Gina

For all the #KubeCon people surprised by the snow this morning, it might be good to know that #TheNetherlands has a 6 month winter period with 3 parts.

1st winter (Nov-Dec): cold, cute, christmas lights, holidays. 🎄

2nd winter (Jan-Feb): darkness, depression, despair. 💀

3rd winter: (March-April): spring, hope, a glimmer of- SIKE HERE'S ANOTHER COLD FRONT AND MORE WET SNOW YOU SWAMP PEASANT 🌨🌨🌨

Mar 26 at 8:34amWeb
Show threadMark ⛵️🏳️‍🌈Mar 26

@Gina Solidarity with our Dutch cousins…

Love, the UK

Show threadElena Rossini ⁂Mar 26
@not_a_label @Gina solidarity with our Dutch and British cousins... love, northern France 🥲
Show threadSebastianMar 26

@_elena @not_a_label @Gina Ah, that's like the linguistic diversity of the Inuit, who supposedly have so many words for snow.

We only have one part and only one word for it.
It's called: MATSCH! 🫩

Solidarity with our Dutch, British, and French cousins… love, Germany. 😘

Show threadVincent TunruMar 26
@Gina This is painfully accurate.
Show threadVincent 🌻🇪🇺 en 🌹☘️Mar 26

@Gina There is a reason our most important app is ‘buienradar’, or precipitation radar.

It’s for planning bike rides in between downpoor…

Show threadAlexMar 26

@Gina That sounds pretty good to me...

I'm used to schools and public transport preemptively stopping because the weather forecast said there was a small chance of snow. Then....

Absolutely nothing happens. Not even some pathetic wet snow 😕

Show threadNancy GhentMar 26
@Gina Belgium too...
Show threadcaffetinoMar 26
@Gina sometimes all three winter types occur in the same day 😄

Condolences from the UK 🥶
Show threadTubemeisterMar 26
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Show threadMirjam #anderhalvemetergraagMar 26
@Gina accurate
Show threadAaron Sawdey, Ph.D.Mar 26
@Gina This has a remarkable resemblance to Minnesota Winter … though 2nd winter for us is punctuated by “it’s so cold the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales have converged, if you have more than 2 square inches of skin exposed when you go out we’ll discover your frozen corpse in spring”
Show threadGinaMar 26
@acsawdey I'll add it to my list of places to never visit 😁
Show threadParttimesailorMar 26
@Gina my favorite saying from my time in The Netherlands: “If you’re lucky, Summer will come on a Saturday “.
Show threadLeon CowleMar 26
@Gina @dtabb73 Surprised that no one has commented with this common meme yet, which everyone always copies and edits their own city name into. LOL.
Seems you are in your 3rd winter phase now.