白色聖誕 / White Christmas

今年的天氣反常,不知是否和地球溫暖有关系。還有四天就是聖誕,但出面氣溫是大約零度左右,所有地上薄薄的積雪都不見了,今早還看到有些北雁,仍未南飛。在這個処於北面的國家,沒有白色聖誕,就總缺乏節日的氣氛,大雪紛飛,顧客才会多去商場購物,孩子才会出外玩雪堆做雪人。通常在十二月,我应已開始滑雪,但天氣如此溫暖,雪靴雪橇等都要到天氣冷點才可以出場了。

This year's weather is really strange, maybe it has something to do with Global Warming, We are four days away from Christmas and yet the temperature is still around zero degree and the thin snow on the ground has all disappeared. This morning, I even saw a few Canadian geese hanging around instead of flying south. In this northern country, the absence of snow during Christmas really hampers the festival spirit. Until the snow flies, customers will not rush out to do more shopping and children will not be able to build snow castles and snowmen. Normally by this time in December, I would have already started my skiing. But with such warm weather, my ski boots and skis will just have to wait till the temperature gets colder.