A Long, Hard Bangalore Winter

Hello everyone,



I have been informed by my colleagues here in Bangalore that we are in the midst of winter, and that, like in the U.S., the decrease in temperatures is inversely proportional to the time taken to emerge from a nice, warm bed in the morning. So here we are, suffering through dismal average daily highs of 80 degrees and lows of 60 for the remainder of December. Sadly, we expect no better next month, and it is not until February that we anticipate the return of warm weather ( I have added a new link that graphs the average monthly temperatures in Bangalore if you are curious).



In all seriousness, the Indians that are native to the south of the country do, apparently, find this weather to be a bit on the cool side and when I said that I thought that it was warm out, I was told that nearly 80 degrees is not, in fact, warm at all. I guess it just goes to show that even the weather is subjective. Here I thought that the weather was beautiful, when it has actually been dismal by Bangalorean standards (okay, maybe dismal is a bit of an overstatement, more likely just miserable). I think that it is wonderful though, I have always thought that Christmas is better celebrated in flip-flops than in snow-shoes. If any of you agree, you are welcome to hop a flight to Bangalore to celebrate Christmas Indian-style with us (for an idea of what that entails, check out this link to a short video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owK5tHjL0aE), sorry to my Indian friends, this clip isn't exactly PC, but it is funny)!