Except we still have 10 hours of sun for the next couple weeks and we’ve had a severe drought. Today was the first significant rain in over a month. More like 6 weeks.
I’m a degree (or less) south of Helsinki, 10 hours of sun sounds like a ton this time of the year. We’ll be down to 6 or 6.5 by mid December and Finland will have even less
Yeah that’s even tougher, we get down to just under 9 hours average in December, but we don’t have the warm water from the Gulf Stream, so it’s similarly cold here.
We’ve had snow an hours drive north already. And a ski area a bit more north is forecasting 10-12” (20-30cm) of snow this week.
Wish we had snow here yet. Snow is nice. Cold is nice. It’s the dreary just above freezing wet and soggy mess of November I hate most.
I even got nice new Nokian winter tires (studded of course) for my car this year and they’re already installed, so I’m basically fully prepped for snow and ice season.
Is November even the worst time to visit Finland? I’d assume January or February
January and February have snow and cold and sometimes sun.
November is just wet, dark and miserable.
Sounds similar to anything from Paris and above in Western Europe, just maybe a few less degrees.
The dark is the difference. Sunrise was at 8.00 today and sunset was at 15.45.
Basically if you work 8-16 you don’t see the sun until springtime… 🫠
When I moved to Portland, they told me it’s not the cold that gets you, it’s the darkness.
Not too different from New England!
Except we still have 10 hours of sun for the next couple weeks and we’ve had a severe drought. Today was the first significant rain in over a month. More like 6 weeks.
I’m a degree (or less) south of Helsinki, 10 hours of sun sounds like a ton this time of the year. We’ll be down to 6 or 6.5 by mid December and Finland will have even less
Yeah that’s even tougher, we get down to just under 9 hours average in December, but we don’t have the warm water from the Gulf Stream, so it’s similarly cold here.
We’ve had snow an hours drive north already. And a ski area a bit more north is forecasting 10-12” (20-30cm) of snow this week.
Wish we had snow here yet. Snow is nice. Cold is nice. It’s the dreary just above freezing wet and soggy mess of November I hate most.
I even got nice new Nokian winter tires (studded of course) for my car this year and they’re already installed, so I’m basically fully prepped for snow and ice season.
Aw man I hate when I install snow tires too soon. My mechanical sympathy is triggered.
I’m worried that El Niño will put my area on a rain/snow line all winter.
It depends. You can get -20°C in November too. But yeah, mostly it’s just miserable and far more so than in central Europe.
Different darkness. Once worked 0830 to 1600 daily in a dark lab. Didn’t see the sun for about a month in November.