My bike trip today 30.12.2013

Hello!

I went biking again. Lenght of my trip today was 28,5km.
Cloudy day and +3C during my biking. It started to rain within last seven kilometres of my trip.
It was exeptionally good weather for biking at this time of year. It could also be snowy and colder than -30C, but it is not so now.
I took photos and videos too.

My route today:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B81uIIcqkoIMZmhPeG9TV2E5Qzg/edit?usp=drivesdk



 Created Google My Tracks app on your Android device. Name: 30.12.2013 bike trip Type of activity: biking Description: - Total distance: 25.41 km (15.8 miles) Total time: 2:51:12 Movement Time: 2:09:23 Average speed: 8.91 km / h (5 , 5 mi / h) Average moving speed: 11.78 km / h (7.3 mi / h) Max Speed: 28.79 km / h (17.9 mi / h) Average pace: 6:44 min / km (10 51 min / mile) Average moving pace: 5:06 min / km (8:12 min / mile) fastest pace: 2:05 min / km (3:21 min / mile) Maximum height: 170 m (559 feet) in height: 95 m (313 feet) achieved a height of 345 m (1,133 feet) Enimmäiskorkeustaso: 15% Vähimmäiskorkeustaso: 12% Upload: 30.12.2013 12.26

Happy New Year!

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Snowless end of year 2013

Hello!

Today I make trip with my bike. The lenght of my trip was 26,5km.
90% of the trip roads was snowless and the rest of 10% was covered with melting ice.
It was warm +4C and fair weather with moderate winds. I have done really rarely if never such long bike trips at this time of the year. I cycled slowly, because I did not want to get my clothes dirty. And I had plenty of time.
I filmed three YouTube videos today of which two are train related. My YouTube-name is also Natureweather.

Here in Siilinjärvi it is almost 100 % propability of white Christmas and now 29.12.2013 it is almost snowless ground. It has rarely been as snowless as now in here during my 30 year life. But 3-5 years ago I remember it was snowless spots even sixth of January.
The areas of high pressure and low pressure at Europe has been mostly such positions that mild airmass has been predominant here.
Siilinjärvi is located 63 degrees northern latitude.

Map of my bike trip today at below:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B81uIIcqkoIMWTRKdGpuLTc2c1E/edit?usp=drivesdk


Name: Cycling trip 29/12/2013 Type of activity: biking Description: - Total distance: 22.77 km (14.2 miles) Total time: 2:32:35 Movement Time: 2:01:10 Average speed: 8.95 km / h (5 6 miles / h) Average moving speed: 11.28 km / h (7.0 mi / h) Maximum speed: 21.04 km / h (13.1 mi / h) Average speed: 6:42 min / km (10 47 min / mile) Average moving pace: 5:19 min / km (8:34 min / mile) fastest pace: 2:51 min / km (4:35 min / mile) Maximum height: 136 m (448 feet) in height: 84 m (274 feet) achieved a height of 299 m (979 feet) Enimmäiskorkeustaso: 18% Vähimmäiskorkeustaso: 26% Upload: 29.12.2013 11:48

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Christmas Eve 2013

Hello!

Today was cloudy day, +0-+1C. Dry weather until weatherfront came 8 PM with sleet and wet snow.
After noon I went for a walk of which was 9km long. I filmed two even funny svan videos. The svan was on an area of Tarinagolf golf course.

My walk route today:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B81uIIcqkoIMMF9HNm12Yk9Yd0k/edit?usp=drivesdk

After that I went to sauna and then I ate Christmas meal and got presents.

9-10 PM I went to main cemetery of Siilinjärvi with my bike and filmed candles at memorial.

Merry Christmas!

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The winter solstice

Hello!

Today 21.12.2013 is the day of winter solstice. After that the days will become longer.:)
At Siilinjärvi the lenght of day today is 4h40min. Sunrise is 9:48 AM and sunset 2:28 PM.

At now here is not enough snow for skiing. Temperature today was around 0C. Cloudy day and late evening it began snowing. The Cristmas eve will propably be white here, but barely.
December has been many degrees warmer than average.

I have read that snow cover doubles the amount of light compared to snowless ground during clear weather. And even 4x more ligh during cloudy weather with snowcover compared to snowless ground.
http://blogi.foreca.fi/2013/12/lumipeite-jopa-nelinkertaistaa-valon-maaran/

Upmost photo is taken 21.12.2013, 3:01 PM.

Lowest Christmast tree photo 15.12.2013, 3:20 PM at Harjamäki, Siilinjärvi

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My photography and shopping trip 18.12.2013

Hello!

Today was beautiful sunny day, -1C. So I decided to go shopping to city of Kuopio and I took videos and photos too.
Maybe it is best that I will try to write mostly in English, because Finland is small language area. And most of my blog visitors are not from Finland. Great help for me is web-dictionary page with many languages:
http://ilmainensanakirja.fi/
This page is often more handy and faster than thick paper dictionary.
I can quickly find and verify words. And my language skills may improve during years. But we have partly different word order in Finnish language than English.

I put my phones gps tracking on and here is my route of today:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B81uIIcqkoIMZURob3JjTUNIY1E/edit?usp=drivesdk

At below is "few" photos I took today. I saw colours of rainbow on lake ice (Lake Kallavesi) Kallansillat, Kalla bridges. I have never seen that kind of sight. And at noon the Sun shines surprisingly low here, as you can see. Lenght of sunshine (day) is today 4hour 41minutes at Siilinjärvi.

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Canon PowerShot SX50 HS review

Hello!

Today  14.12.2013 was sunny day with exellent visibility and temperaratures about -10C.
I decided to make test videos to YouTube and I took few photos with no zoom, little zoom, moderate zoom, 50x optical zoom, 100x zoom, 200x zoom. No tripod or monopod used.

Canon PowerShot SX50 HS is the best camera I had been. It is the fifth camera I had been owned if cell phone cams or webcams not included. I am not keen system cameras/single-lens reflex cameras at now. When I bought this camera big zoom was most important for me.

At this camera has great image stabilizer. Many people may wonder that whether is it possible to take photos or videos with 50x or bigger zooms without a pedestal. But my photos and videos will tell you that and you will see the quality. Biggest filesize in this camera is 4 gigabytes, which is usually 16 minutes of full hd video, sometimes more, even 20 minutes full hd video depending on condition.
For lower video qualities it is possible to make 30 minutes long videos, or even 1 hour with low quality. I bought a memory card with 64GB capasity for this camera.

One thing I wish to be better is that I would like to took photos and videos in darker conditions too than it is possible with this camera. Maybe I should have other camera for darker conditions.

I bought a lens hood for this camera too and it is handy that I dont have to take it off when I put this camera to official PowerShot- camera bag for this camera model. I also bought two extra batteries and these are not Canon batteries, because I got those cheaper. I changed bigger camera strap for this camera. Earlier the stap was on my previous camera

Olympus-SP-810UZ of which I sold.


Zoom videos:
https://www.youtube.com/user/natureweather/videos

I changed afterwards (28.1.2014) all zoom photos below. There are some smoke from factory pipes decreasing visibility.

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No zoom

Little zoom

Moderate zoom

50x optical zoom

100x zoom

200x zoom

Storm Seija 13.12.2013

Hello!

At now there is too little snow for me to ski. Two warm days, even +5C and rain melted some snow.
But very eager persons may still ski, they may not be worry about scratching their skis. And today in Finland was a stormy day. Storm Seija went over Finland. Ski tracks are filled with branches and other debris from trees. I need 5-10cm new snow until I will go cross-county skiing. At now here is -5C and clear weather. Tomorrow will be 10C colder and sunny. The storm Seija was among strongest storms in Finland.

http://yle.fi/uutiset/gallery_tracking_seijas_fury/6983990

I did a small storm chasing trip. I did not saw any damages, but lot of debris from the trees.
And I uploaded three storm related videos in YouTube. I took few photos too. It is handy that exact time is shown at photo. So I can schedule better my YouTube videos. I took a photo after each video, if I remember.

https://www.youtube.com/user/natureweather/videos

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Beautiful sunset today 11.12.2013

Hello!

The weather here has warmed 25 celcius degrees during 40 hours at Siilinjärvi. And now it is +5C.
It is also predicted that storm is coming to Finland during night between thursday and friday. And it has already named to be Seija-storm (womans name).

Here is sunset photos I took today. Three lowest photos are away from the sun. At two lowest photo you can see rare cloud formation along here over hill of Kinahmi, behind those smoke pipes. Kinahmi rises 313.7m over sea level and is among highest hills of Northern Savonia (province). I have never seen that kind of cloud in Finland. It is orographic cloud. That cloud is caused by moist air crossing hill of Kinahmi. The air gets slightly cooler when rising and crossing the hill and moisture condenses as visible cloud.  It is usually a mountain phenomenon. It was very humid air here despite it was partly sunny day.

As far as I know all lakes in our province are now frozen and dont give any heat and moisture in the atmostphere causing that the weather is possible to be more continental and wintry. (If not large warm airflows between south and west.)

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10.12.2013 Skiing trip 2

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Last night minimum temperature was -20C. When I was skiing today 4-7 PM it was -7C. And now it is -1C.
After 1 PM it started snowing and it continued until late evening. But only 2-3cm of new snow. Next two days is predicted 1-2C over 0C. Hopefully skiing conditions still remain. Today was moderate wind, which makes feel colder.
Today my skiing trip was 10,56km according to gps. I captured it with Android application Omat reitit (My tracks). It took few hours with filmings, photo shootings and enjoying nature. You can find my cell phone videos of today on my YouTube channel: Natureweather.

Below is information about my skiing trip. Web link shows my track on the map. And there if you select satellite you will see whole landscape.
I am not satisfied with how my track is shown to you. I wish that you could see it as I on my Android device.

I think you could be interested in this track 
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B81uIIcqkoIMYVFEbHhaXy0yUDg/edit

Created Google My Tracks app on your Android device. Name: Ski Run 2 Type of activity: skiing Description: - Total distance: 10.56 km (6.6 miles) Total time: 2:33:44 Movement Time: 1:22:56 Average speed: 4.12 km / h (2.6 miles / h) Average moving speed: 7.64 km / h (4.7 mi / h) Max Speed: 18.23 km / h (11.3 mi / h) Average pace: 14:34 min / km (23:26 min / mile) Average moving pace: 7:51 min / km (12:38 min / mile) Fastest pace: 3:17 min / km (5:18 min / mile) Maximum height: 164 m (538 feet) Height: 115 m ( 377 feet) achieved a height of 180 m (591 feet) Enimmäiskorkeustaso: 25% Vähimmäiskorkeustaso: 12% Upload: 12.10.2013 16:13

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Today 8.12.2013 I started my skiing season for this winter 2013-2014

Hello!

Today I started my skiing season for this winter 2013-2014. I think that I will write much about my skiings on this blog next coming months. Today I published my first cell phone video at YouTube. It was filmed after sunset, dark time. My phone is Samsung Galaxy Note II LTE/4G. I can get nice quality videos and photos with it. I had nothing image stabilization on with that YouTube video, so it is a bit shaking. And phone is slippery, expesially with my glowes. My main camera Canon PowerShot SX50 HS is slightly big for my skiing trips.

Here is over 20cm layer of snow outdoors. My first skiing went well, no new scratches at the bottom of my skis. It was -8C when I was skiing. On my phone gps-tracking was on during skiing and my trip lenght was 6,36km including walk through forest to ski tracks. My skiing is CO2 neutral because I dont need a car when I go to skiing.;) I just walk through forest about 10 minutes to one direction.
I think that many of best landscapes at winter time I could offer to you are next to my skiing trips.
Beautiful snowy nature. And I live in Siilinjärvi, Eastern Finland. Today there was already other skiers too.

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Blogin aloitus/ Starting a blog

Hei!

Ajattelin kokeilla ainakin kokeiluluonteisesti kirjoittaa blogia.
Aiheina muun muassa sääasiat, luontoasiat, tekniikka, laitteet ynnä muu.
Itsenäisyyspäivä on ainakin helposti muistissa pysyvä blogin aloitusajankohta.
Olen Natureweather, eikä minusta tarvitse välttämättä tietää enemmän, tärkeämpiä
ovat asiat, en minä.

Hello

I am about to start writing a blog, experimentally at least. Time will tell.
Topics are weather and nature things, gadgets and my experiences.
Today is Finlands Independence day. Republic of Finland is 96 years old today.
And it is the first day I am writing a blog. I live in Siilinjärvi, Eastern Finland.
I am Natureweather and you dont have to know much about me. More important are
the things I write. I am also in YouTube with the same name: Natureweather. Maybe I will write mainly in Finnish, but you can try using Google translate.
http://translate.google.com/

My English is not so good.
I dont know am I going to allow comments. I dont claim that I am an expert about anything. My texts are based my own knowledge and my experiences.





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