2021 NH Spring/SH Fall Photo Thread (spoilers please!)

Furnace Creek Visitor Center's thermometer (somewhat overexposed, main weather station was 95°F as of 3 PM):



Badwater Basin:













Artists Palette:









Went to Mesquite Flats Sand Dunes. Actually felt comfy with a decent breeze and the low late afternoon sun at the time:





















Waited about two hours until sunset:

Was able to capture pupfish in camera (zoom in to have a better look)





Encountered a desert horned lizard:











We then went up to Dantes View—kinda hazy below:

Went out a bit west to Darwin Falls Trl., was somewhat lush near the waterfall. About 2,500 feet elevation:



























BONUS: Sunrise shining through cirrus clouds from near Stovepipe Wells Campground, which is where I camped for two nights. On April 25th:

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May 12th

What do you think of this student housing area and the style of the apartment buildings? (It's set on a piney hill right next to uni)



This was the first actually warm day of the year, with temps "soaring" to 18.6'C by 11.00 already. Even early in the day, before noon, small birch leaves had already started popping out enough for some obvious green shimmering to be visible from quite afar. Not at all as easily visible in this photo over the central suburbs though.


Some maples had started budding.


These birches looked a lot greener to my eye, idk


Went on a long walk with a friend along the river.


Found a nice and relatively newly built platform for swinging into the river.


And lots of strange holes in the ground like this one.


Spindly trees and muddy ground.


Nice view over the river. Seemed farily hazy compared to usual. Very rapid blue-shift.


A tree that must've fell sometime this winter, nearly onto someone's yard. Baffling how no one has decided to move it yet.


Very large snow piles.


Then went, with another friend, through the woody section where I live officially named "The island mountain".



You've all seen this before, probably many times, but I can't stop goshing over how nice it looks in this forest. Normally pine and spruce forests are so dark and shady that they just don't look very nice, but because this forest is pretty narrow, it lets in a ton of light that a normal conifer forest wouldn't let in, making it so that there's always really nice lighting coming in from the sides.


It's unusual to see such untouched and "ancient" looking forests with so much sunlight shining into it, is what I'm trying to say.



In Swedish nomenclature, exposed rock = mountain (de facto)


We also found an extremely chill hare. They're normally a lot shier than this one and are very prone to dashing away immediately upon noticing people. This one was just chilling for the entire 10 minutes we observed it, not even caring that people on bikes were going along the street in the back of the image.


The ozone layer was unusually thin, and I was out from 11-16. Despite the 45 degre maximum sun angle, I managed to get the most blatant and "clean" sunburn in my life around my neck.



May 13th, the second warm day. At 12pm there was already a huge difference compared to the day before.


Me and my friends sunbathed on a balcony all day, then eventually moved onto greener pastures so to speak, sitting on the grass fields next to the river, going to the "island mountain" etc. I did feel like things were noticably greener in the evening compared to earlier during the day. The high was 23.6'C. Pretty much every single planted birch tree in the central suburbs were green to some degree.



May 14th: Perfect illustration of how tree flowers and tree leaves have wildly different requirements for blooming. In Stockholm for example (and the rest of the world for that matter), cherry trees tend to bloom a few weeks before the trees start getting leaves. These are some form of cherry tree, that had just started to prepare its blossom on the 14th, meanwhile most other trees nearby were pretty green.


And here was a crabapple tree starting to get leaves, but with no signs of flowers. Aren't crabapples and apple trees in general known to blossom early in the spring before any trees have any leaves?


And lastly a couple pics from today, May 16th. Still lots of snow piles everywhere.


It's more green than not now, at least in my opinion. Haven't progressed that much in the last couple of days though since it really was only May 12th and 13th that saw any kind of warmth. The days since then have all been relatively cool. Those cherry(?) trees still haven't started to blossom properly for example.


Was extremely hazy! Never seen anything like it in Umeå, not at ground level. Looking at observations, the temperature had just dropped extremely rapidly. AP was 10.4'C at 17.00 and 7.4'C at 18.00, so the RH had rapidly risen to 90% or higher. The image was taken at 18.22. 


This is what the plummet looked like at the Uni station.