From summer to snow

After last week's record high temperatures have given way to an even more unusual contrast.
This is extreme. We are after all in the middle of June, and it is especially remarkable given the high temperatures we have just had. I cannot remember similar cases.

Ice Formation

Red berries

The blue hour

The blue hour is images by a photographer who prefers to shoot after sunset just before complete darkness.

Raining or snowing since November

Still raining.................
It's have been raining or snowing almost
every day since the beginig of November. I can't remember how the sun look like....

Dog buried alive under snow

An elderly Border collie was saved by his whimpering after he literally was buried under the masses of snow that fell over southern Norway last week.

The 11-year-old dog, named Bonzo, disappeared from his family's home last Tuesday. Days went by, with no sign of him.

A week later, the telephone rang and a woman said she'd heard some whimpering from a nearby park.
They found the dog under the snow. He was in surprisingly good shape, but almost certainly would have perished if he hadn't been found.

Trace from an animal in the snow

Frost mist

Snow stranded motorist

Civil defense troops and Red Cross workers launched efforts Thursday morning to evacuate motorists who were stranded overnight on the main highway along Norway's southern coast.













Heavy snows, high winds and bitterly cold temperatures ended up halting all traffic on the E-18.
Hundreds of cars and trucks lost control or were unable to drive because of snowdrifts or lack of visibility or both.
Some drivers were stuck in their vehicles overnight, and ran out of gas while sitting still and keeping their heaters running. Rescue crews were trying to get gasoline and food in to the drivers, while the Red Cross evacuated a busload of retirees who had been out on an excursion.

Some have been stuck in their cars up to 20 hours.

An early morning trip by the sea

Playing in the snow

Winter paradise

"Snow Hat" and an old house

It's still winter here in Norway

Winter is finally arriving across Norway

Freeze arrives
Norwegians have spent most of the winter complaining about the lack of snow and skiing, but now bitterly cold weather is on the way.
School had to close because the temperature in the classrooms was below + 10C.
Parts of inland eastern Norway must prepare for temperatures below -20C (-4F) as the weekend approaches.
The meteologs expects temperatures in Oslo and the mountains in southern Norway to hover around -15 to -20C (+5 to -4F). brrrrrrrrr.......... I'm longing for the summer.

Winter landscape

Dead Calm

A trip in the snow

Winter landscape

Stick on the ice

Winter Mood

One of the biggest problems most of us face in the winter is the lack of natural light. In the winter, the days are short, the temperature can be cold or gray, and the chances to go outside and get some natural sunlight lessen.

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Dramatic moose rescue ends sadly

Two 12-year-old boys out making ski tracks over the weekend ended up freeing a young moose that had gotten itself stuck in ice on a river. The stricken moose, however, failed to survive its ordeal.

The moose, believed to be a yearling, had apparently tried to cross a frozen river. The ice, however, had collapsed several places in the river, forming a sort of bobsled track that made it too difficult for the young moose to make his way up to the bank.
Exhausted, the moose had finally given up and was found lying down in the icy water that had seeped up through the ice.