Cursed television. Without it, the people of Messina would never have discovered if not by hearsay, that there are places where the winter snows begin in September and already getting cold. I have heard in stories, fairy tales, in the accounts of travels in northern Italy and in central and northern Europe some writer or traveler, I have heard tales of some Sicilian mountain a little cold-scirocco-allowing it, but they would not attended every day even if all'impietoso sad trickle of images for Messina is a daily torture: people already in long sleeves in late August, winter snow, summers that last three months.
Damn the fashion. Without it, the people of Messina would never have discovered if not by hearsay, that there are places where the clothes they wear autumn early autumn and winter, winter clothes and wear them all winter, and 3-4 days a year.
Dear inhabitants of the Val D'Aosta, Trentino, Abruzzo, fatevene one reason: the heat is not good. The humid heat weakens, the sirocco makes irritable, mosquitoes until late November is not exactly a good thing, odorino of sweat on the tram is not the best.
Dear Milan, Turin, Florence, pull out the usual story of the wind, namely that on the south coast is good because there is the wind and you, the people of the plains and the interior, you've still air and suffocating: it is be true that for three months without a warm wind beast is not the best (and I envy you), but you try to have six months of heat: the double. More fan, but twice.
Abstract: In Sicily, in the hills but especially in the mountains, the cold does. Does not make them like the mountains of Molise, Basilicata and Calabria from the nearby, but makes it so much that there are countries that are quite familiar with the snow. It is not unbearably cold, not a cold that lasts for months and months, but it does. But on the coast from Messina to Catania to Siracusa to Palermo to Trapani, this is hell. I'll take care of Messina, because I know them better, but I am sure that my comments may apply to other Sicilian shores.
Damned, we said, fashion and TV, because they did know that there are places to Messina in the world where it's really cold.
So as soon as the first rains come in September, people start to get excited because it's "cool": apart from the fact that "cold" for Messina means that there are 25 degrees, a little wind and overcast with drizzle, the astounding thing is that even older people, who know that November 1 is not fresh, they delude themselves that autumn has arrived. Maybe they heard on TV that Italy is in the grip of the cold and think they are included because they also see pictures of people shivering with Milan? Or maybe you really feel cold? The second assumption is even more disturbing. And so in September to see people check with the quilt and boots. No joke: down jacket and boots, to Messina, in September. To do feel uncomfortable Messina also help shops who have the autumn / winter, only to hear the name causes warm to the most sensible. Not to most of Messina which runs to grab the sweaters and jackets, as if there were any reason. In October
usually the night begins to cool (so to say, we say that dropping to 18 degrees do not have to go to Lourdes) and Messina started to say that the night is cold and it takes the cover. You look at him stunned, but he really feels the cold. Now that the perception of living in a cold place in summer rarely falls below 23 degrees in winter and almost never below 4 is different from a Finnish thing is obvious, that you can feel cold 18 degrees and go to bed, crouched among the covers is very different. Missing is the fireplace.
In November, around at 10, begins to cool, the sea is no longer a stock of nearly 30 degrees, so you can even aspire to get to 12-13 degrees, if all goes well and you're lucky. But it's still hot, and getting on the tram is still no air conditioning. In December
usually rains a lot, and you have a decent atmosphere in autumn. Autumn but not winter, since there is almost never drops below ten this month. The sea, in fact, it is still warm. The
Messina started to get dressed heavy, even when a splash hit south-west is the temperature to 19-20 degrees. I hear people complain about the street: "Oh, this weather is weird, yesterday cold (11 degrees, ed) and hot today." It is not strange: you are in Sicily, on the coast, well Put it in your head. You are at the same latitude of Tunis. You are in the city that has the highest minimum temperatures in Europe. D'Europa! Moreover, there is an old proverb that says, "Before the Christmas and not friddu family, Natali dopu friddu and family." Before Christmas, neither cold nor hunger after you. We must give time to the sea to cool or not? Instead, Messina, Christmas, convinced that a church Fissiraga, in Casale Monferrato or Gualdo Tadino, turn on the heat during the dinner. Too bad that there are sixteen degrees outside. At midnight.
So we arrive in January, which in recent years has become an extension of autumn, but usually sees the first "cold". But it is the end of January and early March that the Messina gives the best.
arrive 2-3 days of disruption from Russia or the North Atlantic: the air is cooled (down to 6 degrees business is no longer titanium) and white patches appear on the mountains. Thus began the pilgrimage to Dinnammare, over a thousand feet above the top of the capital where it does not snow much but at least a few inches does. Throngs of Messina desperate and hungry for snow, the first weekend, rising to Dinnammare see their little ones to make the white lady.
"Shit! There friddu! And there surfaces' vvidiri figghiu me to Nivi," said the enthusiastic Messina after eight hours in a row to climb to the top. In the mountains of Messina behave exactly as in the city: cars double parked, engines running, even if the line is long and there is no escape, overtaking on the right, that make the scooter gymcana between the cars. The quilts, which now make sense (and not in September) are replaced by improbable ski suits (but then where would like to ski?), And you see rows of Messina happy that you take with snowballs.
Meanwhile, the news reports of frost damage throughout Italy, Abruzzo, Molise, Puglia, Basilicata and Calabria paralyzed by the snow, and the white coat can also reach Pescara, Termoli Bari and Messina, The wonders how it can snow on the sea, "but com DDA nivica cca no "? I would say no, seeing the sun after the snow in super Dinnammare (4 cm) has already reappeared in there are 12 degrees. The
Messina, this month and a half-chilly that extends to the beginning of March because the sea is cold now-discovered the taste to make scarf, gloves, hat in the heart of town in broad daylight. Scene in the eyes of people from outside are ridiculous, even if gruesome (several times I happened to be ashamed of the north with family in front of scenes like that). A usually arrives in March last cold spell (there are normally three in all ...) and reach the apotheosis of the Arctic. Why not just attend the scenes you've seen before, but with the addition that we are in March and then "should arrive in the spring" (but why? Have 14-15 degrees until the day before is this?) See
women with expensive furs about the cold the night before: "Look, the thermometer marked pharmacy 7 degrees, a cold crazy .... and we are almost in the spring" "Yes, you saw how much snow Dinnammare? My husband brought our son and told me that there was two feet. " You've been there the day before and there were a few inches, but let him speak. And listen to them warm. Now, with the wind blowing in Messina throughout the year with seven degrees and winds at 50 mph can feel a little chilly there is no doubt, but the fur? And fired central heating throughout the winter? And above all: the two feet of snow where she saw her husband??
At the end of March the cold now (or at least, the coolness) is just a sweet memory, and up to early May is good. But then comes the summer. Six months of summer. From May to October. Six months of sweat, mosquitoes, fatigue, six months in which you see in the rest of the world from time to time the summer is interrupted by a little cool and you do not, and you wonder why you are sentenced to undergo six months of 'six in the spring and summer. The solution? Inventing a parallel world in which it is so cold in September to use the quilt, and in which 3 cm in the winter trade for half a meter. Or laugh at those who live in cold places, because "we have a good climate", and then die from envy. The only way to survive the hell of the Mediterranean climate, the sweetest there is. Recommend him. We exchange?
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