Tag: thunderstorms

  • The Sorrow of Belgium

    The Sorrow of Belgium

    The best thing about summer temperatures is that they are generally followed by thunderstorms. And that’s exactly my favourite kind of weather. As much as Belgians fear temperatures above 25 degrees, they also fear thunderstorms. The country even gets ‘codes’ when there might be thunderstorms coming. Code yellow, code orange, code red… depending on how…

  • The saint who lost track of time…

    So today, to my big disappointment, she was mentioned again : the saint, responsible for the the heavy thunderstorms around the end of the month august. She is called Santa Rosa. It turns out that she has completely lost track of time. She is due around the end of august, a few days before and after…

  • Tormenta de Santa Rosa (Storm of Saint Rosa)

    I am sure it is a coincidence : good weather phenomenons are called after male saints and bad weather phenomenons are called after female saints. After the Veranito de San Juan, it looks like we are now getting the Tormentas de Santa Rosa. After the first spring-like days at the end of august, beginning of…