I tell you,

GLOBAL WARMING is happening.

Not that I have any personal, historical basis for wintery assessments in Ukraine — but I’m told that what we are currently experiencing is more like spring, than winter. The first picture shows the thick snow coming down. I was very excited! I put down my oatmeal and grabbed my camera.

I have been here all winter, and it’s FAR from the prototypical propaganda positing prolonged precipitation periods, periodically prohibiting pleasant pastimes from polluting post-soviet puppet-states.

I don’t get it. Very little snow has fallen. And the temperature has been quite acceptable; ranging from -2°C to +8°C. Yesterday I almost went outside with a T-shirt on — luckily the little bit of wind reminded me that although it’s clear outside, the cold can pierce the skin very fast indeed.

Nevertheless, the fact remains that it hasn’t really snowed very much. I just checked the almanac to see what the record high temperature was = 51°F (10.5°C). Well, two days ago it was 8°C on outside on my balcony’s thermometer, albeit absolutely unofficial (but it is outside, and not in the sun).

Though the almanac doesn’t have average snowfall outside the US, it does have the Kyiv average number of days with precipitation (19) and of those, snow (16). Honestly, I don’t think we have reached half of that, at best. Very strange…

Funny enough… not more that 5 minutes after the top picture was taken, I snapped the bottom one. Seriously… not more than 5 minutes!!! It is supposedly very much like spring weather, where storms are patchy, dropping some rain/snow and then moving away leaving blue skies in their place.

I guess we can thank greedy corporations and governments for not giving a shit about our environment, and only about the bottom line. Oops, I probably shouldn’t say that kind of stuff, huh?