Snowpenhagen
It started snowing yesterday which is absolutely wonderful. Our climate change lot is milder winters so snowfall is lovely. I was on my way home from various interviews yesterday and filmed this little film on the way.
The forecast today is only for 3-8 cm of snow in Copenhagen and 15-20 cm in other parts of the country, but it's nice to have a sense of winter.
I'd love to have a normal winter like we used to have here in Denmark, back when the seas froze and you could walk among the islands and even to Sweden. This photo is from 1922. Denmark has a number of ice breaker ships that are constantly on call during the winter but they haven't seen much action for the past decade or so.
The heat of the city causes most snowfall to melt here in Copenhagen but just a bit farther out into the country it sticks. And on the other side of The Sound, in Sweden, they get more snow, as a rule. I snapped this photo last year. This snowplough is in the small town near the summer house in Höör. Even in this town of 7000 people the bike lanes are cleared of snow right away.
9 thinking out louds:
That's really nice, Mikael!
I think I should make a video of how we cycle in Russia during winter. I had a ride recently when the temperature was -30*C... That was freezing, yet cool :)
that would be cool, vladmir! last winter there was a cold spell in germany and poland of -20 to -30. i blogged about it here.
We had a bit of snow in Zagreb also. But unlike Denmark or Sweden the roads for car traffic have way higher priority when it comes to cleaning. Every road was in perfect condition yesterday afternoon and almost every sidewalk or bike path was under tin layer of ice.
here in calgary alberta, we have just emerged from a solid week of -25 to -30 weather, including a large amount of snow and, being carfree, i had to ride in it everyday. riding in weather that cold is not as bad as some people think, you just bundle up and off you go.
the biggest problem we have here is that the city refuses to plough our side streets so getting out of your neighbourhood is usually the hardest part of the ride. once you get to our pathway system, huge parts of it are ploughed ALL WINTER(!) by the city and very frequently they are cleared before the roadways are. Love it!
Today, our temperature is a balmy 0c - might have to put shorts back on! (just kidding)
Yesterday I had to ride home into an extra dry northerly headwind with the temperature reaching 40 degrees, so your images of snow were most refreshing. Last summer I managed to ride in 46 degrees, which is a record for me.
What on earth do you people wear when riding in such freezing conditions? I have around five layers of clothing on when it gets down to around 5 degrees on winter evenings, and even then I feel uncomfortable.
we just wear the clothes in our closets. we don't have 'pedestrian' clothes so anything you can walk in, you can cycle in.
The idea that individual cities create too much heat for snow to stick frightens me.
I see lots of child seats, but not so many children in the shots. Location or cold?
Adrienne: time of day. Most of them, and me, were on our way to pick up kids.
Climate change may alter the salt balance in the ocean currents and that could take away a lot of warm water heating northern europe, or so I understand, and we don't know when that tipping point might be, or have been.
But we still have to keep biking! tx
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