Weather winter 2011-12

[Maggi Young]

You have been busy, cohan... good to know that you are well.
That photo of the sunlight through the archway of  snowy trees is very pretty.... just the thing for a seasonal card!
Been mostly fairly mild but damp and dark here. Some sunshine today... hurrah! ... but now the wind is getting wild.... hurrummph!

[cohan]

Thanks, Maggi right in the acreage here, that's mostly how we see the sun in mid-winter: through the trees! though it does just reach the house part of the day (fall / spring we get lots of sun indoors).. luckily, back in the part of the farm woods I've been getting wood from, there is lots of sun, and once out on the road of course its open...
Sometimes I think mild is a good tradeoff for dark and gloomy, other times I am very glad to have the sun! In Toronto winters the sun was more scarce than here and I was always very excited to see it come out again!
Our highs for this week range from -4 to +9 with 3 days of full sun, and mix of sun and cloud the others....
Here are a couple of shots taken this morning by my housemate when he was out to shovel.. I was out shovelling at midnight and it was very beautiful with just outside house lights on the trees, this early morning shot captures a similar feeling...Second shot is looking out the driveway..

[Hoy]

Haar is a sea fog.... but it can reduce visibility to only tens of metres .

Haar?? In Dutch that means something completely different....  We call sea-fog "sea-flame" or "sea-smoke"....

WimB,
Haar in Dutch is it the same as hår in Noewegian and hair in English?

[Hoy]

Hello, Cohan, nice "seeing" you again! You are still busy with firewood I see. I have planned some treefelling later this winter - if I get the time

[Maggi Young]

Here are a couple of shots taken this morning by my housemate when he was out to shovel.. I was out shovelling at midnight and it was very beautiful with just outside house lights on the trees, this early morning shot captures a similar feeling...Second shot is looking out the driveway..

Nothing like snow and darkness to look spooky.....

[cohan]

Hi Trond
Yes, always firewood...lol.. in theory I should be doing it in summer, but then it would be impossible to build gardens!! Anyway, I am mostly harvesting deadwood, so I don't need to dry it, and its much nicer to be in the bush with your hands full after the mosquitoes have frozen!!

Maggi-- yes, kind of spooky, but also magical- the snowflakes glisten in night light like a million crystals!

[Rogan]

Snow, haar, mist, fog, gloom, -20C daytimes - thank goodness I live in South Africa!   

[Maggi Young]

Snow, haar, mist, fog, gloom, -20C daytimes - thank goodness I live in South Africa!  

Good point, Rogan.... when can I arrive with you?  
(And I say this on a day when the sun is actually shining here!)

[angie]

Snow, haar, mist, fog, gloom, -20C daytimes - thank goodness I live in South Africa!   

Good point, Rogan.... when can I arrive with you? 
(And I say this on a day when the sun is actually shining here!)

Na you would never leave sunny Scotland  .

Angie

[Paul T]

Snow, haar, mist, fog, gloom, -20C daytimes - thank goodness I live in South Africa!   

Rogan,

I feel a bit the same way at times.  Personally I think I'd like somewhere in between Scotland and here temp-wise.  Would be nice to not have the 40^oC in summer, nor near that.  Still want to be cold enough to grow my cold climate stuff though..... it is why I could never move to the coast.... not cold enough to grow my really interesting stuff.   

[cohan]

Paul, while I don't really mind the cold (note: a major part of my plant obsessions-including many South Africans!- live indoors all year!) were I to have a chance to move somewhere truly warm, I would adapt just fine to growing the bazillions of fascinating dry or wet tropicals, and would not cry about no crocus...lol

[Anthony Darby]

I'm with you Cohan. I could quite happily live in Jamaica!

[angie]

Just back from a walk outside, boy its cold out there. Snow will be here soon. We have been spoilt lately with the mild weather we have had for this time of year. Now what I would like is just to find a place that is about 25c eight months of the year and not a windy place. I couldn't live in a place that has 40c, I wouldn't be able to spend all day outside gardening.
Now where is that perfect place for me 

Angie

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Haar is a sea fog.... but it can reduce visibility to only tens of metres .

Haar?? In Dutch that means something completely different....  We call sea-fog "sea-flame" or "sea-smoke"....

WimB,
Haar in Dutch is it the same as hår in Noewegian and hair in English?

I think WimB may have missed this Trond - yep : haar in Dutch = hair in English - and I'm sure you know Norwegian better than we do.... 

[Anthony Darby]

Yep, mist that.