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Post by Wildcat on May 13, 2019 14:06:49 GMT -5
Interesting clouds this afternoon. Almost mammatus-like.  |
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Post by Morningrise on May 13, 2019 21:54:28 GMT -5
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Post by Babu on May 14, 2019 1:16:22 GMT -5
I remember Edmonton had us beat by at least a week last year, but this time we even beat Saskatoon by a week or two it seems.
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Post by Babu on May 15, 2019 9:35:48 GMT -5
In normal climates, cherries blooming is the first thing to happen to trees pretty much, and cherries normally bloom before any trees are leafed out. Well not in Umeå. Cherry trees started getting their first flowers on the 12th-13th lol. This is at 04:30 on the 14th.  Had to wake up at 2:am this morning. Meant I got to see the sunrise.  It's been slightly above average since the images I uploaded last time, and the fact that the majority of all wild birches are green now makes a lot of difference for the overall greenness.  The bird cherry forests where I live are starting to look like they could be taken in June.   A problem is that bird cherries would be blooming if it were actually June. But if you don't know the species you could definitely be mistaken for thinking the above shots were taken in June. Maybe not this one since it's showing some bare trees (although tbh, Aspen can still be bare in early June). We've had quite a lot of rain this May, maybe 20mm, but some fields are still looking pretty dry lol.  |
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on May 15, 2019 20:24:47 GMT -5
ahhh, Umeå --- land of gorgeous sunsets/rises year-round. Do you even sleep Babu ? Few nights ago you were an uncouth Swedish youth climbing random ladders on the side of apartment buildings at 2am and just today you were a responsible Swedish youth waking at 2am, presumably going to his job...  |
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Post by Babu on May 16, 2019 3:23:50 GMT -5
ahhh, Umeå --- land of gorgeous sunsets/rises year-round. Do you even sleep Babu ? Few nights ago you were an uncouth Swedish youth climbing random ladders on the side of apartment buildings at 2am and just today you were a responsible Swedish youth waking at 2am, presumably going to his job... Well, I got an average of 5 hours of sleep this week. The schedule is set up so that you'll work evenings one week followed by mornings the next and so on. Kinda crappy but yeah |
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Post by nei on May 16, 2019 22:39:30 GMT -5
traveling today. Long Island shore; can see convective cumulus on the horizon. Finally a summery sky.  train followed the Connecticut River just south of Springfield  couple more train shots by Holyoke, MA   evening bike ride up into the hills above Northampton  nice pond, but really buggy  my bike, some trees had leaves just coming out  appears to be a beaver dam on the side of the pond  great dirt road keeps going through the forest. Bike speed whisks away the bugs. Flowering trees are out   Firetower view. at 1700 feet. was 30-40 minutes before sunset. lot of bare trees  full moon out. forest looks endless  was much faster going back. sunset going down    dusk most of the way back  how does the leaf progress compare to yours Babu Morningrise |
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Post by Babu on May 17, 2019 3:49:37 GMT -5
It's ahead, but it's difficult to answer because obviously our woods consist of very different trees. The trees we have here would probably bloom much earlier in Northampton, and I'm sure your tree composition would be really bare here.
However, if we just compare how bare our forests look, it's a lot closer. A heatwave has also just started which should change things a lot in the coming couple of days.
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Post by Morningrise on May 17, 2019 10:44:25 GMT -5
That's definitely further ahead than ours, though we are starting to catch up as the leaves are getting noticeably bigger every day.
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Post by Nidaros on May 17, 2019 13:47:39 GMT -5
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Post by Babu on May 17, 2019 14:29:10 GMT -5
Was syttende mai greener in 2018? |
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Post by Nidaros on May 17, 2019 15:15:10 GMT -5
Was syttende mai greener in 2018? Maybe, not sure as I was abroad that time last year. This was May 12th 2018:
Chestnut was flowering May 24th last year |
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Post by Babu on May 17, 2019 15:18:25 GMT -5
Chestnuts have barely even had their leaves fully unravel yet here lol
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Post by Nidaros on May 17, 2019 15:42:46 GMT -5
Chestnuts have barely even had their leaves fully unravel yet here lol Flowering chestnut at May 24th is not average here though, remember May last year was very warm. |
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Post by Babu on May 17, 2019 16:18:13 GMT -5
Chestnuts have barely even had their leaves fully unravel yet here lol Flowering chestnut at May 24th is not average here though, remember May last year was very warm. Yeah, April too, right? On the other hand, March was freezing, but yeah, I know it was positively anomalous. |
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Post by Nidaros on May 17, 2019 16:21:42 GMT -5
April 2018 was pretty avg, only 0.6C above 1986-2015 avg. And March 18 was indeed freezing cold.
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Post by Babu on May 17, 2019 16:56:03 GMT -5
Yesterday I went to the Arboretum and rapids just west of Umeå. Snow pile on someone's yard.  Bridge  View from bridge: When there weren't any aspen in view it looked pretty green.  16.6'C high at the airport that day. Felt just on the border of being summer, with all the green trees and warmth and sunshine. Took off my jacket for the day right after I took this picture pretty much. Summer makes Baba a happy boi  For some reason, the river is lower than I think I've ever seen it. This is supposed to be a rapid lol.  Up at the head of the rapids. Ironically it's the south-facing slope that looks the most bare just because that side has a bunch of Aspen.  The solid rock ground has been shaped funnily by the water. There are a bunch of natural legit pools. We've bathed there many times, last time being last September in the middle of the night.  Thumbs up if your waters also look like piss and beer!  Katsura trees had small leaves as of then. Tbh this photo has no purpose really, because I didn't take a lot photos of trees since I'm going back there again tomorrow with my mates anyway lol.  That's got to be the most disgusting ground I've seen.  Crooked paths through the arboretum  Stupid bare aspen ruins the view. Although I suppose it'd have ruined the view even more if it was fully green  Found some snow/ice on my way home  And here are two shots from today. They're both taken from the same spot, and one is showing the right side of the road, and the other is showing the left. Summer:  Spring  |
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Post by urania93 on May 18, 2019 11:33:51 GMT -5
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Post by ral31 on May 18, 2019 13:12:26 GMT -5
Red River is pretty high at Alexandria right now.  Bottoms of trees submerged.  |
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Post by Babu on May 18, 2019 15:26:51 GMT -5
Warmest day of the year. Went back to the rapids, this time with company.  This shot looks a lot greener than two days ago. The birches that were kinda yellow and thinly leafed that time were completely leafed out this time.  We couldn't get over how empty the river was. This dam is supposed to be a dam filled with water, often overflowed.  Never been able to walk here before  We actually managed to cross over to the other side wtf. Think about that. We crossed the rapid. This is May. Shouldn't the water level still be elevated from a spring flood or something? Even in April during peak melting, the river was lower than usual (although quite a lot of water in the dams for whatever reason). Although I suppose the dams may have been closed the other times we've been here and that's why there was more water then. That makes sense too I guess.  Looks as if Linus is checking Benjamin's booty out  Benjamin found a rod and Linus a hole. He later proceeded to jam his rod into Linus' hole.  I found water. Fucking hell. I sat on my glasses totally wrecking them today. Had to bend them back into shape from scratch pretty much. They're not the same.  And we found an eel. Just a baby. 30-40cm  Pear tree blooming in the background. Bird cherry just started blooming in the foreground. This is the same cherry that got its leaves on the 22nd or 23rd. It literally took 4 weeks for it to start blooming. Last year the first bird cherries didn't get their leaves until around the 7th of May, yet they were already starting to bloom around the 14th. Ridiculous. It took just one week last year, and this year it took 4. That's how shit the start to May was this year.  Comparison shots: May 28th 2018  Sep 1st 2018:  Lol look at the flies in the sky  May 16th 2019: Notice all the rocks jutting up?  |
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