Despite the fact that it is March, it has been a particularly cold, snowy and long winter here in the Netherlands.  If you are interested in tracking the weather in the Netherlands, there is a great little site called buienradar that tracks the weather across the Netherlands 24 hours a day.

Here is a handy list of winter weather words that I’ve found myself using a lot lately, while hoping that the sun will come out again soon:

de sneeuw: the snow

besneeuwd : snowy

het ijs : the ice

glad : slippery

de regen : the rain

nat : wet

de wind : the wind

winderig : windy

waaien : to blow (ex. door de wind waaien)

de natte sneeuw : the sleet

de hagel : the hail

koud : cold

ijskoud : freezing, literally ice-cold

vriezen : to freeze