Weather in Bucharest - you will always have something to complain about!

Whatever the weather in Bucharest, Romanians, like the Brits, are sure to complain about it. Unlike the Brits, the Romanians are ironically a warm sunshine based people - so do not do well when it rains (6 months of the year) or snows (3 months of the year). If any nation had more fear of water, in all its forms, you would have found the country where the wicked witch of the West from over the rainbow lives.

When it rains, they worry about the slightest amounts of rain reaching them - and will always have an umbrella to hand. There are regular radioactive cloud which only local authorities and the news will report - none of this will be mentioned on the BBC or any English-speaking news channel. The amount of fear the volcanic, dust clouds from Iceland generated was amazing. My wife didn't want me outside, I pointed out that in Bucharest the volcanic dust, even radioactive dust, would do less harm to me than general Bucharest pollution.

When the weather in Bucharest gets cold -beware of the ice. It is each blocks legal responsibility to remove snow and ice from the pavements. Some will - most won't. The same goes for icicles hanging from the roofs - they grow extraordinarily long - and would hurt if they happen to hit you from 10 stories up. A few people every year do go into a coma or die from them.

The snow will fall thick and fast and Bucharest will look really beautiful for a few days until the snow mixes with the dust, dirt and general pollution in Bucharest and return to brown. The parking spaces at this point are fiercely protected as digging 50 cm of snow out for your car means you expect the space t still be there later - as obviously you don't want to clear the whole street. In my case it is easy - when it gets cold, immediately m car battery loses all power and so can't be moved - even if I wanted to!

Then comes the spring warming. This is another terrible time in Romania, as the snow becomes slush for months but this is not a Romanians real worry - the real worry is what happens to all the snow and icicles on the roofs of the city blocks. The icicles become mini missiles as they fly randomly towards the earth. The snow comes down as a thundering avalanche and does terrible damage to your car underneath. Friends of mine drive around in dented cars from the snow falling on them - think what it would do if it hit you!

After the snows comes the rain. The rain here is not exceptional, but then again the drainage system of Bucharest is even less exceptional - so there are always huge floods and puddles in the city in spring.

For as long as Spring lasts here - normally 2 weeks - you could not ask for better Bucharest weather. There will be blue skies and a perfect temperature day and night. To prove this I have gone home in winter and 2 weeks later come back to a baking summer and completely missed spring all together.

Romanians complain about the weather in Bucharest and their summers. They are really hot - too hot for Romanians and the news is full of dire warnings of being in the sun - even the shady nooks under apple trees are deemed hidden type of radiation which apparently passes into the shade Plus of course the heat makes fruit drop early, and no one in Romania seems to be able to survive baby apples dropping on them - so constant fear abounds our house!

The nice thing about summer is that every day, at 4.00 it rains an amazingly violent storm for about 15 - 30 minutes. Enough to catch you off guard and wet. Not enough to really water the garden.

However, despite all this, the weather in Bucharest won't stop your fu here as in the sun there are the parks, in the rain there are malls and museums and the locals will make you feel welcome, whatever the weather.

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