by February snow
It’s been snowing here, now on its third day. As we live near sea level it is wet snow leaving little on the ground or on the trees. Higher up there is lots of it. A father-daughter hike on the mountainside with photos to share at home – beautiful!
February 24, 2014 in Canada and BC, Home, Photography by Marja-Leena
Dramatic stuff! Though I’ve had enough for this season…
Oh, I’m sure you have had enough, Marly, as have so many east and southeast of us this winter!
And yikes, we keep getting more and it has been sticking down here. Interesting weather.
Well, enjoy if you can! I’m ready for snowdrops!
Last weekend’s snow is long gone. We had a gorgeous sunny day yesterday and my early crocuses were in bloom. The snowdrops are still in flower, lasting an incredibly long time thanks to a cold February. Now we have another weather advisory re more snow tonight and tomorrow. I really cannot complain compared to some past winters here and how it is across the rest of the country still.
Hope things are warming up for you!
I was just about to shut down for the evening when I saw you had a new post. The mountainside forest snows are quite magnificent. I love the one with your daughter showing the scale of the trees.
We’ve had lots of it this winter too, including more forecast for Wednesday, but the accumulation of every snowstorm has been washed away by rain within a week. Now spring is at hand I have no worries this next one will last. I really should take the camera to the park.
I hope your spring flowers haven’t been damaged or lost under the stuff.
Susan, we did not get much snow whereas areas south of us and the islands got a lot. In the Victoria area where our middle daughter’s family lives the power has been out since this morning. Weird how variable place to place this westcoast storm has been. I don’t think anything in the garden has been harmed – the snowdrops are still there, held by a cold February though I must check tomorrow. Usually they are gone by now, replaced by the crocuses.
I hope you will take some photos of your snowy scenes and share them with us!
It is lovely,but people are getting worn down. We have an unusual number of visitors now in Hawaii.
Hattie, yes they sure are tired of it in much of the middle and the east of North America. We’ve had an easy winter here in Vancouver, not even as wet as usual. This late snow has made lovers of snow sports and ski hill operators very happy – and we’ll not be worrying about water shortages come summer.
What I always loved about snow, if I could forget about the problems of travel etc., was the newness and silence of it all. And silence is a great blessing. I know that, of course, people who have suffered unusual, even unmanageable, levels of snowfall have become weary of it; we on this side of the pond are feeling the same way about the high winds and heavy, persistent rainfall. The problem is, I suppose, that we can have too much of a good thing.
Tom, yes, I too love the quietness. I love watching the thick snowflakes falling. And yes, too much disrupts traffic. While so many places have had too much, we have not had enough – there needs to be more sharing of the good as well as the bad. 🙂
Marja-Leena & al,
we have warmest February for a century. And British Isles has stormiest since 1700-hundreds, when they started to take record weathers and write it down. Those two are connected: Atlantic storms are much more energetic than usual. They sweep thru lowlands in Netherlands (=lowlands), thru Skagerrak og Kattegatt, thru South Sweden and warm up Southern and Western Finland.
Actually there was maybe 1,5 weeks of winter.Now the temperature is +7 C. And the schools have yearly ski vacation. With hardly no snow. So everybody who can afford travelled to Lapland. Skiing here means cross-country skiing. I watched the snow and winter in Eastern coast of North America and came up with one thought: maybe people should learn cross country skiing? I mean, at least in New York region schools were closed, busses didn’t run, cars froze etc. Skis would’ve taken people at least to the stores!
It does look to me that unusual phenomena in weather could very well be part of the coming climate change.
Ripsa, the weather patterns have been most unusual thanks to climate change, especially with the melting ice in the arctic and a new phenomenon over North America called the polar vortex. Storms coming from Siberia instead of the west.
Cross-country skiers have been seen here in winters when we’ve had very heavy snowfalls. I remember one blizzard in Winnipeg in my youth when no vehicles could get around. My boyfriend (now husband) skiied across the city to visit me.
I have missed having a snowy Winter this year, but we had snow in March last year, so who knows! Those photos are uplifting to the spirits.
Olga, me too! And yes, we’ve had some of those March even April snowstorms which can be quite damaging. We lost a major branch out of our magnolia tree because snow is so wet here.
What beautiful pictures. I drove to and hiked on a mountain with a friend last winter. The snow and ice were beautiful, and it contrasted with our small amounts of it, which had melted the week before. We’ve had a lot of snow this winter in Northern Virginia, and I don’t think I could ever get sick of snow. (I’ve tried talking my wife into considering retiring to somewhere far north of here, but she’ll have none of it!)
Peter, I gather you did not grow up in snowy winter climes. I did and still love the snow, especially when it’s new and clean and white. What is not nice is if it is too cold to be outdoors. We are hoping to go up the mountain tomorrow for more of a snow fix if the coming rains hold off.
Retiring to a snowy climate sounds the very opposite of what most people do! Have you heard of our ‘snowbirds’? Those are the Canadian retirees who go south to California, Arizona and Florida for the winter. Not us, we like it here on the west coast just fine.
True! I grew up in Tidewater, Virginia. The biggest snow we ever got growing up was six inches. I thought heaven had come to earth.