Snow!
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Woke up to a nice surprise this morning: snow! I was worried that we weren’t go to be treated to any in Tokyo this winter, but thankfully it looks like I was wrong.
The temperature dropped to something respectably wintery over the weekend from an unusually warm stretch and the rain that had been falling intermittently for a few days decided to cooperate. It’s falling quite steadily so there shuld be plenty of ammunition for a good snowball fight when Jun gets home from school.
I’m off to try to get some photographs.
Update: Didn’t get any photos but did get a couple of QuickTime movies out of the CoolPix (got caught up playing with the movie feature).
The big news was that I saw my first actual, identifiable snowflake today! I’d never actually seen one before, all previous snowfalls being the big fluffy slow-moving variety.
Later in the day the big conglomerations of flakes petered out and tiny little individual ice flakes began to fall. They made small ticking noises as they struck my parka while I was shovelling the front of the house. I was so excited! Being bombarded with these beautiful little hexagonal crystals that shrank into miniscule drops of water when you breathed on them. I stood there in the middle of the street like I was autistic, hand outstretched, mouth agape watching them land on my black gloves until my wife told me to cut it out and come inside.
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Posted to The Good • 2002.12.09 (Mon) • 11:23
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Posted by Blaine Hilton 2002.12.09, 12:13
Congrats on the snow. We got some here in Indiana, USA a few weeks ago, now its just in spots. I'm waiting for a nice snow though……….
Posted by Kurt 2002.12.09, 12:56
it's quite a wonderful thing, isn't it. my wife told me of the chance yesterday, so I stayed up late and watched it fall this morning in the wee hours. snapped some photos later on, which can be seen here:
http://www.easterwood.org/hmmn/archives/000174.html#000174
Posted by jh 2002.12.09, 23:29
What a difference a phase change makes.
A cold icy rain sets no one's heart aflutter, but turn it into snow and you're ten years old again.
Posted by Jeff 2002.12.10, 02:29
Jeremy, I share your wonderment and the season's precipitation. And our blogs seem to be in sync. I have just written two posts about the first snow of the season here in Washington, DC (the first snow, actually, in the last couple of years).
Being originally from Southern California, I have a specific relationship with this weather…
Posted by Mary Beth 2002.12.10, 11:30
I was filled with the wonder of how exciting it must have been to see those small flakes landing on you. I find it always exciting to see them myself, even after all these years. And I love to come out in the morning and find all the wondrous designs that "jack frost" has painted on my windshield.
Here's a nice wintery scene you might like. It was part of a year of photos that I did around where I live.
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