I can't believe I haven't posted about the weather yet! I am clearly lacking in my small talk abilities. Must practice.
The day I arrived in Moscow, at 7.30pm, the weather was balmy. It felt like a summer evening in France. The next few days were also lovely. Hot and sunny, mildly humid and the Metro was wonderfully sweaty. Then we had a day of grizzly weather and since then the weather's been up & down. It has been sunny and warm, but not excessively hot - certainly not hot enough to tan with, but then also overcast, drizzly and slightly colder. The evenings are definitely dropping in temperature gradually. I imagine by the end of September the evenings will mandate a coat. So far I've been surviving in hoodies and my Zara jacket. I did wear my pea-coat & scarf to the fireworks on Sunday but over heated in the subway pile-up and felt a littttttttle bit silly. But I'd rather that than get ill, so there.
I can't wait for it to get cold here. It's just the sort of cold that I like, much like the North American cold. It's crisp cold, with snowfall all round and the sun still shining, not the drizzly wet cold we get in England where all the snow turns black instantly. I'm very much looking forward to rocking my gorgeous winter boots and testing their waterproof-ness. I also think that the Russians are much better equiped to deal with the snow, unlike my best friends BAA at Heathrow. If my flight gets cancelled because of them on December 23rd I will throw a hissy fit unlike any they have ever seen.
However, I did read an interesting snippet on RT.com that last year Domodedovo (one of 3 airports in Moscow & where BA flies to and from) ran out of de-icer around Christmas time and that 10,000 people had to sleep in the airport. Further this week there were threats of a 'no fly rule' because they were running super low on jet fuel. Whilst the Russians may be good at dealing with snow & clearing it off the runway/roads etc, they may lack certain things which will enable them to be totally efficient. However, that's how they do it here in Russia. Gotta' love it. Not.
However, I did read an interesting snippet on RT.com that last year Domodedovo (one of 3 airports in Moscow & where BA flies to and from) ran out of de-icer around Christmas time and that 10,000 people had to sleep in the airport. Further this week there were threats of a 'no fly rule' because they were running super low on jet fuel. Whilst the Russians may be good at dealing with snow & clearing it off the runway/roads etc, they may lack certain things which will enable them to be totally efficient. However, that's how they do it here in Russia. Gotta' love it. Not.
