The government urgently advised everyone to only have snowball fights within their own families or with one other person. Wintery ballet of cranes at the Maritime Museum Corona proof Finally something to look forward to, to enjoy, to celebrate. But I did feel that the winter wonder week of February 2021 came as a very welcome surprise to many of us Dutch after months of lockdowns, curfews and other bad news. I’m probably not speaking on behalf of everyone because there are also many snow haters. Snow at Wilhelminapier Winter Wonder Week I myself spent hours walking through the city with my camera to capture the unique conditions for posterity. After bravely challenging the blizzard at first, the trams of the RET gave up in the course of the morning. But still: there hasn’t been a snow layer of this thickness since the aforementioned 2012. The promised 30 centimeters were unfortunately not achieved in Rotterdam the snow cover remained limited to about ten centimeters except for occasional snow dunes. After a night of persistent snowfall, the Netherlands were covered in a beautiful layer of snow. On Sunday, February 7, the time had finally come. Blizzard on Coolsingel boulevard Blizzard A sudden stratospheric warming event, a disruption of the Polar Vortex, the Beast from the East preparing to transport a load of cold our way. Meanwhile things were happening high in the atmosphere that mere mortals are unaware of. Brienenoord Island (and bridge) on January 16 Polar Vertex and the Beast from the East Yet this was already more snow than we had seen all previous winter. A snowmageddon was predicted with many inches of snow, but in the end there was only a thin layer of powdered sugar in Rotterdam. The first cold snap, on January 16, was somewhat disappointing. Fortunately, the current winter has not become the next one in a disappointing series. We had to go all the way back to 2012 for a winter that really kicked ass, but my blog didn’t yet exist at the time. And in 020 not a single snowflake fell in Rotterdam, so I completely skipped reviewing those winters. For the winter of 2018/2019 I could think of no other word than lousy. And in 2017/2018 there was some cold at the beginning and the end, but the rest of the winter was grey and rainy. In 2016/2017 I had to go to the far east of the country to take beautiful pictures. In 2014/2015, the winter lasted only two days. Unfortunately, since I started doing that, there has hardly been any real winter weather in the Netherlands. For a few years now, I have made it a habit, some time mid-March, to look back on the past winter, and especially on the photographic aspects of it.
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