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Post by urania93 on Feb 12, 2019 12:31:19 GMT -5
Sunset from the university roof:   |
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Post by Babu on Feb 12, 2019 13:28:24 GMT -5
All my pictures look the same.   The moon always looks so tiny on phone cameras compared to your eye.  This guy lol  Snow sandwhich layers  |
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Post by Crunch41 on Feb 12, 2019 19:58:49 GMT -5
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Post by alphatier on Feb 15, 2019 1:10:26 GMT -5
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Feb 15, 2019 1:57:56 GMT -5
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Post by Morningrise on Feb 16, 2019 1:11:22 GMT -5
beautiful winter wonderland photos Morningrise . hard to tell that it's extremely frigid rather than merely frigid (like -15°C) except for the mist and steam off the river. How do you manage to take photos in that cold? Saskatoon looks like a decent city for its size, feel like similar American ones of the same age and size wouldn't look as good. Can't really compare to similar sized cities in America since I haven't been to any, but I can say that the older neighbourhoods of Saskatoon are really nice for the most part and the city has more amenities and interesting things to do than one might expect, considering its size. Unfortunately most of the city is just generic North American suburbia, which I'm really not a fan of, but the older neighbourhoods and riverside areas make it worthwhile. I took these all with my phone, just pulled off one glove to be able to take a few photos at a time and then put the phone away and glove back on, over and over throughout my walk. |
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Feb 16, 2019 1:39:58 GMT -5
beautiful winter wonderland photos Morningrise . hard to tell that it's extremely frigid rather than merely frigid (like -15°C) except for the mist and steam off the river. How do you manage to take photos in that cold? Saskatoon looks like a decent city for its size, feel like similar American ones of the same age and size wouldn't look as good. Can't really compare to similar sized cities in America since I haven't been to any, but I can say that the older neighbourhoods of Saskatoon are really nice for the most part and the city has more amenities and interesting things to do than one might expect, considering its size. Unfortunately most of the city is just generic North American suburbia, which I'm really not a fan of, but the older neighbourhoods and riverside areas make it worthwhile. I took these all with my phone, just pulled off one glove to be able to take a few photos at a time and then put the phone away and glove back on, over and over throughout my walk. I'm sure it's better than the hobo/rat-infested Lower Mainland (Gastown specifically).  |
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Post by Hiromant on Feb 16, 2019 7:03:14 GMT -5
A sunny 7°C in Viimsi, just east of Tallinn. Spring looks to have sprung. There's a lot more snow in Jüri though.  |
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Post by Nidaros on Feb 16, 2019 7:37:17 GMT -5
The first plants in my backyard, a little more sun with mild temps and the flowers will open |
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Post by urania93 on Feb 16, 2019 9:34:25 GMT -5
Be happy, it's springtime! Lots of flowers are starting to blossom, bees and even butterflies are flying everywhere etc... It looks like the first half of March.  ^ First of all, temperature chart for the closest weather station in the last 7 days (in °C). My place is about 100 m higher and less sunny than that, so let's say that in here it is about 1°C colder. Anyway, there wasn't any subzero temp for a while. Anyway, even if it was so warm, there is still some resilient snow resisting in the shadow spots.  ^ my garden thermometer today at 2 pm.   ^ snow and daisies are so close...  ^ also the snowline has risen a lot...  ^ some fruit tree blossoming (can't recognise them without the leaves)  ^ these are daffodils. Our grandparents are used to call them "March flowers", because in here they usually blossom in the first half of March.  ^ also the cat seems to be enjoying the weather and the sun. |
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Post by Babu on Feb 16, 2019 15:02:44 GMT -5
We've had three days in a row now with 7'C highs. This is what the ground at my apartment looks like. Slippery on the bike despite the gravel on the roads.  This looks disgusting on so many different levels. Ugh.  Ugh. Dirty dog.  The sky had a really strange hue of blue today. It was very dark but unsaturated blue (on the top of the photo).  This image is a mess, but it's meant to show the catkins bursting on this goat willow.  There were quite a few trees with bursting catkins.  I don't know why the snow has melted in this particular spot; the average snow depth is still at least 40cm. Surprisingly enough the grass is green though. Didn't expect that.  This lingonberry bush seems to have grown fresh leaves. I don't know if that's normal during winter or not.  |
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Post by Crunch41 on Feb 17, 2019 0:03:25 GMT -5
Babu is there a tunnel underneath that spot? Madison had steam tunnels underground, and the snow would melt very fast above the tunnels. A power line or an animal den would do the same. This is now the spring photo thread, with the plants showing up suddenly even very far north.
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Feb 19, 2019 0:43:02 GMT -5
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Post by Babu on Feb 19, 2019 18:08:22 GMT -5
We had a sunny sunday. Very nice weather. Sun's starting to warm your face too now, so the 3'C was very pleasant and springlike. I was amazed by how green the pines looked. Normally during winter, all "evergreen" conifer trees look möäore evergray and barely look green. I don't know if there's a different concentration of chlorophyl or just the cooler light during snow cover, idk. They've been remarkably vibrant recently anyway.  These willows have red twigs. Looks neat!  A tonne of mallards by this non-frozen creek.  Swedish mallards are morally superior to Australian ones.  Shovelled a roof for 9 hours. The camera really doesn't do justice to the sheer size of this clump of snow. Basically, this right here is what killed the dinosaurs.  We were supposed to shovel on this 20000m² roof for 2 weeks straight, but for some silly reason, they cancelled the contract, presumably due to melting and the continued warm forecast. But the roof isn't sloped, so there's not a lot of water run-off, and so despite the triple days of 7'C temps, the snow weight is practically the same. There's still an average snow depth of about 40cm, and it's wet snow. That's more snow weight than they ever get most years. Very stupid of them to cancel the contract. Btw, see the hills (called mountains in the Swedish language) in the distance? Umeå is hardly Kansas or New Mexico flat.  Went down town after work today. Noticed a ton of ground fog by the river (and the air around the central square was hazy).  Went and had a look.    The cinema  I lost my glove yesterday on my way to work, so I backtracked my way there. Unfortunately didn't find the glove which is a huge bummer, but I did find a pretty nice view over the western fields a kilometer away from my new apartment. Ground fog there too.  Sun was starting to set. Looked really neat.  |
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Post by rozenn on Feb 20, 2019 17:27:05 GMT -5
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Post by alex992 on Feb 20, 2019 18:01:45 GMT -5
"New Mexico flat" lol. Nice pics Baba, but that's a very wrong statement. New Mexico is mountainous as shit.
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Post by Babu on Feb 21, 2019 2:20:34 GMT -5
"New Mexico flat" lol. Nice pics Baba, but that's a very wrong statement. New Mexico is mountainous as shit. Yeah, New Mexico is like a beach with sandcastles. Most of the beach is dead flat, but there's also a bunch of sandcastles. Look at this. goo.gl/maps/CygL3rZrknC2There's not a single gradient within like 50km on either side, and then there's some mountain in the far distance. It's very black or white, either completely flat or completely steep mountain. Although I'll admit that looking at a terrain map, more of NM was mountains than I initially imagined in my head. |
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Post by alex992 on Feb 21, 2019 6:48:05 GMT -5
Yeah....you chose one random location in the state and tried to prove that it's flat lol. That portion of the state is flatter than like 70% of the state. New Mexico is very mountainous. The entire mid and west portion of the state is mountains, only eastern NM is flat. I'm not even sure where this notion that it's flat is coming from it's never been known for that. I like how you're trying to paint Umea out to be this hilly/mountainous place but think NM is flat  NM is far more mountainous than Umea is. |
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Post by Babu on Feb 21, 2019 6:56:12 GMT -5
Yeah....you chose one random location in the state and tried to prove that it's flat lol. That portion of the state is flatter than like 70% of the state. New Mexico is very mountainous. The entire mid and west portion of the state is mountains, only eastern NM is flat. I'm not even sure where this notion that it's flat is coming from it's never been known for that. I like how you're trying to paint Umea out to be this hilly/mountainous place but think NM is flat NM is far more mountainous than Umea is. NM is a lot more mountainous, but it's flat too. I'd say kentucky is less flat than NM, even though NM is more mountainous. |
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Post by alex992 on Feb 21, 2019 6:58:32 GMT -5
Here's a relief map of NM, Maybe 25-30% of the state is flat, the rest is mountains:  It doesn't kill you to just admit you're wrong. |
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At least the roads were not icy.
NM is far more mountainous than Umea is.