Summer 2004 over - How long till it snows?

Is it me or was it bl**dy cold this morning?

Freezing on the bike today!

Answer: it's both.
Obviously it is you, otherwise you wouldn't have noticed it.
But so did I and almost everyone else I've spoken to so far. Autumn is on it's way.

Looking out the window into my garden and seeing the leaves turning yellow and falling off the trees, I would say that Autumn is already here.

Wonder if any bookies over here will give me odds on snow falling during oktoberfest

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Yeah, it was a damn cold bike ride this morning. Must say though, it's a nice start to autumn.

Three years ago, we had two inches of snow on the ground in September where I used to live north of Augsburg.

Im no meterologist, but hopefully the relatively colder summer should mean earlier snow, which should hopefully mean a better ski season. A good ski season could easily make up for a bad summer.

Er, yes, but I don't remember there being too much wrong with the last ski season either.

Really? Wouldn't know, was too busy deep in nappies to even think about skiing.

oo snoow.. can't wait! i love when it snows and its so cold out and ur nice n warm in ur bed or a big sweatshirt or sumfin...
anyway.. shouldn't be tooo long.. maybe alittle over a month.. last yr we went on vacay in mid october and came back and there was snow here... so...

Bring on the autumn - no more sunburn! But now I have to figure out my gas heating without blowing the flat up.

The Oktoberfest is normally the last chance of getting some nice warm weather before Autumn hits us although I have experienced 32 degrees here in November before.

It snowed during Oktoberfest 2 years ago so anything could happen. All the ski resorts will start the winter preparations around October and the ski season only really gets going beginning to mid December, although the glaciers are usually perfect by then anyway.

Winter is the only season we have up in Canada...you get used to it...I never saw grass until I got here to Munich...Strange green snow???

The weather in this place sucks ass. That is all.

let it snow now and lots!

this summer rubbish is totaly overated, lots of insects bitting you, sun giving you skin cancer, ugly people wearing to short or to tight clothes and looking rather elephanty, to hot and sweaty to work efficently, biergarten are overfull, old men wank posers with their cabrios and 13 year old girlfriends always driving way too slow, bier getting to warm because of the heat, crappy torists milling around and blocking marianplatz and worse of all all the young scrumpet walking around with serious cloths coverage dificency and distracting me from being able to drive, ride a bike, or finsh a sentence due to my jaw dropping.

winter, bring it on!

@Canuck

Now now...that is not true! We have lovely summers and they get damn hot. Yes winter does start early...but I would have given anything for a traditional hot TO summer this year. I did not find it hot here at all...not compared to humidex levels warning people to stay inside. Mind you seems this year was crappy in most places.

@DW...I am beginning to think so...although everyone swears 'this never happens here'. Yeah sure.

However, the sun hath shone for days and days...so maybe it is onward and upward for the fall :-)

As Crawlie said, it stays SUMMER until after the Wies'n!

From experience over the previous years, summer is generally getting later and later, so you get a hot spell in spring, cold, then generally warm until 2 wks before oktoberfest, then oktoberfest is gorgeous weather, then sudden switch to f-ing freezing winter.
global warming is certainly taking its toll though.. I think at the mo there are 5-6 hurricanes/typhoons in the world somewhere. 5 and 6 yrs ago summer was a scorcher and was more consistent.

Didn't rain the entire Oktoberfest like last year or two years ago?

last year was a kick-ass summer. very long very hot and loads of skimpily clad maidens to keep the hormones racing!

and you are complaining?

Exactly my sentiments. Woe betide this old Fuddy Duddy Gideon!

yes i am seriously getting worried about Gideon. I have read a number of his posts today and they are strting to sound like my Grandfather!

"in my day girls didn't run around like little tarts..."

@ Graham...and what happens to the hormons in Winter...nevermind...

I also love German Winters...cold and dry. Blue sky, snow on the ground, and a bit of sunshine ...just perfect.

But wait a minute...we are just getting into autumn...also worth experiencing, especially in Munich where there is so much green changing colours. Winter doesn't really get going until the middle of November.

PLEASE don't say the S word!!!