The first of June marked the first day of Winter here and, for once, the weather changed accordingly. Throughout Autumn, we had amazingly warm days with temperatures occasionally rising to more than 20 C (68 F), hardly any frosts, and many lovely sunny days.
Yesterday, a fierce front came through from the south-west giving us a few rain showers and sending temperatures down about 15 C (60 F). Despite that, I rose at 6.30 am this morning to go for a walk as the day dawned bright and the overnight temperature was still around 5 C. I had only been back 30 minutes when something amazing happened. Dark clouds swept in driven by 30 kph westerly winds, the temperature shrank rapidly and it started snowing! This was by my calculation the first snow we'd experienced in 5 years. I couldn't resist taking some pictures of this event, some of which are shown below ... and one included is a short video. I expect that my readers in the UK and USA will laugh with contempt at our puny efforts at generating white flaky stuff and, to be honest, it didn't lay frozen on the ground. The sun came out after a short while and that was the end of our snow storm. Mind you, the maximum temperature today was just 5.2 C (41 F) and we decided to stay indoors in such frigid conditions. We also had wind gusts up to about 57 kph (35 mph) which created an 'apparent' temperature of just minus 6 C at 10.30 am - even with the sun out!
Here's what we saw: OK the snow is almost invisible, though it looked heavy to us.
However, the video might show the event better:
Comments welcome.
AS
Yesterday, a fierce front came through from the south-west giving us a few rain showers and sending temperatures down about 15 C (60 F). Despite that, I rose at 6.30 am this morning to go for a walk as the day dawned bright and the overnight temperature was still around 5 C. I had only been back 30 minutes when something amazing happened. Dark clouds swept in driven by 30 kph westerly winds, the temperature shrank rapidly and it started snowing! This was by my calculation the first snow we'd experienced in 5 years. I couldn't resist taking some pictures of this event, some of which are shown below ... and one included is a short video. I expect that my readers in the UK and USA will laugh with contempt at our puny efforts at generating white flaky stuff and, to be honest, it didn't lay frozen on the ground. The sun came out after a short while and that was the end of our snow storm. Mind you, the maximum temperature today was just 5.2 C (41 F) and we decided to stay indoors in such frigid conditions. We also had wind gusts up to about 57 kph (35 mph) which created an 'apparent' temperature of just minus 6 C at 10.30 am - even with the sun out!
Here's what we saw: OK the snow is almost invisible, though it looked heavy to us.
However, the video might show the event better:
Comments welcome.
AS
1 comment:
Looks like there were some decent sized snowflakes coming down. But you're right, that's not at all like the snow falls we get here.
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