2017-18 NH Winter / SH Summer Photo Thread

I don't know why but I find the dead trees in the water kinda funny. Like those colors though!

Turin doesn't quite give the impression of being "uno paradiso mediterraneo" this time of the year

I've seen heavy fog when I was younger and watching football in places like Piacenza, Parma and Verona too though so I assume it's a Northern Italy-wide phenomenon?

Getting fog right in a picture is difficult at times so you've done well there

There are some mediterranean paradises inland too, especially in Calfornia and Oregon and not in Europe admittedly

Clearlake (CA) for example!



No, didn't see that! I'm amazed they managed to play in that weather I've hardly ever seen fog that bad here and this is a place that averages around 85-90 % humidity in winter!

That being said, would you say Liguria's coastline is a mediterranean paradise or is it too maritime in terms of winds and summer downpours for that?

When talking about "paradiso mediterraneo" I was more thinking about a cool place on the coast of the Mediterranean sea than about a place with a mediterranean climate, because that's the most common meaning we give to the adjective "mediterraneo".

So Liguria definitively falls in the "Mediterranean places" category to me (well, al least the coastline, the inland is quite mountainous). I'm not sure about the paradise part instead, there are a couple of really cool places but it tends to be too crowded for enjoying the scenery. 
Also the vegetation along the coast is really mediterranean looking (but surely it is much greener than in Sicily for example). 

As for the fog instead, during that football match it was thick enough to cause some troubles to the players, but it was not that thick in absolute terms. The Po plain during the winter season tends to have long periods of stable weather, in which air stratifies because of thermal inversion phenomena. The cold air layer on the bottom of the Po plain is extremely prone to the formation of a lot of fog, often it is even visible from the satellite. For example, here there is the sat picture of Monday morning.
Furthermore, this thin layer of cold air is also really prone to the accumulation of air pollutants. Considering that the Po plain is also the area with the highest population and industrial density of the country, it is thus not surprising to see that the pollution levels tend to be quite high (real time pollution map of Europe)

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Today Feb 3. in Trondheim
This year we have had a real winter, with snow on the ground for most of winter so far
Even ice and snow on the ground down by the fjord.
Days are getting a little longer, dark from ca 17 in the afternoon,




Two divers in the fjord, seems very cold now


This is some km away from the fjord at ca 130 m asl

Completely sunny day today, with a little frost on the trees.



Lovely view out the window. This is definitely a shot no dedicated camera would be able to take.


Went out on the lake. It was bloody bright. And you could actually slightly feel the sun on your cheek (and my black skinny jeans).


There was some extremely creepy frost formation on the ice. Looked like some gross alien web.


There were, I kid you not, fucking three centimeter wide frost crystals on the ground.


I don't know why but for some reason the last two days have seen sunsets similar to those you'll find in Greece in summer where the sky turns orange, red and pink even without clouds. Must be ice crystals or something in the air.

Here's a couple of videos I took since the pictures didn't really capture the snow.

Very nice pictures! Is that a park that's underwater? Also looks like there's some building going on with those cranes.