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Post by Wildcat on Apr 6, 2019 16:04:25 GMT -5
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Post by Babu on Apr 6, 2019 20:03:51 GMT -5
Not much snow around within the city center. Mostly due to there being mostly pavement around there though.  Was 9'C today and mostly sunny, although the airport only got to 6.8'C. Pretty nice. Not windy either. Of course the Umeans are going to flock outside lol.  Swedes whenever the sun comes out.  Went along the riverside path.  This patch of flowers wasn't bloomed yet.  There were quite a few flowers along the path though. Not a huge amount yet though.  I almost forgot that the general snow depth is still like 10-25cm  Don't know what tree this is, kinda looks like beech or hornwood. Anyway its bud had burst and then died. I guess it could be from last fall though I suppose.  Morally superior Swedish mallards.  Cool ice  Some goat willow catkins look like they're about to turn yellow-green any day now (assuming good weather, not with the snowy weather we're forecast ofc).  Big difference in snow on the shady side and on the side with all the trees and bushes.  Neighbor's flowerbed.  Flowerbed in center not against wall. Not that my neighbor's flowerbed is against a wall.  No sign of dandelions quite yet. Maybe if they'd be against a wall, unlike these.  More typical snow cover. Haters gonna say it's still winter.   Don't know why there's a snow-free path. Very strange.  |
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Post by rozenn on Apr 7, 2019 5:01:15 GMT -5
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Post by Hiromant on Apr 9, 2019 13:26:49 GMT -5
There's still a lot of meltwater in lower areas and despite the drizzly 1°C November weather I can even see tiny buds around.  |
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Post by Babu on Apr 10, 2019 11:02:06 GMT -5
This was a pretty good day. Weather was cold (barely even above freezing) and windy, but it was sunny and instead of rotting in a basement I actually went outside today for a few hours. All the nearby snow stations are recording like 30cm of snow cover. Doesn't look like it's 30cm in Umeå.  Pine grove  Arguably more in other areas though.   Pretty huge (frozen) snow-melt pond. Ice thickness was a couple of centimeters, water depth was up to half a meter. If you ask me, these images look a lot nicer than the ones I take during peak winter. I'd assume these images are more typical of NE USA winters?  Bird cherry buds starting to show green.  Found a LOT of swans. About 100 swans in one place. Even though Umeå isn't even marked on the w ooper swan distribution map, 2017 saw a Europe record in Umeå with 6314 whooper swans in one place, and although I couldn't find a source, a friend who's a bird watcher said this year they'd seen around 5400. This is in another location, though. They're called song swans in Swedish. Pretty loud. Sat myself on a rock and enjoyed the music of the swans. Incredibly clear water. I assume it's because it's winter and it's been underneath ice protecting it from debris, and cold water cannot hold as much dirt as warm water can (cold tap water is clearer than warm tap water).  I was jumping around from ice block to ice block when I suddenly had the great idea to push one out into the flowing river and jump onto it.  To be honest, thinking about it now, it was pretty dangerous because the currents were pretty strong and if I'd fallen in, there'd be a risk of being pulled underneath the ice sheet. But my little iceberg felt very stable, and all I was thinking about was how I knew I'd crash into ice cover further ahead so I wouldn't drift endlessly. Managed to find solid ground (ice) and luckily I managed to get to a rock without falling through the ice. There I sat and enjoyed the sun while listening to podcasts. Very peaceful. No one around except swans and other spring birds. Found some hollow ice sheets too.  Then I had to make my way back to the back to my bike. I'd travelled a bit by ice raft after all.  |
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Post by rozenn on Apr 13, 2019 5:23:44 GMT -5
Ice drifting sounds fun. None of that ove here!  Soon the forests will be green.  |
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Post by Wildcat on Apr 14, 2019 14:36:53 GMT -5
Nice puffy cumulus on I-64 eastbound  |
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Post by Morningrise on Apr 15, 2019 19:13:11 GMT -5
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Apr 15, 2019 19:50:26 GMT -5
^that should help green everything up. May is usually still pretty brown there though right? Morningrise |
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Post by Babu on Apr 16, 2019 14:54:50 GMT -5
A few days ago I was biking along a path when suddenly my ears were filled with buzzing. Apparently there's a bee farm there.  Thiccest birch I've seen in Umeå  Imagine owning a dog (this meme was sponsored by basement dweller gang)  I think this was either the 12th or the 13th. First catkins starting to bloom.  There are bees flying around in the wild too, and not just in the bee farm. Also saw a bumblebee!  13th. Still not ice free on the river.   Anemones! I didn't know these were April flowers in Umeå.  tHiS dAnDeLiOn Is NoT aGaInSt A wAlL!  Neither are the leaves on this shrub.  Hornbeam buds kinda opening up in some way. Probably just pollen stuff and nothing to do with leaves.  Wild bird cherry on the same day (13th)  City center almost snow free on the 13th, but because of all the buildings, the lack of wind kinda counteracts the UHI a little.   *read in Attenborough voice* The Umean is a curious creature.  4km from city center yesterday.  2km from city center yesterday  This wall isn't in the best state.  Sunset lined up pretty nicely with this street that day. This was at 19:55   Today I went and visited the fields that mark the end of the city in the west. They were completely without snow cover. Still some snow closer to the tree line because of shelter from the wind and sun, but that's to be expected.   Hundreds of birds on the other side of the freeway. Sorry for the out of focus image xd  A field by the river where I live 2km from the center on the 13th vs today.   |
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Post by Nidaros on Apr 16, 2019 16:07:09 GMT -5
Røros mountain plateau area a few days ago
Up to this rounded mountain top. Skiing on the tundra
This part of Røros make me think of somewhere in the high Arctic, maybe in early summer. Notice the moon in broad daylight, and the airplane crossing the sky.
Closer look
Imagine if it was permafrost on Røros how well preserved the bodies in these graves would be. But Røros is a few degrees too warm annually.
This butterfly has been woken by the spring sun, facing a very cold night. UNESCO Røros at 625 m ASL
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Post by Morningrise on Apr 16, 2019 18:42:28 GMT -5
^that should help green everything up. May is usually still pretty brown there though right? Morningrise May is actually mostly green. April is super brown/yellow and then in late April/early May the grass starts to turn green, and in early/mid May the leaves come out. Varies a bit from year-to-year, but that's a pretty typical pattern. Early May can be brownish sometimes but the second half of the month is always solidly green. |
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Apr 17, 2019 0:01:23 GMT -5
^that should help green everything up. May is usually still pretty brown there though right? Morningrise May is actually mostly green. April is super brown/yellow and then in late April/early May the grass starts to turn green, and in early/mid May the leaves come out. Varies a bit from year-to-year, but that's a pretty typical pattern. Early May can be brownish sometimes but the second half of the month is always solidly green. Makes sense. The streeviews I've seen in Saskatoon must've been in the early part of May then. |
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Post by Morningrise on Apr 18, 2019 8:04:58 GMT -5
May is actually mostly green. April is super brown/yellow and then in late April/early May the grass starts to turn green, and in early/mid May the leaves come out. Varies a bit from year-to-year, but that's a pretty typical pattern. Early May can be brownish sometimes but the second half of the month is always solidly green. Makes sense. The streeviews I've seen in Saskatoon must've been in the early part of May then. Yeah, I see some of the May 2014 pictures are very brown. Those definitely would've been taken within the first week of the month, even mid-way through the month on a bad year it'll usually be greener than that. That's more what April typically looks like. |
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Post by urania93 on Apr 20, 2019 4:54:56 GMT -5
Since when I moved to Grenoble I nearly didn't post a single picture... anyway, here there are some pictures from the last couple of weeks: General touristic pictures:      ^ the all of these were taken 2-3 weeks ago, now the place looks much greener than this. New view from my place:  ^ also notice the fabulous shadow of the mountain during the sunset. This is definitively one of those places where mountains can make days shorter. As I hinted somewhere, at the beginning of April there was a very little snowfall between Apr 3rd and 4th:  ^evening of Apr 3rd  ^ morning of Apr 4th  ^ afternoon of Apr 4th  ^ cloudy evening of "I don't remember which day". |
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Post by nei on Apr 20, 2019 9:59:51 GMT -5
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Post by nei on Apr 20, 2019 10:05:20 GMT -5
in NYC, April 8-10. Sunset from Prospect Park  blooming street trees  budding bushes  Skyscrapers make easy to estimate cloud height. One World Trade Center is in that view. Cloud height just over 800 feet?  Prospect Park West. Chuck Schumer's (senate minority leader) home is about half a mile further along. His wife went to a lot of effort to oppose the bike lane.  still rather bare in the park  In Manhattan. Fanciest looking, or at least most ornate Marshall's & TJMaxx (discount clothing chain) in the country?  One World Trade Center not in the clouds   UHI helping leaf out |
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Post by ral31 on Apr 20, 2019 10:13:21 GMT -5
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Post by nei on Apr 20, 2019 10:39:10 GMT -5
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Post by rozenn on Apr 21, 2019 13:09:47 GMT -5
Just had our first proper rain of the season/year this afternoon. Clouds looked quite stormy but I didn't see any lightning or hear any thunder. Nice! I imagine that the first proper rain would be one of the highlights of the year if I lived in a climate with an annual mean close to 0°C.  Pics from a botanical park on the Normandy coast near Dieppe:   Wisteria already!   Some trees are leafed out:  Others are budding:  Now that's an attractive place to lounge on a bench:    Small church hasn't burned down:  Thatched roofed-homes have iris bulbs on top in Normandy:  Timeless contryside scene  This reminds me of the road with the Nazgûl in the first LOTR film:  A valleuse is a short valley that leads down to the sea. They're the only way to reach the sea through the 150 km-long wall of white cliffs between Le Havre and Picardy.  Further up the valleuse Neat farm     Sunset on the cliffs 
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