morning and then starts to drizzle around 2-3pm. It usually drizzles on and off for the rest of the day. It's really not that bad because it's not a heavy rain and we all brought our waterproof coats, gloves, hats, etc.

This afternoon the air turned VERY cold, the wind became VERY strong and it was a complete downpour! It has been raining pretty heavy since then (almost 8 pm now). The streets here are not equipped to deal with the heavy rain - not a good drainage system, mainly because they don't usually need one. So many of the streets are accumulating water. The bike-riders (millions of them) don't want to ride through the big puddles of water so they have taken to walking their bikes on the alread-crowded sidewalks. It's a mess!

Now we just heard on the news that it is supposed to SNOW tomorrow! Light dustings are typical here, but accumulation is not. We'll see what happens now that we're here!