Thread: First snow of the season

Originally Posted by floffe

As I write this, the ground outside my window is mostly covered in white, fresh snow. The temperature is right around the freezing point, and I hope some of it will still be there tomorrow morning when I wake up. It makes the Swedish autumn/winter so much lighter and easy to bear, because the sun setting before 4pm isn't very fun otherwise.

How far has autumn come in other parts of the world (or spring, if you're on the other side)?

We had a nice cold day yesterday (about 8 degrees Centigrade), and the landscape looked like March when the snow thaws. Leaves are all yellow and mostly already on the ground. This morning it was much warmer, just like late March, but about early afternoon the rain started and it is still going very strong. They predicted some snowing in the mountains, but not here in the lowlands*.

We often do have some snow at about this time of the year, but that first snow doesn't last long (it just ends the flowering season of thistles) and then we have a dry cold windy November. We have a strong southeastern wind called koshava that blows up the Danube basin. (blows "up" as "upstream", the river does not explode :wink: )

*We have "lowlands", "hills" and "mountains". Lowlands are below 200 m of altitude. I live at about 190 m (actually I am up in the hills as I am several floors above ground 8O )

Here in the SE US, the leaves are just starting to fall off the trees, and the temperature has been getting down down to freezing at night, although it bounces back up to around 60 degrees Fahrenheit, although my friends in the nearby mountains tell me it has been cooler there. We've not had much rain recently so frost has not been much of an issue. We don't see very much snow in a winter, as a rule- our first snows come in December at their earliest, although it is more often in January or February. We have fairly mild winters here.

The commute also means the sun will go up and hour after I leave here, and set hours before I get back Confused

The story of my life for the last 11 years.

I saw some flurries on the way to work this morning, but it quickly melted as temps rose into the forties.

Originally Posted by floffe

How far has autumn come in other parts of the world (or spring, if you're on the other side)?

It's just now showing up in South Texas!

Today the high was 81...

It was NICE 8)

Most of the leaves have fallen off the trees; three weeks ago, there were beautiful reds, oranges, yellows but now they just look bedraggled. We've had a ton of rain (of course) and the temperatures are between 9 -12 Celsius in the day, going down to about 3 at night. We've had a couple of frosty nights. It might snow in January or February and it might stay for a week? 2 weeks? It's a big deal when it snows especially when we get a big dump of snow--the city grinds to a halt. Here in Vancouver, BC, we get wet, heavy snow--not like the dry, light snow I remember from when I lived in the prairies.

It is snowing right now!
I expected it tomorrow midday, as they announced, but it came early.
It is so interesting to see snowflakes "dancing" under the street lights at the other side of the street. They seem to move in some horizontal sinusoid motion, and every flake follows its own "wave".
The up side is that I felt somehow dizzy all day and now I feel energetic and refreshed. The down side is that it is almost midnight so I am supposed to be sleepy, which I am not.

We had a few snow flurries in places yesterday. Everyone said I was crazy when I said it was going to snow yesterday . . . . but I've taught long enough to recognize "pending snow behavior" when I see it.

Snow is a four letter word, along with dust, iron, wash, and cook! There is talk about some snow here on Wednesday and Thursday. I am signed up to cover our school board meeting on Weds. night, but will head home if the roads are bad.