Winter time Guate / Denmark
Being in Denmark, I have felt a stronger connection with Guatemala.
We are a privileged nation… we are blessed with beautiful nature, amazing landscape, delicious food and a weather that everyone envies!
Guatemala is known as “The Land of the Everlasting Spring” and now I understand why. The flowers are always blooming and the trees are everlasting green.
Guatemalan’s complain in December and January that it is to COLD! What is cold? 10 degrees early in the morning or late at night? The coldest days in Guatemala, the temperature might drop to 8 degrees at night but when the sun shines we can easily get 15 degrees or 20. I was used to that in Guate. Here in Scandinavia if the sun shines it only means that the sky is clear therefore freezing cold! I know it sounds strange but it is true. Here it is a bit warmer when it is cloudy! Does that sounds normal? Because of Denmark's and Guatemala's geographical position it does! In winter, Scandinavia is very far from the sun. That is why nights are so short and the sun doesn’t warm although it is shining! By the other hand Guatemala is very close to the Ecuador; it doesn’t make a very big difference if it is June or January. If the sun is shining you can go to the beach and get tanned =) even though at night the temperature can drop.
Most of Guatemalans have never experienced a real winter like the ones they have in Europe or North America. During wintertime, there is almost no sun in Denmark.
The sunrise is at 930am and the sunset at 240pm. It can be sometimes depressing; I was taking the bus at 7am and it was totally dark and when I left work at 4pm it was dark again! So the only chance I had to see the daylight was during weekends because at my office I HAVE NO WINDOWS.
This year it was a very long, cold and dark winter. It lasted almost 6 months.
I learned to live with this cold; I was not freezing that much anymore! In Denmark they say it is not a bad weather, IT IS ONLY THE WRONG CLOTHS!
Get a good jacket, a thick scarf, gloves and a hat and you’re cool!
Winter has done something strange to me. I became Vikingish!
Now in May, if there are 13 degrees it is like wow so hot, I take my jacket off and ride my bike. If there are 15 degrees you can see people wearing flip-flops, girls with short shirts and guys wearing surfer swimsuits!
Finally last week the sun started shining again because spring came! It was a bit warmer and the sun was shining 18- 20 degrees! Danes were lying on the parks getting sunbath, drinking beer and making BBQs!
We all thought it would be an awesome summer but… yeah right! One day after that it started raining and the temperature droped to 5 degrees at night! I couldn’t accept that stupid weather again! I said good-bye to winter like 3 weeks ago and my winter jacket and scarf are already on my suitcase!
Sadly, Danish weather sucks and it is cold again but I don’t want to face it!
I am ridding my bike to work and I am only using a windbreaker and a pullover! It is not that bad. I am still using my gloves because I freeze my hands but the rest is fine!
It is 18th of May and we still have 8-10 degrees in the morning and the highest temperature is 14 degrees if we have luck!
The good thing is that there is a lot of daylight now! The sunrise is at 4am and the sunset is at 10pm!It is amazing the sky is dark blue until 1030pm and it looks beautiful! In June the sunset will be at 11pm and hopefully the weather will be great!
We are a privileged nation… we are blessed with beautiful nature, amazing landscape, delicious food and a weather that everyone envies!
Guatemala is known as “The Land of the Everlasting Spring” and now I understand why. The flowers are always blooming and the trees are everlasting green.
Guatemalan’s complain in December and January that it is to COLD! What is cold? 10 degrees early in the morning or late at night? The coldest days in Guatemala, the temperature might drop to 8 degrees at night but when the sun shines we can easily get 15 degrees or 20. I was used to that in Guate. Here in Scandinavia if the sun shines it only means that the sky is clear therefore freezing cold! I know it sounds strange but it is true. Here it is a bit warmer when it is cloudy! Does that sounds normal? Because of Denmark's and Guatemala's geographical position it does! In winter, Scandinavia is very far from the sun. That is why nights are so short and the sun doesn’t warm although it is shining! By the other hand Guatemala is very close to the Ecuador; it doesn’t make a very big difference if it is June or January. If the sun is shining you can go to the beach and get tanned =) even though at night the temperature can drop.
Most of Guatemalans have never experienced a real winter like the ones they have in Europe or North America. During wintertime, there is almost no sun in Denmark.
The sunrise is at 930am and the sunset at 240pm. It can be sometimes depressing; I was taking the bus at 7am and it was totally dark and when I left work at 4pm it was dark again! So the only chance I had to see the daylight was during weekends because at my office I HAVE NO WINDOWS.
This year it was a very long, cold and dark winter. It lasted almost 6 months.
I learned to live with this cold; I was not freezing that much anymore! In Denmark they say it is not a bad weather, IT IS ONLY THE WRONG CLOTHS!
Get a good jacket, a thick scarf, gloves and a hat and you’re cool!
Winter has done something strange to me. I became Vikingish!
Now in May, if there are 13 degrees it is like wow so hot, I take my jacket off and ride my bike. If there are 15 degrees you can see people wearing flip-flops, girls with short shirts and guys wearing surfer swimsuits!
Finally last week the sun started shining again because spring came! It was a bit warmer and the sun was shining 18- 20 degrees! Danes were lying on the parks getting sunbath, drinking beer and making BBQs!
We all thought it would be an awesome summer but… yeah right! One day after that it started raining and the temperature droped to 5 degrees at night! I couldn’t accept that stupid weather again! I said good-bye to winter like 3 weeks ago and my winter jacket and scarf are already on my suitcase!
Sadly, Danish weather sucks and it is cold again but I don’t want to face it!
I am ridding my bike to work and I am only using a windbreaker and a pullover! It is not that bad. I am still using my gloves because I freeze my hands but the rest is fine!
It is 18th of May and we still have 8-10 degrees in the morning and the highest temperature is 14 degrees if we have luck!
The good thing is that there is a lot of daylight now! The sunrise is at 4am and the sunset is at 10pm!It is amazing the sky is dark blue until 1030pm and it looks beautiful! In June the sunset will be at 11pm and hopefully the weather will be great!
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