It may be cool here for this bank holiday weekend but at least we don't have snow, unlike Geiranger in Norway!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMSc-qqW3To

It was all lovely & green there on the 1st May, grey & wet on the 2nd & now it's covered in snow & looking very wintery instead of spring.

At least the first big cruise ship had lovely weather.

I found a new Stelvio Cam, they are having problems - it will usually be open in May.
They have had to track over snow at second floor level and are using 360 excavators combined with bulldozers to shove huge amounts of snow down the sides.
http://jpeg.popso.it/webcam/webcam_online/stelviolive_04.jpg

That's mostly fresh snow on the peaks of the mountains, it's been pretty cold & miserable there over the past few days. I've been wondering whether the snow would completely disappear in the summer, well if you can get new falls even in early July then I think probably not, well not in an average year anyway.

I saw the fresh fall of snow on the mountains there in the last few days, but the suns out now & it's gorgeous.

Tromso at 69N and 3 degrees into the arctic circle is enjoying 24 hour daylight at the moment.

Worth a look. The time lapse is impressive too.

https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/norge/northern-norway/tromso/tromso.html

Good view from that cam. Like it better than the harbor cam.

And further south but higher up in Sicily too on Mt Etna.

https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/italia/sicilia/catania/vulcano-etna.html

Some exptionally cold conditions at Geirangerfjord cruise port. Temp down to -11C and I think night minima have been in minus double digits for some days now. You can see ice forming on the fjord. Quite remarkable as I don't think you would expect sea ice to form at that location at any time during an aerage winter, let alone during the first half of November.
And to think it was only a couple of weeks ago the cruise season finished!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMSc-qqW3To

You could see plenty of Ice floating about in the Fjord during the last winter here (earlier this year) it can get cold enough that far north that the sea will start freezing close to land.

I've seen frozen sea on the north coast of Holland back in February 1986 whilst on a school geography trip! Pretty cool to witness

The average max for Geiranger is 4C and the min -1C for both Jan & Feb which on the face of it doesn't seem all that cold and conducive to much sea ice formation except in a severe winter. That said, it may be the sea but it is well inland (if that makes sense!) and will be extremely well well sheltered compared to a normal coastline and won't be subjected to the same waves and tides.

Cray snow depths on Stelvio for mid-November.
http://www.solda2000.com/webstelvioen.htm



Last year there was a big drift and bare tarmac until near Christmas

Snow fix anyone?

Gerainger this morning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMSc-qqW3To

It's even better now! Fabulous lamp post watching.

Here's a nice festive snow cam, that has a certain charm... Santa Claus Village, Finland, where it is currently snowing! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CTKu5waBao

Not a live webcam but the EXpress has a video of the saharan sandstorm that has brought Lanzarote to a stanstill

https://www.express.co.uk/news/weather/1245995/Europe-Weather-NASA-satellite-sandstorm-Canary-Islands-Spain-latest-news

If you can't stand the Express, the Metro has some good stills

https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/22/canary-islands-engulfed-massive-sandstorm-seen-space-12286040/

For lovers of lake effect snow showers here's the latest from the Faroe Islands 

https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/faroe-islands/eysturoy/eystur/leirvik.html