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6.Weather, Time

The Czech Republic has a moderate continental climate. A year is divided into four seasons: spring, summer, autumn, winter. Each seasons lasts about three months.

Spring begins on the 21st March. Nature begins awake from its long winter sleep and new life begins. Nights get shorter and days get longer. There is more sunshine and it becomes warmer and warmer. The snow melts and rivers and streams swell and there may be floods in the regions through which the rivers pass. The first flowers appear: white snowdrops and snowflakes, yellow marsh marigolds, dandelions and daffodils, blue forget-me-nots, coloured crocuses and tulips, violets and catkins and chestnuts come into blossom. Birds such as swallows, starlings, and cuckoos come batch from the south and we can hear their singing again. The weather in spring, especially in April is really unpredictable and changeable. The temperatures are often below zero at night although days may be quite warm. Sometimes the sun shines and soon after it is overcoat or it sleets, pours with rain or it may even snow. One cannot go out without a raincoat and a thick sweater, boots, a cap or even gloves. But when it clears up, the air is fresh and people go far walks and enjoy the good weather.

Summer begins on the 21st June. Schoolchildren loves this season best because have two months holidays ahead. Everybody set out on journeys and take holidays. The temperature rises to 25oC or more and we may many fine days in a row. In the morning there is often dew, the sky is clear and bright, it is sunny and dead calm, no wind blows and sometimes we suffer from a heat wave. The weather is sultry, hot and dry. It is unbearable, when the drought lasts too long. People and nature long for rain. In summer rain often comes in the form storm. All of sudden the sky clouds over, it gets dark and cools down, a breeze changes into a strong wind. Then there is a crash of thunder and a flash of lightning and heavy downpour. Sometimes it starts hailing. After the storm a rainbow may appear a sky. You can see pools of water and puddles everywhere.

Summer is also the time for strawberries, bilberries, raspberries, blackberries and cranberries and the harvest of corn.

Autumn comes on the 23rd September. In autumn the sun sets earlier and rises later and days shorter. In the gardens it is time of harvest, we pick apples, pears and plums and gather potatoes and sugar beet. Grass turns yellow and gets dry. The leaves of maples, birches, ashes, beeches, oaks and larches become tinted yellow, orange, brown and red. Conifers (firs, pines, spruces) are evergreen. Many people go mushrooming. The trees shed their leaves and by November they will be bare. Birds flock together and set on the journeys to the south. In autumn the weather is unsettled, the sky is often cloudy, mornings are dull and it looks like rain. It usually does not clear up by day. The temperature drops, it becomes damp, chilly, wet and rainy and it may drizzle. There may passing showers, sometimes it rains on and off for a long time or it rains steadily. The weather is awful, wretched and nasty.

The first frosts come and in the morning there may be hoarfrost on the grass and haze or fog, and cold wind blows from the north. According to calendar, winter comes on 21st December. Typical winter weather brings snowfall, icy wind and hard frosts. We can enjoy skiing and hills covered with a thick layer of fluffy snow and we admire the winter landscape. Children enjoy their winter pleasers such as throwing snowballs, building snowmen, sledging, sliding and skating on lakes. The temperature sometimes drops some 20 below zero. Then the snow crunches underfoot, the hands get numb and fingers tingles with cold. If people go out without caps and mittens or gloves, they can suffer from frostbite. The roads become icy and slippery. You can skid easily icicles hang from the roof. Gardeners often become worried about their fruit trees and gamekeepers about the game, which may freeze to death.

Finally the frosts lets up and the thaw sets in, the snow melts and paths are full of mud and slush. And the spring comes. Spring comes earlier to the lowland.

 

 




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