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We got some cold weather and then of course some snow. And this time smaller roads are icy an snow actually stays longer than couple of hours. Maybe this is beginning of the Winter? Well, they have predicted that soon we will again see some warm weather so it will melt away but anyway, we are progressing to right direction all the time.

Beginning of October there was just yellow and red leaves in the trees and most of those were actually falling down. Nature was preparing for Winter.

And then suddenly there was a storm hitting the Finland, twelve days later from the first picture. The strong wind brought also some rain with it and also the temperature went down so the rain came down as a snow. We have seen the first snow for this Winter, it of course melted away already during that day but this is the beginning.

Storm travelled through the Sweden during Thursday night and arrived to Finland on Friday. In Sweden it caused power outages but in Finland we just got some heavier winds and rain during the Friday. But it turned different during the night, I woke up hearing rain but when I looked out of the window, I saw something white. No, not again …

I like winter but there is a time for everything and now it should be time for spring. There is a little bit snow on the ground (you can still clearly see ground, it is not completely white) and it is currently still snowing, sort of. I hope weather would just turn back to warm.

And I caught a cold … I have been sneezing few days now but I am recovering slowly.

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.

It is getting warmer again. I was in Germany last week, left from Finland on Saturday 3rd of February and then the weather here started to get colder during our vacation. The car was at the airport when it got really cold and when we came back on the night between Wednesday and Thursday last week it was -26 Celsius degrees (-14.8 Fahrenheit degrees).

I was walking to my car and noticed how they were taking away a brand new BMW, I guess it didn’t start or something else was wrong with it but I was thinking how it will work with my car. The car was all covered with ice and snow and doors were frozen. I tried to start the car and it actually started right away - not even a long startup time and no unstable running. So nice, it is really a winter car as they say.

I will be putting some of the vacation photos online very soon. I promise

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.

It is 7:30am and still completely dark while driving to Helsinki. Some snow would help to give us some light; hopefully there will be some snow at least for Christmas. All the snow we received melted away and we are currently experiencing some unusually warm weather. Well, I am born in November so I am used to darkness; there is something very calming in the total darkness like this.

Lights at the airport bringing some light to the dark season. Reindeers and snowflakes.