White landscapes (photos)

12-14cm was the snow amount in Arendal, but although the snow was laying on the ground it was slowly melting due to the temperature at +0oC. So, after the temperature has been negative the last days the melted snow has frost again making the streets really dangerous. I, personally, have slipped many times while walking and I also fell once hurting myself...! Many car accidents have also happened with injured people. A 40 year old woman lost her life in Southern Norway.

http://www.yr.no/nyheter/1.6342986

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Some snow is possible in the end of the week, after Friday.

             

Rain became snow! (photos)

As soon as November left, December welcomed us with some snow in the morning!

  

It was just a thin white layer, but it managed to make the landscape beautiful.

   

The sun also appeared at noon, but it soon got cloudy again and it started snowing. I measured around 5cm of snow at night.

   

The snow started to melt on Tuesday (2/12), but it didn’t disappear. So, since the temperature was below 0oC on Wednesday, the snow remained until Thursday, when some snow came again. However, it was just two snow showers. The first one came at ~17:00 and the snow was very dry, like caster sugar, although the snowflakes had a round shape. The snow of the second shower was normally wet.

However, a precipitation zone was coming towards Norway from Denmark, but it was not sure whether it was snow or rain… Meteorologists had forecasted rain in the coastline for Friday (5/12) and the snow limit would be up to 200m. I didn’t want to admit this forecast, till I suddenly saw the temperature raise just before midnight over 0oC…

I set the mobile alarm at 4:00 in the morning to check out if it would be snowing or not… When I looked out of the window I could barely see that it was raining and I was so angry, that I fell asleep again…

Now after the sad surprise I had at night, I had to look outside if the snow had disappeared… What I had seen at 9:00 surprised me happily, because I didn’t expect the rain turning to snow. The temperature had fallen something also unexpected! The temperature was at 0oC, so it was such a luck that it was not raining. And although I noticed the snow was slowly melting, snowfalls keep covering everything.

The interesting is that in Kristiansand, a town 75km from here, it seems that it’s raining instead of snowing…!

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I have not measured the snow amount yet, but I will let you know in the next post with photos and videos additionally.