2017-18 NH Winter / SH Summer Photo Thread

Deciduous trees are pretty bare now, though feels spring-like this afternoon with temp in the 70's.

I hate how clean the air is in northern Sweden. Even in the city. This is what a clear sky looks like here when the sun is 0.1° below the horizon. Boke! 🤮


And these are at similar sun angles in Greece.



For us to have any kind of sunset, we need to have clouds as close to the horizon as possible without actually touching the horizon.
Like this morning we had a decent one purely thanks to the clouds (sun angle about -1°)


Especially around the solstices one positive is that the sun stays between -2 and 2° for like 6 hours

No. And lol, I didn't know it but as I looked up what the highest building in Umeå is, I found out that's the one (in the last picture). It's only 52m. It's even the tallest in the entirety of Norrland (which is like 75% of Sweden)

US doesn't do residential high rises outside of bigger cities. That image of the Umeå high rises remind me of Canada.

In Sweden, yes.

This was right before the noon.


This was right at the noon 40 minutes later. I noticed that it was a little hazy which is odd and unheard of at this time of the year.


Then, I kid you not, not even 15 minutes later it looked like this and was snowing. What kind of Texan changeability is this?


And an overcast sky with sunshine like this probably isn't very common where you live.


High res

Today was a sunny Christmas Eve. I wonder when the last time that happened was. Still, the sun isn't very strong. This was just before noon and I counted my shadow as being about 38 meters.


Dog.


Barely makes it over the horizon. Also note how lame the sky looks compares to for example in Greece. Barely any color shift at all.


This was pretty cool. So it was really windy yesterday, and so these footsteps pressurized the snow enough so that they wouldn't blow away in the wind, which has made them protrude. I actually think they're deer tracks too. Looks pretty weird with the horizontal sunlight.


Speaking of deer tracks...


Anyone want to sit down and take a fika?


I feel like it's been a while since I've seen so strong colors. Overcast winter days are pretty much black and white. You can even almost see that the pines are green!


I don't know if these roses are wild or not. They almost have a tree-like shape though. Weird.


This apple tree has got its apples left even though this seems to have been the windiest last quarter of a year in a long time.


Christmas dog.



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Few more pics from a cloudy -5C morning in Central Park:





Campus covered in snow:



And here's a strange cloud pattern I saw back on Feb 20th back in Austin (it's not winter 2017-18 but whatever). Anyone know what these are? Temp was 20C:

Sunny and (surprising) still quite white Xmas in here today.




This is the second time in my whole life that I see snow resist on the ground at my altitude (about 650 m) for so long, for us it is quite remarkable.