Weather

I don't think I'll ever figure out the weather here (and the absence of The Weather Channel doesn't help matters--why is it that back home you can get a detailed forecast for each little town, plus radar to see that a storm is currently over Fairfax County and headed for our house in the next 20 minutes, but here you can only find a general forecast for the northern and southern parts of the country?). Basically I've figured out that the forecast is completely irrelevant--it can either rain or be sunny at any time, with no rhyme or reason whatsoever (except when there are weeks on end of gray and overcast--when Gretchen arrived in Zurich this week, they announced the current conditions as "freezing fog"). Case in point: after being sunny and freezing cold all week--every morning, all the cars in the neighborhood were encased in frost from top to bottom--yesterday it warmed up a little and last night it was raining and so windy it sounded like a hurricane outside, then this morning we were eating breakfast and looked outside to see that it was snowing, and now 10 minutes later it's sunny with a blue sky. As you can imagine, planning how to dress for the day is a bit of an art form.