Spring Is Back

The temperature in our city had been on abnormal increase for almost half a month until yesterday, reaching as high as 30 degrees Centigrade. Many people complained the spring was too short, summer seemed to have come unexpectedly early before they had the chance to wear half of their smart spring clothes in their closets. In the streets, we could see women in colorful miniskirts and transparent pantyhose, and men in short-sleeved shirts. In the countryside, crops and wells were drying up, in desperate need of a heavy rainfall.

Ah, had summer already come so eagerly? But it’s only early April! If the temperature continued to climb, this year’s summer would definitely be the hottest one on record, then how could we living beings weather out the extreme heat in the following months? That would be a big problem.

However, some people including myself, didn’t believe the temperature would keep going up. Although these years global warming has been a scientifically indisputable fact, the changes couldn’t have been so drastic. The rain would fall sooner or later.

The good news is that the local weather report says that temperatures in the next few days will drop to below 20 degrees with overcasts, showers and light rainfalls. It’s really exciting.

Last night, the thirst of the mother earth was more or less quenched by a moderate rainfall. This morning, it was still drizzling, the air was so appealingly fresh, the trees and grass were so brilliantly green, I couldn’t wait to go out after breakfast.

I didn’t go far, just a 20-minute’s walk along the road in our green neighborhood. Totally exposed to the intoxicating after-rain world, I felt tremendously refreshed and cheered up. It seems that spring is still here with us, not having given way to summer so easily or so soon. Then, seize time to enjoy the transitory beauty spring has brought to us before it quietly passes away!

Here below are a few pictures I took this morning in the drizzle. Hope you’ll enjoy them.

Local Weather Forecast