Snow! Finally!!
[Written 2 January 2013]
After weeks and weeks of frost and rain but no snow, we finally got some white stuff on 27 December. (Last snowfall was in November apparently.)
Finally, some white to lighten the mood during these short days. 🙂
It kept snowing the day after, but this snow was very very wet, and with the ambient temperature hovering around zero, this is what happened:
A big lump of snow came careering off of our roof, landed on the patio, and splattered onto our living room window! It only took a few minutes before it had all melted off, but my camera happened to be on the window-sill so I managed to snap a quick picture.
It kept snowing overnight…
White but very wet and slushy snow around midnight.
The next day (29 Dec) Finnur and Bjarki went out to clear the drains in front of our house. First there was a bit of a cuddle in the sofa though:
Bjarki coming up with some nonsensical reason for why he shouldn’t do something his dad was asking him to do.
The boys being busy outside. Finnur’s memorized the location of the drains because we happen to live pretty much at the bottom of a bowl, and so we get big puddles right outside our house when it thaws.
This is just to give you an idea of the overnight snowfall.
As forecasted, the temperature hovered around zero Celsius for the remainder of the day, but during the next night it went firmly below zero and all the very very wet snow and watery roads and pavements froze solid.
We had Adda and Halli and their kids over on 30 December, and sent the kids out sledding. It turned out solidly frozen snow isn’t the most fun to slide on so the kids weren’t the happiest of campers.
Pretty early on Bjarki came home complaining of bad treatment at the hands of his big sister, so I hiked out with him to set things right. Much to my dismay, it turned out that most of the roads and pathways that the town-workers had diligently cleared and sanded the day before, had eaten the sand and re-frozen as solid clear ice, particularly during the steep parts. My pelvis is still unhappy from the experience, three days later.