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by Ann » Fri Oct 12, 2012 12:42 am
Fall arrived here last Tuesday. In a meteorological sense, fall is defined where I live as five days in a row where the average 24-hour average temperature is below 10C. We had one such day on Tuesday, another on Wednesday and yet another on Thursday. As I'm writing this, very early in the morning on Friday, temperatures may have dropped below 0C (I don't want to know yet, so I haven't checked). The top daytime temperature today is likely to be, at best, 11C. Tomorrow the cold will be accompanied by rain. At least it will not snow.
Yesterday morning was really cold, even if this morning is likely to be colder. Anyway, after the very chilly start, the weather turned quite lovely. Our autumn leaves around here aren't nearly as colorful as the ones you've got in North America, because for some reason our deciduous trees don't get nearly as red. (So I'm not exactly an avowed lover of red colors, but even I find the very red autumn leaves irresistible.)
Still, even if our trees don't turn as red as yours, they still show nice autumn colors. It was a pleasure to be on the train going home from work and look out at the sunlit autumn countryside.
When I came home, the weather was still nice, and I decided to spend an extra hour cycling along the rather lush old "beach and recreation" part of Malmö. However, I saw something really strange, which I have absolutely never seen before. On some mornings the world is "dressed in dew", as it were, and elegant, beautiful spiderwebs seem to just "pop out" everywhere because they are bejeweled by tiny drops of water. Well, yesterday I saw no spiderwebs, but the fields of grass seemed to be cocooned in billions and trillions very thin but long strands of spiderweb-like filaments. The Sun was in front of me, an I could see how the light from it created long shiny columns of reflection in the grass, as if the grass had been wrapped in a "dream-coat" of transparent silk.
But there was more. Every tree, every lamp-post and every sign-pole seemed to sport these long delicate strands of "almost-spiderweb". But in the case of the trees and the lamp-posts and sign-poles, the threads didn't "hang down". Instead, they pointed horizontally away from the structures they were attached to to, all of them pointing from the west to the east. I was going south, and I had trees and lamp-posts on my right, and long thin strands at least a meter long pointed horizontally away from all these vertical structures straight over at the bicycle path where I was cycling! I felt as if I was cycling straight into ultra-thin long fingers that kept coming at me directly in my path!
Wow! It was weird! But somehow, it was beautiful, too.
Ann
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It's 59F right now;and is forecast for 83! I can handle that! 
Actually; it's been so dry that I don't expect much snow this winter! I have heard somewhere that the drought here is supposed to last another 6 months! I'm no weather man; but that would take us to about Spring!
