This morning the temperature was -20. And it was cloudy. It feels like something bent has been straightened. Last winter was, when you think about it, outrageously warm, you had to walk around in too much clothes and hardly froze at all. New Year's Eve for example, last year was the first time I can remember, ever, that it was warmer than -20 on New Year's Eve. You would think that it would be nice when wearing thin clothes as one traditionally does at New year's parties, but it felt...wrong.

Now it has been quite cold for a while, and my hopes are up...we are bound to freeze on New Year's Eve!


Dawn in Arvidsjaur, -20 and cloudy...