Baby, It's Cold Outside! DISCLAIMER: IANAM, I Am Not A Meteorologist (but I have been feeling really cold recently).

We island folk have been experiencing some irregular weather these last couple of weeks. The Nation newspaper wrote about it today, and has confirmed what most of us already knew, it has been unusually cold!

We're talking temperatures as low as 21.3 degrees Celsius. Now before you pooh-pooh and laugh off our concerns, remember that Barbados is in the Caribbean, i.e., in the tropics (a.k.a, the temperate zone?), i.e., in a tropical climate, where temperatures are usually between 28 and 33 degrees (at least, that's what my little in-car temperature gizmo reads whenever I push the button).

If you really want a laugh, then you should hear how some of us protest the half an hour or so commute to work, or the fifteen-minute wait while stuck in traffic, but that's island life, eh? I've been up North a few times, watched T.V and heard the horror stories from others and I've learned to appreciate that commute times and time spent waiting in traffic, are all relative and highly subjective.

But when the temperature drops to 21.3 in Barbados, it does cause quite a stir. As such, it was no suprise to find one or two funny comments on the weather in The Nation's article:

'Basically, I just go under the sheets but I don't mind it. In fact,
I like it because I get to sleep much better at nights since it isn't too hot," said Pastor Ricardo Payne of Elim Gospel Church, Workmans, St George. However, one of the members of his congregation added: "No, no! It's too cold at nights, man, I can't deal with it!"'

However, this comment takes the cake:

'Another elderly woman who lives in Bath, St John, said: "This cool air don't bother me. When I start to see snow is when I'll get worried."'

Ma'am, you're not the only one. If it were to start snowing in Bim, I'd get plenty worried too!

Labels: Barbados, Caribbean, humour, life, weather

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