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| Courtesy Ulak Kıbrıs |
We intend to walk down to Lambousa market as usual on a Saturday, but there’s a sharp wind and it’s overcast. And there’s nothing in particular that we need there so opt for the grocery store instead.
Look at AccuWeather and it tells me that it is raining and will be for the next sixty minutes. It isn’t, but take the hint and go outside to rescue the towels from the drying rack.This has the predictable effect of guaranteeing that we remain rain free all day.
However, there are parts of the TRNC that experience snow. Photo taken apparently shows a road on the Karpaz peninsula at the far northeast end of the island. It will melt of course but that’s a quantity of snow normally seen only in the Troodos mountains. We have been in Larnaca when it snowed, but that would only be a few flakes melting as they hit the ground - and people would come out to watch because it doesn’t happen every year.
Meanwhile, ironically, there is a report saying that turtles are nesting earlier in Cyprus as the climate warms. Green and Loggerhead turtles are coming back earlier each year. Turtles, which are protected in Cyprus, come back to the area where they themselves hatched to lay their eggs and each one degree increase in sea temperature sees them laying eggs 1.6 days earlier. Warmer seas also mean a higher proportion of female offspring. In February sea temperatures are usually about fifteen to seventeen degrees Celsius.
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