You, wherever you are, might think you're having a heat wave. But Berlin has been like a Swedish sauna for two weeks. It's hard to believe this place ever gets cold. I'll admit London may be worse ("The London underground system, the oldest in the world, was a furnace on Tuesday with a record temperature of 47 C"), but the heat in Berlin somehow manages to be humid and dry at the same time -- muggy thunderstorm weather that the stone buildings and sandy ground trap and radiate into the sky at night. July may be the hottest month here in a century. If this keeps up 2006 may also be sunnier than 2003, which was especially hard on the French but produced some of the best German Riesling in almost fifty years.
posted by Michael Scott Moore |
9:05 AM
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well as long as we get more good wine out of it, bring on the global warming!
