Oslo winters

Here is the same location that I started off the blog with, except now the water in the fjord is now frozen. Birds walk on the surface rather than swim, although I saw a little open water that was filled with ducks and swans near the tidal river. Further out there are still large ships passing, but close by it appears to be thick ice, and now covered in snow. After 3 days of sun and -14C weather, it is again snowing. It snowed most of yesterday, all of today, and is forecast for the remainder of the week. I will be in total shock returning to spring in Arizona. Still, I find that I am wearing less layers than when I first arrived, so I am no longer the novice. I have learned that I am much warmer if I wear gloves and a hat than an extra shirt, which I find an interesting bit of info. The days are now quite a bit longer. This photo, while it is snowing and hard to tell, is taken at 3:30pm, the same time I took the one in January, except then the sun was setting. Now the sun set around 5pm and is up at 8am. It is almost a 3 hour increase in just one month.