Late autumn

Photo: Arne Ader
Translation: Liis
 
Selli pine forest. Alam-Pedja.

 
Days are short: eight hours, only 45 minutes of twilights, and so there are more than fourteen hours left for darkness.
Only a very small part of radiation from the sun reached the ground.

Weather in the last week was rainy. Rain fell nearly every day. Halfway into November the snow had melted everywhere. Northern and Central Estonia had most snow, in central Estonia the snow cover lasted a whole month. Forests are bare, ground with herbaceous plants brown or grey. The unusually high air temperature has brought green colour to nature, and windy weather. Ditches, brooks, rivers and lakes are filled with water. The ice cover that started to form in October has gone nearly everywhere.
And late autumn seems to last at least until the end of the month ...



 

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