Blinds up, curtains aside, and then this: a white as far as the eye can see. Hardly had you crawled out from under the warm blanket on Saturday morning than you saw a blanket of snow on meadows and paths, branches and buds through the window. And on Sunday morning she was even fatter. At the weekend it snowed as much as one wishes for Christmas in December, but not now, in early April. Does it have to be that way? Can that even be true?
A few days ago it was so warm that people in short pants and short skirts strolled through the city and occupied every free café table in the sun. And now? All spring feelings are mercilessly put on hold. You have to be happy that the Sahara sand, which clouded the atmosphere over Bavaria last week, has blown on. Not quite as dramatic as in mid-March, when the sky glowed reddish-brown ocher-orange and was then washed out by what tabloid media boldly called “blood rain.” But still: The Sahara sand still hovered threateningly over you.
Can’t imagine what it would have looked like when you woke up this weekend, if desert dust and fresh snow had met and fallen to the ground together. Blood snow everywhere, not just on rooftops and bonnets. Apocalypse now!
That’s not what was meant by “freezing for peace”
Not only did it snow, it was also cold and frosty, so that the topic of heating costs, including oil and gas deliveries from Russia, which had only just been suppressed, popped up again. But that’s not what was meant by “freezing for peace”! If anything, that should be for next winter, but not right now. And besides, isn’t that another sign of unstoppable climate change, this snowfall in April?
Many gloomy thoughts trickled through my head, like the little white flakes outside in the fresh air. But there was also a reassuring memory – of a saying that grandma had already heard from her grandma: “April, April, he likes to do what he wants. Sometimes rain and sometimes sunshine, and sometimes it snows in between.”
In other words: It happened before that it snowed in April, it’s not a new phenomenon, so it’s not a reason for a doomsday mood. It’s supposed to be 15 degrees warm again on Wednesday.