April 15, 2008

Predicting the summer weather in Zurich

IMG 1085This past weekend Zurich celebrated Sechseläuten, a couple days of parades and other festivities cumulating in the burning of the Böögg (a giant snowman-like creature) at 6pm on Monday evening. The time it takes for his head to explode is said to determine what kind of summer Zurich can expect. This year it took a long time, so a cold, wet summer has been predicted.

For more on Sechseläuten, see these posts on my personal blog from when I attended two years ago:

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1 comment to Predicting the summer weather in Zurich

  1. Suz
    April 16th, 2008 at 10:12 am

    I love all of these types of spring traditions to predict the weather, such as the United States Groundhog Day. It’s especially interesting when we think that just 100 years ago these were VITAL rituals to help farmers and tradespeople plan their crafts and the only methods of weather prediction. Now they’re just quaint. So interesting.

    But seriously - an exploding head? COOL!

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