I realize that for those of you in MUCH of the U.S. snow is just not
that big of a deal, but here in Helsinki it's been the great missing
ingredient (head about 100 miles north and it's everywhere). Not only
did I have ridiculous expectations about how cold it would be living
here, but it seems like me as well as everyone else pretty much expected
us to be dealing with snow days from sometime in November--and to hear
many Finns say it, the earlier the better. Other than a brief flurry of
frozen condensation at the end of November, though, we've had
nothing--just ice and rain and more rain. (It's been very
Dublinesque.) Now, even though I know that no snow = no ice = no me
falling on my butt, I've been wondering when I'd get to experience
anything that I might not have dealt with in SC.
Well,
this afternoon I looked up from my computer, wondering my it was getting
so dark (and saying it's dark in an Helsinki winter is saying
something). Snow! I was so inspired I actually popped open my bedroom
window and took a video of it.
Unfortunately the weather is supposed to go back to above freezing for the rest of the week, but it's sure nice to see this now.
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