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Post by flamingGalah on Dec 19, 2018 13:28:58 GMT -5
A couple of photos taken yesterday of Bugibba Square on the seafront (though it is actually round in shape). Was very windy, hence the windswept palms, the lights wrapped around them are about as festive as it gets here.  Just off the "square" is Boom Boom Street, not its actual name but it reminds me of a street in Majorca that we also named Boom Boom Street...  Some more festive palm trees I saw this evening...  And an (out of focus) Poinsettia that knows it is Christmas...  |
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Post by rozenn on Dec 19, 2018 14:19:39 GMT -5
Just off the "square" is Boom Boom Street, not its actual name but it reminds me of a street in Majorca that we also named Boom Boom Street... Oh, that reminds me of my former town! There was a Boom Boom Street there as well. Rode my bike out of the city today. Not ideal weather for bike riding, but I gotta train my cardio and can't run for the moment.    This farm has seen better days.   Large monkey puzzle tree  The sun is peeking through the clouds!    Loads of silos near the train station  |
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Post by Nidaros on Dec 19, 2018 15:31:27 GMT -5
Few phone images today. Not impressive quality images, but thought it might be interesting for you to see these areas so far north at the darkest days of the year.
A peek out at Bodø
Going to land in Tromsø
Above Tromsø
On the ground in Tromsø. Near noon on Dec 19th. looking WNW.
On the ground in Tromsø looking SSW towards the place where the sun is below the horizon. Near noon on Dec 19th. |
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Dec 20, 2018 1:39:42 GMT -5
^beautiful!
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Post by Nidaros on Dec 21, 2018 14:09:59 GMT -5
From this far northern land... a mere 3 degrees south of the Arctic Circle...
cultivated through bronze-, iron- and viking age... on the darkest day of the year... since ancient days the time of the large Yule festival...
facing the low sun at 13:45 on Dec 21th
Nearby but now facing north
Lade in Trondheim, or should I say Nidaros to keep to the historic theme
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Post by nei on Dec 21, 2018 18:37:39 GMT -5
/div] In cold periods, it is pretty common with snow on the ground even down to sea level. Even if our avg high (1.3C/34F in Jan using 81-2010) is above freezing all year, our weather is characterized by weather patterns that often last some time. So for 10 days straight in winter the avg high might be -2C to -6C, and the next 10 days might have avg high 4C to 8C.
Right now it's mostly no snow near sea level, but at this built up area in the photos at 120 m asl and a little from the fjord there are ca 5-8 cm snow cover.
Warm periods in winter will be warmer at sea level, cold periods colder further from the sea level. It also falls down more precipitation in the hills, especially west of the city (Bymarka/City hills).
So the snow cover period at the highest built-up areas on the western part (ca 200 m ASL) will be much longer than down at sea level. There can be green lawns in Apr near sea level and 20 cm snow cover at the highest built up areas. At our airport, near sea level but not in the city, a little older data gave 14 days/winter with at least 25 cm snow cover. Using the 71-2000 base period, much of the city will have 25-50 days with at least 5 cm snow cover, and 50-100 days at the highest built-up areas. Less now than in those years.
ah, Trondheim is colder than I thought; for some reason I thought its daily mean in January was above freezing. Assumed it was more like Bergen, maybe I've thought Bergen is a typical non-arctic Norwegian climate when it's unusually mild in winter. How much sunnier is Trondheim than Bergen? |
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Post by Babu on Dec 21, 2018 19:00:40 GMT -5
/div] In cold periods, it is pretty common with snow on the ground even down to sea level. Even if our avg high (1.3C/34F in Jan using 81-2010) is above freezing all year, our weather is characterized by weather patterns that often last some time. So for 10 days straight in winter the avg high might be -2C to -6C, and the next 10 days might have avg high 4C to 8C.
Right now it's mostly no snow near sea level, but at this built up area in the photos at 120 m asl and a little from the fjord there are ca 5-8 cm snow cover.
Warm periods in winter will be warmer at sea level, cold periods colder further from the sea level. It also falls down more precipitation in the hills, especially west of the city (Bymarka/City hills).
So the snow cover period at the highest built-up areas on the western part (ca 200 m ASL) will be much longer than down at sea level. There can be green lawns in Apr near sea level and 20 cm snow cover at the highest built up areas. At our airport, near sea level but not in the city, a little older data gave 14 days/winter with at least 25 cm snow cover. Using the 71-2000 base period, much of the city will have 25-50 days with at least 5 cm snow cover, and 50-100 days at the highest built-up areas. Less now than in those years.
ah, Trondheim is colder than I thought; for some reason I thought its daily mean in January was above freezing. Assumed it was more like Bergen, maybe I've thought Bergen is a typical non-arctic Norwegian climate when it's unusually mild in winter. How much sunnier is Trondheim than Bergen? Their normals aren't that much higher: mid 1300's for 61-90. According to Nidaros it's very poorly placed. The new one has averaged like 1600h since it opened in 2016, but it's been pretty sunny the last few years in Scandinavia. It's possible Trondheim averages sunshine in the 1500's like a lot of England. |
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Post by Nidaros on Dec 22, 2018 5:08:07 GMT -5
ah, Trondheim is colder than I thought; for some reason I thought its daily mean in January was above freezing. Assumed it was more like Bergen, maybe I've thought Bergen is a typical non-arctic Norwegian climate when it's unusually mild in winter. How much sunnier is Trondheim than Bergen? Their normals aren't that much higher: mid 1300's for 61-90. According to Nidaros it's very poorly placed. The new one has averaged like 1600h since it opened in 2016, but it's been pretty sunny the last few years in Scandinavia. It's possible Trondheim averages sunshine in the 1500's like a lot of England. The old sunhrs data was based on many years at Voll, placed just north of a hill only a stonethrow away, and the terrain also rises towards east. I've posted pictures of this. Don't know yet if Trondheim is sunnier than Bergen. Bergen is certainly rainer...
This year, despite a poor June and mediocre Aug here (in contrast to southernmost Norway), we have surpassed 1700 sunhrs, corresponding to ca 1900 US sunhrs.
Bergen will get ca 1750 sunnhrs this year. Oslo a little over 2100, which is a record.
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Post by Hiromant on Dec 22, 2018 5:22:53 GMT -5
Solar noon on the solstice. -10°C.  |
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Post by urania93 on Dec 22, 2018 5:36:06 GMT -5
Some other pictures from the week. Basically we had all the possible winter weathers within a couple of days, so in this regard the week has been quite interesting. In Wednesday we had some snow, not in impressive amounts but still funny enough. I managed to take a picture in the evening while returning back home (darkness + picture taken from the car = bad quality), while in the following day I asked my sister to take a couple of pictures during the morning.  ^ very very bad picture, and this is the best one I managed to take. How shameful...   Yesterday instead the weather was more interesting in Turin. In the morning it was definitively cold (for us, it was about -2°C close to my workplace), foggy and with a quite impressive frost on the ground. Not the best weather for walking around, for me.   Returning back to my place, until the middle of the last night we still had a couple of cm of snow on the ground, which was making us hoping for a white Xmas. Instead foehn wind kicked in, the temperature rose suddenly at 15+°C and the most of the snow was gone in few hours. This is the view from the village today:  ^ the white part around the mountain top on the left looks like a real cloud, while the one around the peak on the right is actually snow moved by the wind. |
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Post by Hlidskjalf on Dec 22, 2018 6:29:20 GMT -5
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Post by Hlidskjalf on Dec 22, 2018 6:45:56 GMT -5
 Taken just now at 12.45. |
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Post by Hiromant on Dec 23, 2018 7:32:09 GMT -5
A friend sent me this from near Võru in the south. Looks like a proper winter wonderland.  |
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Post by Hlidskjalf on Dec 23, 2018 11:49:16 GMT -5
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Post by ral31 on Dec 23, 2018 15:39:58 GMT -5
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Post by Ariete on Dec 24, 2018 5:30:14 GMT -5
Merry Christmas!
Handsome Noël atmosphere with ensoleillement at my Dad's:
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Post by Babu on Dec 24, 2018 5:55:08 GMT -5
Merry Christmas everybody   Pretty pretty Christmas Eve day in Tavelsjö  Sadly most trees in Tavelsjö have lost their snow. The stretch between Umeå and Tavelsjö was incredibly snowy; I think there was some snowfall there yesterday, but some snow can still be found on branches in Tavelsjö too.  Ensoileillement   Boring photos of doge He was happy being back at his family's place, playing in the snow. He is floof   He took the polar bear's mitten  This is kinda interesting how the snow gets shaped by the pyre  |
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Post by Babu on Dec 24, 2018 6:24:49 GMT -5
I'm terribly sorry but I went out at noon again because it was still pretty, so here's another dump. This is right at noon on Christmas Eve. The sun is stronger than in Thailand. I sweated instantly in the -10'C 2.8° sun in nothing but a Christmas sweater.   About 30m long shadow. Difficult to judge distance in the picture though. Could be more.  Pretty nice view. Snow-on-tree line seems to be pretty close to the hill base.  Who would want to live in this house with these views? I'd assume it to cost about 350-450k$. Powerlines ruin the view a little bit though.  |
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Post by Hlidskjalf on Dec 24, 2018 6:41:07 GMT -5
Rather gloomy outside today. Let's hope the predictions about warm weather and 8c will be correct. Anyways, merry Christmas, happy yule and io Saturnalia, Ladies and snowflakes!  |
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Post by Moron on Dec 24, 2018 8:33:26 GMT -5
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