Posted on 08/16/2017 10:57:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The first snow of the season has fallen in northern Sweden, but most of the country still remains flake-free.
The snowfall came on Monday evening and in the early hours of Tuesday at the Låktatjåkko ski lodge, Sweden's highest mountain station at 1,228 metres above sea level.
“We had a lot of snow last winter. It was a good season for skiing,” station attendant Henrietta Backman told regional newspaper Norrbottens-kuriren.
There are still large patches of snow left over from last winter in the area, and it is not unusual for the first snow of the new season to fall in August.
“It's almost the same day to the day as last year. It seems to be punctual,” said Backman.
Most of Sweden will be able to enjoy summer temperatures for at least another month, but the autumn season has officially arrived in north-western parts of the country.
The meteorological definition states that autumn arrives when temperatures stay below an average of 10C for five consecutive days. Winter is here when they drop below an average of 0C.
Must be that global warming we keep hearing about.
It is a beautiful country ... in the summer.
… but most of the country still remains flake-free …I guess they do not know the other definition of “flake” in English.
It’s mid-August. That is summer, and it’s snowing.
That's got to be it.
Even that is out-of-the-way from the normal European tourist track.
If it would only deep freeze the g-d muzzies.
I was thinking the country is covered in flakes, just not physical snowflakes. Cultural snowflakes.
With all them blondes???
Gee what’s a moslem from the warm Middle East to do now ???
Sweden has snowflakes! Sweden has snowflakes! Are they from America or their own leftist spawn?
Actually, that sounds pretty good right about now. Just for a few days, though ... not the next 9 months.
My mother and her friends took a tour of “Scandinavian Capitals plus St. Petersburg.” It was one of their favorites.
Ummmm Snow, in the north on a 3000 foot elevation?
Heck we get snow and sleet on Mt Washington in the middle of summer in a storm.
This is called NORMAL.
Is the debate over?
We have flakes in the United States, too. Consider Arizona.
Rape, pillage, enslave and murder.
We need to send warm clothing to the mussie rapists.....
How about rape another Swedish Blonde?
How about behead a Swedish policeman?
How about work hard to implement Sharia Law so Muslim men can legally rape wives, school girls or even children if they so desire? Their Koran allows this, and in some places even orders Muslims to attack infidels.
If you can read, you can see what these barbarians are ordered to do by Hussein Obama's HOLY KORAN. Islam is NOT a religion, it is a murderous cult that demands Muslims kill infidels to purify the world.
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