I live a long way north of Moscow (And all of the USA that isn't Alaska) but with an oceanic rather than continental climate. However snow is hardly a surprise.
With about 3cm of it today - it took me from 16:30 to 18:10 to drive 18km (11 miles) tonight - 20 minutes for the last 200m (yards).
Not seen a gritter yet! The forecast says rain at 9am. And 100mm of snow for the rest of tomorrow. I have to be at a course in Clydebank on Friday at 9am - reckon I'm leaving here in about 12hrs time to make sure I get there. Will stay with friends who I worked with in Africa tomorrow night. If I'm not there on Friday, regardless of reason, I get a bill for approximately the value of my car.
Actually, London did better with the gritting than Aberdeen in January this year. There were some seriously inventive lies from our council about that. But here, people went to work anyway - in London they didn't bother. This was a pain. My two flatmates from 1981 were on the same continent as me which last happened in 1981 (I spent the mid-80's in Africa - Rod in France/Switzerland and Hamish in HK) so we arranged to meet up in Reading where one of our number now lives - the other was in Windsor. I couldn't get from SE20 to central London on the 7th of Jan - not because of snow but because the railway workers hadn't even tried to go to work. This seems to be acceptable in the south - it certainly isn't here. Several days here the snow was deep enough to prevent my car moving at all (Which only takes about 4"). So I walked to work. As did my 63 year old boss who lives 6 miles out of town. At least I only had a mile and a half to walk.
Grit!
That's what we get for breakfast.
Which is why I last had breakfast when I was an army chaplain in 1987.
In the past week we have gotten around 20-30 cm of snow here, with another 10-15 coming down as we speak. This is going to be a snowy winter here in Canada:D
We should start to see snow here too in about a month or so but only on top of Mauna Kea. There are people here that actually snow board in the morning and go surfing in the afternoon. It makes me laugh sometimes when I see snowboards being sold on craigslist.....usually during the beginning of summer.
I still haven't been up to the top of Mauna Kea but hopefully I will sometime next year. I would love to take pictures of the sunrise or sunset from up there. People say that watching the sunrise or sunset is like having a religious experience.
Here morning was a little snow, but gone quickly. Now raining.
Tomorrow forecast: freezing rain at early morning brrr The winter is coming.
I always wonder about the Internet: You read forums, and you will get global weather forecast.
The "local time" and time zones are another wonder, when you read, write, buy on the net.
You lucky bastards...who lives in 25-30 C in winter
Here is -1C, morning was -5C.
Yesterday, morning was 10cm snow. It rained in the afternoon, freezing rain fell in the evening...
Becouse yesterday was not enough cold, the snow sticks on the trees. Some tree fallen on the catenary. We had no electricity for 6 hours. But, "We love it here!" like Walter in Jeff Dunham show. Here from 7:50