As the very warm autumn weather continues, still without a frost, here’s a collection of wake-up views so far this month:
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Actual sunyear rise today
…and today, the sun actually rose (visibly) for the first time this year. Here’s a series taken between 9:45 and 11:10. It’s now (11:40) set again behind the southern hills.
The sun is back
I noticed this morning sun shadows on the wall behind my back in the living room! YES, the sun is back. A whole week of cloudy weather after the sun was due to rise again above the southern horizon, so it wasn¨’t until today we could finally be sure that the sun was back, but there was only a small break in the clouds and it was soon gone again. However, spring is definitely in the air and two great tits (kjøttmeis) have been singing in the garden the last two days and a blue tit (blåmeis) joined them a couple of times! Good times!
I’ll never tire of that view!
Woken at 5:58 am by the first rays of the sun and bird song as warmer weather has arrived at last.
Basking again
Apologies to all who contacted me wondering if I was alright as I hadn’t posted for a month! No alarm…I’ve been very focussed on writing a series of 10 articles on perennial vegetables, completed earlier this week!
Finally, we could “bask” in sunshine again this morning after a few days of overcast and snow meant that we wouldn’t witness the return of the sun (due around 10th January). It doesn’t rise above the southern hills for 4-5 weeks here….a great time of the year as we get several hours of red skies each day.
The firs(t) of many sunrises in 2021:
The sun’s rays reflecting from Malvikodden:
Fully risen through trees in the garden:
A few pictures from when we were in the midwinter tunnel (aircraft contrails have been an unusual site):
One of the last sunrises
Fiery skies over a place called Hell
There were crazy fiery skies towards the east where the village of Hell is this morning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Norway). Sorry, but trouble is brewing!
Haze from East Europe
Last night the view over the fjord was so hazy we couldn’t see the mountains on the other side of the fjord despite clear skies otherwise and wondered if the smoke from the California fires had reached here (it was reported in western Norway recently) and this morning the sun was red as it rose through the haze. However, the meteorologists point to the source being strong southeasterly winds blowing up dust from dry agricultural land in Eastern Europe (=erosion), with possibly smoke from the Ukrainian forest fires mixed in!
Forbordsfjellet sunrise day
The position of sunrise on the horizon changes rapidly here, perhaps 5 degs. every week. Twice a year sunrise happens close to the peak of Forbordsfjellet the mountain on the other side of the fjord from the house. I’d never captured this event on camera before…until yesterday:
Mist and sunrise
Thick mist overnight was clearing at 9 this morning as the sun rose over the spruce forest.