What do you know about Russia besides Putin and Vodka? Vladivostok is more than 6000 miles and 7 hours from Moscow and, yeah, there's some life too.
Saturday, October 20, 2007
First snow
The first snow was early this year. It rarely snows here earlier November. The trees are still green and many of them didn't manage the weight of snow and fell down.
I think there's something fascinating in snow on the green grass and leaves.
That looks a little like our hometown in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan--we usually start getting snow around this time of year, and it lasts all the way up through April (and sometimes May), averaging around 250 inches every winter. What kind of snowfall do you get every year?
How do you measure the amount of snow? In Russia all kinds of precipitations are measured in mm of water they give. Never mind how tall snowdrifts can be if they melt and show 25mm (1 inch) of water the snowfall will be written down as a snowfall with 25mm of precipitation. Last winter we had 91 mm (3.6 inches). But I'll never believe the snow is measured them the same way in the USA to have 250 per winter!
It doesn't snow often in winter here but every snowfall petrifies the whole town. But then it gets even worse when the snow starts to melt at daytime and froze at nights. The town turns into a large skating rink, that's terrible. I think I'll have a chance to show it all a little later.
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That looks a little like our hometown in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan--we usually start getting snow around this time of year, and it lasts all the way up through April (and sometimes May), averaging around 250 inches every winter. What kind of snowfall do you get every year?
How do you measure the amount of snow? In Russia all kinds of precipitations are measured in mm of water they give. Never mind how tall snowdrifts can be if they melt and show 25mm (1 inch) of water the snowfall will be written down as a snowfall with 25mm of precipitation. Last winter we had 91 mm (3.6 inches). But I'll never believe the snow is measured them the same way in the USA to have 250 per winter!
It doesn't snow often in winter here but every snowfall petrifies the whole town. But then it gets even worse when the snow starts to melt at daytime and froze at nights. The town turns into a large skating rink, that's terrible. I think I'll have a chance to show it all a little later.
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