It’s December in the north.
When I stand in the cold to see this, I begin to get an inkling of how special it all is, and how privileged I am to be a part of it.
Greetings from the north’s best season.
Tag Archives: Weather
Winter Greetings
Hello winter!
It’s cold, and pewter grey, with blue sky in glimpses and bits.
Lustrous lacy frost hangs on trees and grasses and in the very air itself.
Winter is here, and with it, its beauties and muffled quiet.
🙂
Visual Coffee
This was a recent morning scene.
I hadn’t had coffee yet but the bright morning sun helped me to get going.
Alas, as of a few days ago, this sunny weather turned. It has been a mixture of watery snow that has turned to snow that has turned to rain.
Inevitably though, whatever comes out of the sky over the next couple of weeks will be snow.
That’s the way of the north.
And it will stay for a bit, at least until March. And it will look like this.
Cold, crisp, clear.
🙂
Cirrus Clouds
A couple of days ago, I saw these rather spectacular cirrus clouds, or
horsetails, as I called them when I was a child.
Cirrus clouds are usually very high, between 5 and 25 kilometres (3 – 9 miles) above the ground. They often indicate the arrival of a front, or in the tropics, the possibility of a hurricane. Our weather remained steady (and hot), so these cirrus weren’t indicative of a change – they were fair weather cirrus.
What I found particularly interesting about these clouds was the corkscrew in the center of them. It looked like someone had swirled the clouds with a whisk. That corkscrew shape is also a type of cirrus, but they aren’t usually found together.
Cirrus clouds have been documented on Mars and Jupiter and are also responsible for light halos and winter sundogs.
Cheers from cirrus clouds of the Okanagan Valley. 🙂
On the Shores of Great Slave Lake
This wonderful bastion of indigenous culture is on one the shores of Great Slave Lake, not far from where I work.
I recently spent a day there.
The weather was fabulous.
Up here in the Northwest Territories we are enjoying some nice weather, finally. It’s been a wet, chilly spring, even for us.
Enjoy the late spring and all it has to offer. 🙂
Alien Attack?
This cloud formation with the sun coming through a narrow opening looks like …
… a phaser beam from an attacking spacecraft. Or, I’ve been watching too much Space channel. 😉
Do You Know What These White Spots Are?
It’s not a case of really bad dandruff.
It’s not dry skin.
It’s not an example of galloping exfoliation.
Nope.
It’s snow.
I know I’m in the north, but yikes. That’s soon even for here.
However, at least we don’t have a hurricane coming at us.
To those who do, stay safe. Good luck and good wishes.
This Is What Today Looks Like
Eeeek! Is spring EVER going to arrive?
This was the view on my cloudy, snowy walk to work this morning.
Our days are much longer now, but daylight is not the problem. Sunrise is at 6:00 am and sunset is 9:00 pm, but it just keeps snowing!
If you don’t hear from me for the next month, send snowplows! 🙂
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