Hey everyone
Today I am here to talk about something different then my usual gaming related posts. It's been a while since I've made a post where I just write about what's been on my mind lately and now felt like a good time.
As most of you may already know or have noticed yourselves, the winter for us living up north(probably for others too) has been a little disappointing this year. It did start snowing at some point but it only took a couple of days for it to melt away. Leaving everything all wet and annoying. It's been like that multiple times already this winter. However the worst part of this isn't that it's wet or muddy. The thing that really gets to me is the darkness. I know there are a lot of people out here that have had it much worse this winter considering that last month a big part of Finland got no sun at all for the whole month. I live closer to the south so we have been very fortunate to have had a few really sunny days which really felt great.
I took a couple of photos today that I wanted to share with you where you can see how it looks over here at the moment.
This one is from yesterday.
As you can see there is not a lot of snow but enough to make everything white!
Yesterday we finally got some snow on the ground that has now stayed there and it feels like the winter has arrived. It doesn't make it less weird though that we are in the middle of January already. The constant darkness really has a lot of negative effects on people and it's almost funny that there are still people who don't "believe" in global warming. I remember about 4 or 5 years ago in the winter. Me and my friends would gather and the ones that had a drivers license back then would be the drivers and others would just ride with them. Since the town I live in is surrounded by water, someone usually makes these tracks in the snow on the ice that can usually go for a few kilometers. They are accessible by car and that is exactly what we would do. We used to drive out on the ice with the car fully packed and you wouldn't even be worried about the ice ever breaking or even making a sound. I'm not saying there are no risks with this and I don't recommend anyone try it since it probably can end very badly. But the reason I brought this up is to just make the point that the winters were insane only a few years back. Compared to now it's like our country floated away and ended up somewhere warmer without anyone noticing.
I have no idea how the winters are gonna look in the future but for the very first time I can honestly say that I miss the snow. I've lately seen pictures on social media that my friends have posted from ski resorts here in Finland and it looks so beautiful. I guess I've taken the winters and snow for granted in the past.
This one I took today a little earlier and there is a bit more snow on the ground.
Hopefully the snow will stay with us for a while this time instead of melting away.
What are some of your thoughts on the climate and have you noticed any changes in the latest years? Please let me know in the comments below.
Hope you're all having a great Friday so far and enjoy the weekeend !
Strawhat
