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Post by Babu on Jan 12, 2018 3:14:18 GMT -5
We just keep getting beautiful sunrises. This is what, the fifth in a row? (One I didn't post) And two clear nights (and days) in a row have really started to build up some frost.
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Post by Babu on Jan 12, 2018 9:51:06 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to keep either boxwood or ivy outside in the winters up here. They seem okay though, or at least the ivy looks healthy, even though it was -16'C to -18'C yesterday.
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Post by nei on Jan 12, 2018 9:52:07 GMT -5
And two clear nights (and days) in a row have really started to build up some frost. that's frost on the trees?!
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Post by Babu on Jan 12, 2018 9:53:17 GMT -5
And two clear nights (and days) in a row have really started to build up some frost. that's frost on the trees?! Yeah. Tavelsjö gets silly amounts of frost. The city rarely get any frost whatsoever, and if it does, it's normally pretty tame. In October, and November, Tavelsjö can often look like everything's coveree with snow when in reality it's just 3mm thick frost on the ground and vegetation.
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Post by nei on Jan 12, 2018 9:58:01 GMT -5
Yeah. Tavelsjö gets silly amounts of frost. The city rarely get any frost whatsoever, and if it does, it's normally pretty tame. In October, and November, Tavelsjö can often look like everything's coveree with snow when in reality it's just 3mm thick frost on the ground and vegetation. I wonder what controls how thick the frost is? Our thickest frost is generally in late autumn. Winter is usually too cold for frost if that makes any sense.
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Post by Babu on Jan 12, 2018 10:03:29 GMT -5
Yeah. Tavelsjö gets silly amounts of frost. The city rarely get any frost whatsoever, and if it does, it's normally pretty tame. In October, and November, Tavelsjö can often look like everything's coveree with snow when in reality it's just 3mm thick frost on the ground and vegetation. I wonder what controls how thick the frost is? Our thickest frost is generally in late autumn. Winter is usually too cold for frost if that makes any sense. Our relative humidity is pretty much always 100% or close to 100% regardless if it's 5'C or -20'C in the winter. That means whenever the sky is clear and surfaces radiate heat, they'll be colder than the air and will start accumulating frost. Since cold clear skies are always completely without wind here, and the sun is to weak to melt anything, streaks of clear skies will just keep accumulating frost basically.
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Post by Babu on Jan 12, 2018 10:30:52 GMT -5
Went out and took a close up of this littlefinger-nail thick apple tree branch. Hard to see without a reference point bjt the longest frost shards are close to half a centimeter long.
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Post by nei on Jan 12, 2018 11:03:47 GMT -5
Last day in southern Sweden. I'm going to miss seeing colors outside. I far prefer these kinds of fields over the boring dead (and covered by 70cm snow) fields up in Tavelsjö. Winter wonderland is wasted on you Honestly, you have near perfect weather for a beautiful snowy landscape, though you could use a bit more snow and sun. The southern Sweden landscape is kinda boring; lots of brown and bare trees, the worst in-between IMO. Though one field is green at least. Winter months with lots of days in the 40s are pleasant at least. This isn't bad looking (from Jan 2016) but this is still more photogenic
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Post by Babu on Jan 13, 2018 2:50:21 GMT -5
Oh my god. They don't stop coming!
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Post by Babu on Jan 13, 2018 4:09:08 GMT -5
I guess this is what you'd call a winter wonderland.
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Post by longaotian on Jan 13, 2018 4:27:33 GMT -5
I guess this is what you'd call a winter wonderland. These photos are stunning. Now I really wanna come up and visit Scandinavia in winter!
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Post by Hiromant on Jan 13, 2018 8:07:30 GMT -5
A beautiful sunny -11°C here, not much snow though.
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Post by Babu on Jan 13, 2018 9:14:25 GMT -5
I'd like to introduce you all to Tavelsjö. Tavelsjö is a quiet small town with not much happening except cold weather and frost, snow and occasional auroras. We've had -20'C temps here for four days in a row now with 5 days of clear skies, I'm fucking sick of it, but it makes for some impressive frost buildup. Since this is a Saturday and I'm not working, I figured I'd use the time to actually be able to go outside while it's still bright (actually it was because I have a stupid dog that needs to go outside even when it's frigid fucking -22'C). This was the first stop on the journey. A birch forest can be seen. The only good thing about birches is that their white bark and thin crow's-nesty twigs that look fucking terrible in the green season, at least looks pretty nice when they're covered with frost. Then I went out onto the titular Tavelsjö (Painting lake). Does it look like a painting lake should? I don't know. It's really nice because a family that lives here, completely on their own without any promise of anything in return, singlehandedly plow the ice to make a huge dozen mile long ice skating road every winter out of charity. Last winter Umeå municipality even started sending free buses from the city to the town to let people skate on the lake bringing a lot of "tourism". There were a bunch of people going about today too. I wouldn't want to though since it was 22 fucking degrees below the freezing point of sh it. I saw a guy whose hair was completely white from frost, with large pulps of ice hanging from his white eye lashes. Brrrr. Sadly couldn't take a picture of him. Then I got bored of walking on the ice and started slowly making my way to the church. Here's a snow mobile highway through the cold grove. If this isn't impressive amounts of frost then I don't know what is. Somewhere underneath all that snow (which is abut 70cm), there's supposed to be a creek. And then I stopped to take another picture of the sun. This was at one o'clock. You could actually see the sun through the wispy clouds. Slowly making my way to the church indeed. I've moved 10 meters from the last picture and in total 70 meters from the grove picture. No picture of the church. Just a picture of some white trees, especially that birch. Looking pretty neat. Maples aren't as impressive, at least not to the naked eye, but they did come out rather nicely on camera. I almost forgot to take a picture of the "view" from the church hill too. Had to run up the hill again. This is the eastern side of the town. I thought this birch looked pretty neat too. And I think Cambium's rhododendron are fine. These have to withstand the -40'C temps Tavelsjö is capable of managing, and they seem to be doing fine. And what do you know. While writing this I looked out the window and saw the sun was setting and the clouds, which can be seen in the distance in the "view" from the church, rolling in. Full resolution images:
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Post by Moron on Jan 13, 2018 9:21:08 GMT -5
Excellent photos Baba, good to see what northern sweden looks like in winter. Very alien landscape coming from an australian.
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Post by urania93 on Jan 13, 2018 10:31:07 GMT -5
Typical afternoon picture in here during the winter season, with the shadow of the mountain behind us covering the whole village.
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Post by Nidaros on Jan 13, 2018 13:07:21 GMT -5
Nacreous clouds high up in the stratosphere. Very cold up there to form these. I took this with my iphone camera exactly at 15:44 today, after sunset, looking west. Straight from the camera. A few cm snow on the ground.
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Post by longaotian on Jan 13, 2018 17:08:55 GMT -5
Home sweet home... Today was prettier than usual though. Full res: How could you not like going back to that?
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Post by longaotian on Jan 13, 2018 21:31:35 GMT -5
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Post by Steelernation on Jan 13, 2018 23:38:57 GMT -5
Nice pics. Where are those last 3 from?
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Post by Babu on Jan 14, 2018 4:38:37 GMT -5
Home sweet home... Today was prettier than usual though. Full res: How could you not like going back to that? It was an unfairly beautiful morning that I arrived to, but it was cold as hell and I hate the feeling of winter. In Stockholm it didn't feel like it was winter and I loved that.
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