It is here

[Jacob Bugge]

[Ton Frederiks]

More than enough now and more coming up tomorrow.

[Jacob Bugge]

We have about the same here, Ton.

Much more was expected, some 6 inches/15 cm by now. The current downcast says no more for over a week.

[Jacob Bugge]

Starting on 3rd January, barely more than an inch over four days with no more to come but frost and wind.

Here is what we have apart from the feeding ground with wheat between the trees and the bird feeders with fat balls hanging on the windows:

Two fat balls crumbled and spread, to avoid the attention of big black and grey birds, and ensure that they are only eaten by the ones that really need them.

Click to get closer, Click again to get closer still

[Kurt Gold]

Jacob,

my sister's tomcat often snatches and eats the birds that are fed at their feeding ground.

I wonder if your cat is a bit more dovish?

[Jacob Bugge]

Kurt,

Finding and eating crumbled fat balls was exactly how she turned up at our (terrace) doorstep many years ago as a young adult cat, feral in the deepest sense, to become our Bella.

She also finds birds most adoring, but has been persuaded to only enjoy watching them, remaining a master mouser, also taking care of larger rodents.

[Monika Gause]

Regards from the center of the storm. We are advised to not leave home.

[Jacob Bugge]

You have it all, Monika.

It must be really still; except for creaking when you walk in the whiteness.

[Jacob Bugge]

It was opposite when all this started. Over the years I have enjoyed your picture posted 16th December in the first year, of the tranquil Hamburg street with less than an inch on the ground but still a falling whiteness, yellowish in the warm glow of the street lamp in the foreground to the left.

Unfortunately, it seems to have disappeared recently.

[Monika Gause]

We have cleared that server in order to move it to a different provider. 

Here you go: 

"Creaking whiteness" is not happening. It's pretty cold, there is a strong wind, all is slippery and it is not advised to walk below trees, because they could break. Last year during an autumn storm there was a bad accident, in which someone got injured severely by a fallen branch, so really you don't want to be outside.

[Jacob Bugge]

Thank you very much, Monika.

I can hear that it is really tough; I thought the new picture showed calm, with flakes of all sizes falling slowly through the still air.