Yoga for the Winter Blues 冬季 瑜伽課 給 沮喪

The waiting’s finally over. Snow descends on Taiping Mountain
終於等到了！太平山降下瑞雪

Tourists play in the snow on Taiping Mountain in Yilan County on Friday last week.
二月六日在宜蘭縣太平山上看到雪，遊客開心地玩起來。

Photo COURTESY OF THE Luodong Forest District Office
照片：羅東林管處提供

As a cold wave brought low-enough temperatures and sufficient moisture, at 7:30am on the morning of Friday last week snow finally fell on Taiping Mountain for the first time this winter. Delighted tourists danced with joy, shouting “The waiting’s finally over.” The Taiping Mountain Villa Hotel said that snow mixed with soft hail fell for about one hour. It then stopped snowing and the ground was covered with an approximately 0.5cm layer of snow.

From November last year until last week, the temperature at Taiping Mountain had fallen below zero many times, but due to insufficient moisture the most that formed was rime ice, with no snow falling. After nightfall on Thursday the temperature dropped below zero and there was sufficient moisture. By early morning, as Taiping Mountain’s plants and roadways started to ice over, an employee at the Taiping Mountain Villa Hotel predicted that there would be a chance of snow, and sure enough the auspicious snowfall came to pass.

(Liberty Times, translated by Edward Jones)

寒流來襲，這次冬天還未下雪的太平山，在溫度低濕度足的情況下，上周五早上七點半，終於降下瑞雪，遊客開心地手舞足蹈，直呼「終於等到了！」太平山莊表示，降雪時間約一個小時，中間夾雜冰霰，然後停止下雪，而地上有約量零點五公分厚的積雪。

太平山從去年十一月至上周，多次溫度在零下，但都因濕度不足，頂多結霧淞，沒有下雪。周四入夜後，溫度下降至零下，濕度也足夠，清晨時，太平山上的植物、道路，開始出現結冰情況，太平山莊人員評估有降雪機會，果真降下瑞雪。

〔自由時報記者朱則瑋〕

TODAY’S WORDS
今日單字

1. dance with joy v. phr. 手舞足蹈 

例: Viola danced with joy when she found out she had won first price.

(知道贏得頭獎，費歐拉手舞足蹈起來了。)

2. sure enough adj. phr. 果真 

例: The room was searched by the police and, sure enough, the gun was found.

(警察搜索房間，果真找到槍了。)

3. ice over v. phr. 結冰 

例: Once the road had iced over, driving conditions become extremely hazardous.

(道路一旦結冰，路況就變得十分危險。)