21 December 2008

Winter wonderland

The weather gadgets on the left side of our blog allow comparison of temps and precip in Lincoln, NE and in Windhoek. It's summer in southern-hemisphere Windhoek, and Mother Nature is helping to make the transition to Namibia as drastic as possible. In the past week, a mix of icy rain and snow hit Lincoln--enough to cancel Tristan's last day of school. Wonder how many snow days Windhoek has?!

Although is it theoretically possible to see snow in the Windhoek weather forecast (see here to see how it can be 71 degrees F and snow at same time), we're guessing we won't see our Windhoek house covered in snow and icicles.

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to NTN readers. Next report will be from London or Namibia. We're headed to London for New Years Eve and arrive in Windhoek on Jan. 3. Imaginative readers can grasp the chaos that is actually happening inside this serene winter depiction of our Lincoln home--9 suitcases lying about with assorted piles strewn from one end to the other. On the flip side, my office at UNL has never been so clean.

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