Snow in November on Gotland?

Even if Gotland is a swedish island and Sweden is considered to be a snowy country, Gotland is not known to have a lot of snow during the winters. People that are fond of white and snowy winters prefers to live in the norther parts of Sweden.

A typical gotlandish winter contains roses blooming in the garden in december. Snow can start to fall in november, but it will be gone the next day. Sometimes we have snow for Christmas, but we are more used to green Christmas.

But this year we got snow on the 24th of november and it stays and the experts says it will stay for weeks! I don’t like cold weather. I don’t like to have to dress up to meet freezing temperatures. Everything I do seems to take longer when it is cold.

And they talk about the climate effect… 2070 we might not get any snow on Gotland at all. ”We”? Well I have to be really lucky to stay alive for that long – but who knows? Anyway, if we are going to get green winters, why not start right now?

If you want to see winter pictures from march 2010 you can click here.