We received suddenly unexpected cold weather this week and on last night it snowed a little bit. The temperature is -3 Celsius degrees (26.6 Fahrenheit degrees) and it feels very cold after a warmer time. I wish Spring would really arrive soon now as you cannot just go between cold and warm weather all the time.
And guess who had scheduled time for tire change for next Tuesday? Let’s see how the weather develops.
CSSA Tampere organised the traditional Chinese New Year – this year it was February 17th. This was also the first year I attended – I must say that it was very nice party, I liked it a lot. There was a possibility to watch the CCTV New Year’s Gala and also locally there was some program arranged. As usual, it was nice to see some friends along the good food.
It is snowing again.
Well, we got some snow once again. This time the ground is actually even looking white. Let’s see how long this lasts this time, I have become a little bit sceptical whether we are going to get any kind of proper winter this year. Weather forecast isn’t promising anything too good.
And of course it turned out to be slippery again – not too difficult to drive but something was reminding about the weather in the dashboard, the little yellow warning light telling me that computer is actually taking care of handling the too much sliding.
Everyone are planning their winter vacations although, it doesn’t feel like winter when it is so warm and so far (until today) we haven’t been seeing the snow but I guess it is something people are used to do at this time of the year – planning the upcoming winter vacation.
Winter is not coming after all. We are now running on the sixth day of the new year and we still cannot see much of a sign for a winter. Temperature is still quite high for this time of a year and no sign of snow.
The text messages are still not travelling between Finland and China, phone calls are back to normal now. Internet is slowly recovering, it is now possible to access some sites in China again and people in China are able to access for example Windows Live Messenger network. According to the recent reports, the recovery will take still pretty much all January. The Wikipedia has been again quite quick on getting up to day and already has an article about 2006 Hengchun earthquake and also has details about the damaged communication cables.
The local dance school was promoting the upcoming dance competition and at the same time they were giving few dance shows to the audience in the local mall.
It started to snow, finally. Winter is now here.
Well, first the Autumn storm hit the Finland and it was a nasty surprise to wake up at 3am when the wind started to howl in the corners. On Saturday morning I was surprised to see that the wind also brought some snow with itself. And it didn’t melt – we are still having some snow on the ground and temperature is below freezing point most of the time.
Did the winter arrive so easily or is it going to warm up still?
It is getting more and more cold these days, this morning I drove to the office at 7am and my car temperature meter was showing +1 Celsius (33.8 Fahrenheit) degrees only. It certainly is feeling cold now.
Yesterday I got the winter tires changed to my car and it is ready for the first snow to arrive. With my typical luck it will take weeks before we actually see that happening now when I am prepared. They were predicting snow for the Friday in the beginning of this week but of course the weather changed slightly during the week.
Sun is rising at the moment and I took a picture through my office window.
