The old Norse people did not believe in a hell where it was very hot. The worst hell they could imagine had to be cold. Freezing cold! I guess most of the northern hemisphere has experienced that feeling this winter.
The thing with weather, snow and ice is that even though it feels kind of bad, it looks very interesting. So too with these “ice roses” as they are called in Norway.
Ice rose
I often bring along my little Canon G9 when I am out and about. Today there was -12 degrees Celsius and a few snowflakes were falling slowly down from the skies. Except that the building where my company has their office is built in such a way that there is a small draft coming from below. Thus the snowflakes were equally falling down and blowing up again. Some of these flakes even got stuck to the windows.
Snowflake on the window
Snowflakes on the window
Snowflakes on the window
In these global warming days it is nice to see that the extremes still give us some snow now and then. Actually this winter we have seen a lot of it. A few weeks ago the snow on the slopes next to the road was at about 1,5 meters of height. Now they are about half that. It is kind of weird though. The birds are singing among the threes, the fog is hanging low and the days are fast getting brighter. But there is still about 1 meter of snow laying on the fields. A bit more than normal for this time of year. Further north on the west coast of Norway they have almost no snow left.
Yesterday the first snow this winter arrived in Oslo. As usual people think they will get away a few more days without switching to winter tires, when they suddenly realise that they are wrong. The right lane almost did not move at all.
