#snowember16 – part I

This article is part of the series “2016-11: #snowember16”.

Hooray! Winter is here! I want 4 meters of snow and -45 °C already in November. (Well, a bit less is ok, too.)

I saw the first snow of the season two days before on my way back home from Umeå. The forecast predicted more snow to come today – even a class 1 snowfall warning had been issued – but not in Skelleftehamn where rain was forecasted.

Skelleftehamn showed only some patches of slush-like snow this morning as a result of last nights precipitations. Skellefteå got two centimeters of snow and experienced some wet snow showers today. On the way back to Skelleftehamn more snow lay on the ground. Between town and home it’s mostly a bit colder with neither city nor the Baltic Sea directly nearby. In Skelleftehamn itself however the snow has been almost rained away and the thermometer showed +2 °C.

Today I had a rehearsal with a new jazz trio in Kroksjön, which means hook lake and is just eight kilometres south from Skellefteå. It was just slightly colder there and the snow less wet. Round ten centimetres had fallen down – still wet but white and beautiful to look at. I took some photos after the rehearsal (I always have a tripod in the car).

When I made these photos it didn’t snow anymore, temperatures where below zero and I could see some stars. When I was on the 364 to Skellefteå it started snowing again, but not much, so I took the E4, the fastest way to Skelleftehamn. Well, normally. Today it took much more time. The snow fall intensified more and more and the visibility was really poor. Instead of 110 km/h I hardly dared to drive 70.

Another car tailgated me, eager to overtake. Finally the E4 became two-lane and the car driver overtook me. I really had to smile, because now – without my backlights in front – the other driver was forced to slow down as well, driving exactly the same tempo I had been using all the time.

It wasn’t easy but I found the exit to Skelleftehamn. The snow fall intensified even more and I slowed down further. Using the full beams the approaching snow looked like a tunnel of stars when a space ship goes into some kind of faster-than-light hyperdrive. That’s what it looks like (imagine that in fast motion):

Funnily enough the heavy snow fall decreased when I approached Skelleftehamn and stopped when I arrived home.

Now at 23:30 we have ca. 5 cm of snow and it started snowing a bit again. If the forecast is right we will get permanent frost on Friday and 30 cm of snow from Friday until Monday morning.

6 comments to “#snowember16 – part I”

  1. Annika 2016-11-03 09:08

    Ich finde, das orangene Licht macht sich sehr gut mit dem Schnee :-)

  2. way-up-north 2016-11-03 09:17

    Wie Du weißt, Annika, bin ich ja kein großer Fan von diesem orangen Licht auf Fotos. Bei dem Bild „Winter on 2 november“ habe ich die Farben auch ein bisschen in Richtung Tageslicht geschoben. Bei dem Sägewerk ging das nicht, weil die anderen Strahler schon so kaltes Licht hatten.

  3. Annika 2016-11-03 14:06

    Ich weiß, darum musste ich das hier auch nochmal kundtun :-)

  4. Nils 2016-11-03 21:05

    Juhu,

    Ja, in Luleå hat es heute auch schon angefangen, sieht hier aber bei Leibe nicht so gut aus wie die bei euch da unten :)

  5. way-up-north 2016-11-03 22:46

    Nils: Bei mir im Garten liegen schon 25 cm.

  6. way-up-north 2016-11-05 07:20

    … jetzt 40 cm.

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