Last four or five days, we have had snowfall in the southeast England. Even today... Last three years since I came to Britain, I have never seen this kind of weather. I asked my colleague, who has lived here more than five years, if he has seen the similar weather before, but his answer was negative.
Nevertheless, thanks to the Gulf stream (probably), snow melts quickly this year. In fact, it is now at noon and I can still see, through my office windows, snow falling, but there is no snow on the road. When I came to the university this morning, the world was totally white, though.
So, the serious problem this time is the snow on the raod early in the morning, in particular on Thursdays. This is based on a totally selfish reason, that is, I have a lecture of Maths to give from 9:00 am to 11:00 am every Thursday in the Spring semster. So, I need to come to the university by 8:30 am. Around 8 o'clock, air temperature is still low and there is much snow on the road.
Last three years, I have at least one day per year when I needed to fight with snow to come to the university. Two years ago was the most serious. I could not drive a car on that day, but luckily I lived relatively near to the university at that time. So, I can walk to the university. Now, I am living far away from the University. Even by car, it takes about 30 minutes (using high-speed road, similar to freeways), so if heavy snow falls I have a great difficulty to come to Guildford.
They say the global warming is happening. Yes, there are many strange things happening in weather and climate, but sometimes not in a way we expect. Well, if you say "warming", then why so many snow in early spring or end of winter? Of course, I know things are not so easy and complicated because the dynamics that weather follows is highly non-linear. But still, simply from the selfish reason, I hope the "warming" is literally meant as "warming". What I am saying is that I don't like warm winter, but that I want real spring without much snowfall! (I believe today can be regarded as "early spring"...)
In a Korean drama I have recently seen, there was a scene for a couple who went out for a date for the first time to ask personal questions with each other. The questions contained:
"What is your favorite colour?" --- "White"
"What is your favorite season?" ---- "Winter"
Definitely, with 100% surely, I don't belong to that sort of humans. (The drama is "Kyour Yonka", or "冬恋歌", of course...)
