thank you NASA – awesome photo of Snowmageddon surrounding NYC

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Great photo from yesterday’s Snowmageddon moving up the eastern seaboard and surrounding my home, NYC. the near-solid white line on the southern edge of the storm is particularly impressive. You can visit the MODIS web to see a larger version.

finland without snow

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

My friend and fellow artist Simo Alitalo wrote me this morning to inform me that Finland is without snow this winter. FINLAND… WITHOUT SNOW. I mean, cmon!! He writes:

Greetings from the darkness!

There is an old Finnish Christmas Carol where they sing that Christmas
is like a summer in the middle of winter.

The global warming is giving a new literal meaning to the song:
after the very warm year we are having extremely warm winter. No
snow, no ice, instead green grass and buds in bushes – and because
there is no snow the darkness is unbelievable!

The image up top was snapped from http://62.73.32.2/ , a URI Simo sent of a webcam pointed at a Finnish square. Look at how pitiful that Christmas tree near the middle looks. Just pitiful! Normally Finnish squares are a blanket of white!