Are you all going completely crazy from that weather forecast?

“Summer is coming, we're going into double digits next week,” said my coach Marco this morning while he made us do a minute of burpees as a dessert on an already exhausting lesson. I found it a delightful prospect. Not the burpees, but those double digits. At the office, I open my laptop and what do I see on Nu.nl? Extreme chaos expected on the roads on Monday and Tuesday due to slipperiness and winter weather.  Really. I don't know anymore. One moment it's raining and it's the warmest year since we started measuring, and the next moment we're skating on natural ice and a purple code is issued in Germany. I had never heard of that term, purple code, but then there is serious weather-related misery going on.

I really understand that it's difficult to interpret the weather. I once learned an important lesson during a brief job at the illustrious program Weather and Traffic: you must not use the word 'weather forecast'. Meteorologists talk about 'weather expectation'. Because predicting what will happen, with something as erratic as the weather, is impossible.

The proof of which was made abundantly clear again this week.

I really understand that it's difficult. I once learned an important lesson during a brief job at the illustrious program Weather and Traffic: you must not use the word 'weather forecast'. Meteorologists talk about 'weather expectation'. Because predicting what will happen...