2018 NH Spring / SH Autumn Photo Thread

how warm was that toilet-duck water rozenn ?

This week has been quite busy, but I've managed to take a couple of pictures while going to the university anyway.

During this week rainy and sunny days alternated a lot, but all these pictures are taken in sunny days (mostly because I can't see much from the train window when it rains). 
This time I managed to take some pictures more or less of the same spots, but in days with a different snowline altitude. In this period of the year it changes quite a lot day by day!

Note: these first pictures are all taken from a moving train, that's why the closest objects look so blurry. The train window didn't improve the quality neither. 

3/14/18 


3/16/18 

^ there was also a slight frost on the ground yesterday morning.





3/14/18  


3/16/18  


(with the last two pictures I managed to take a picture from nearly the same point, and I was on the train!)


3/14/18  


3/16/18  



Extra pictures around Susa yesterday: 


^ sunrise is quite weird around here, one side of the valley is already in full light while the other is still really dark. Anyway, the point of the picture was to show that some trees around here are starting to blossom.


^ Sunrise just next to the train station of Susa, looking west. Down in the square it was still quite dark, while the rock above the city and the mountain behind it were fully illuminated already.

Extra picture from Turin in Wednesday morning:

^ this picture was taken just next to the main train station of Turin, so practically in the city center. The sky was so blue because foehn wind blown for the most of the previous day, so humidity was much lower than usual. Arcades like those all along the streets are quite the norm in that part of the city instead.

The snow line can be anywhere between 800 m and 1500 m (more or less). During rainy days the temperature is relatively cool and it usually snow down to quite low altitudes, but sunny days are already warm enough to melt it quickly (obviously the highest you go the slowest the melting is). The difference between the two snow lines in the pictures is that the first day was just after a couple of really sunny and warm days, while the second day was just after a really rainy day. In this period it wouldn't be exceptional to see snow at the bottom of the valley neither, but it never last long. We also have a saying for this: "neve marzolina, dura dalla sera alla mattina" = "March snow, it lasts from evening till morning". 

This website says it averaged 24.5°C last June:
www.cabaigne.net/france/provence-alpes-c-te-d-azur/saint-tropez/


France is no Thailand, that's for sure. Not sure I'd enjoy bathtub waters though.



Pics from yesterday.





This must be the wettest snow ever recorded in the history of mankind.





Notice the yellow flowers on the tree to the right:




Next time you'll wait a bit:







Buds about to blossom to the left:







Pathways are a mess:





Failed attmpt at building a snowman?

Great pics everyone. Fun seeing pics from Thailand. Nice pink glow. 

Your wet snow rozenn reminds me of snow I saw in Ithaca late April 2012; posted photos of it on CityData. First 2-3 inches melted upon hitting the ground so the snow wasn't very snow-like. some weird photos of flowers with snow



nice snowy woods there; what train was it?

Lot's of low and turbolent clouds today. This morning the "clouds" were so low to actually be below my home altitude, so it was more like entering a thick fog from above (unfortunately I didn't manage to photograph it, because I was going to miss the train and I hadn't not even a spare minute). 

Anyway, from the train I had plenty of time for trying to take some pictures. Seeing the real thing was quite different, it was mixing up quite a lot and that "rising fog/low clouds" were really close to us.







About one half of the train ride was "inside the fog" instead, but I didn't take pictures because the visibility was really low.


Once in Turin, looking west (i.e. towards the mountains) the view was this one:



And less than two hours later the sky was already like this:


(^that's the view from my workplace, which is actually an happier place than what this picture suggests)

In the late afternoon, still in Turin, the sky looked like this:



rotating by 180°




Returning back in my valley (nearly at sunset time)




Clouds like these are not so rare in here, but usually is a transient situation between rainy and sunny weather. It is actually quite uncommon to see it last all over the day and over such a large distance. 

Beautiful cardinal right out my window.