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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2009 6:00:57 GMT
Once again this winter, snow is covering Paris after no many years without a snowflake. Since it is still snowing like crazy, this could get good. The view from my living room window
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 2, 2009 6:08:05 GMT
Oh ~~ that is magical! Was it taken just now?
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Post by palesa on Feb 2, 2009 6:09:02 GMT
Wow, that is pretty.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2009 6:14:42 GMT
Yes, that is the current condition before the sun rises...
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 2, 2009 6:22:34 GMT
It's even prettier if you don't have to be out in it.
What is that gorgeous building in the upper left of the photo? It appears to be curved.
And is that a subway station on the mid-right?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2009 6:34:18 GMT
The subway station is indeed mid-right but it is not visible on the photo. What you may think is a metro signboard is in fact just a municipal orientation map.
The curved building is just a normal apartment building. The ground level is my post office.
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Post by palesa on Feb 2, 2009 6:39:55 GMT
I would love to be "caught" in the snow just once in my lifetime. The best we get is about an inch of snow every 25 years.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2009 14:11:43 GMT
Positively enchanting K2. We had a freak,fluke snowfall in early January,only lasted an hour or two as the temperature never got below 37F. There is just something about the quiet during and immediately after a snowfall that just sends me.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2009 14:18:04 GMT
Well, in the city at least, all of the snow has melted now (been replaced by rain).
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Post by spindrift on Feb 2, 2009 19:04:16 GMT
There is a lot of snow falling in England right now. I'll take some pictures of my town and post them tomorrow.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2009 19:14:29 GMT
We are supposed to get another session of snow tonight... and then it is supposed to melt again.
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Post by lagatta on Mar 24, 2009 1:28:10 GMT
I've never seen that much snow when in Paris, and I've often been in wintry months. No more than the odd snowflake.
We are too buried in the stuff at least 3 months a year to find it magical. This year there hasn't been any real snow in March so it has all melted, which I find magical as I can ride my bicycle.
Kerouac, the intriguing building to the right of the local information sign is sort of tent-shaped, like a greenhouse, and full of light. I think it could look like a métro station as there are two rows of lights, almost as if one were looking down on the tracks (the kind of station with a skylight - there is at least one like that in Montréal) but I'm sure it is an optical illusion.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2009 5:48:36 GMT
That's the awning of the café.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2013 14:06:31 GMT
Snow is rare in Paris. Generally we see a few flakes once or twice a year, but it almost always melts the moment it touches the ground -- or else it snows during the night and it is already half gone by the time people wake up. The snow on the weekend was reputedly the heaviest snowfall in Paris since the 1980's. Even though there were no big flakes, it snowed non stop for more than 12 hours.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2013 14:11:24 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2013 14:16:31 GMT
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Post by htmb on Jan 21, 2013 14:20:34 GMT
Ahhhhh, fantastic photographs!!! Outstanding!
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Post by lagatta on Jan 21, 2013 15:45:01 GMT
It is beautiful, but must be very slippery with all those hills. I studied in Perugia, an Italian "hilltown" (though fully a city) atop a small mountain or very high hill, and it was quite treacherous when there was snow and ice - which probably happens more often there than in Paris, as it is at a higher elevation, though many Km south...
A doctor friend there was always pissed off when she had to set the broken ankles of chic young women who insisted on wearing high heels...
You've already shown us that furry cat. It certainly has an adequate coat for snow, and weather considerably colder than that day's.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2013 16:24:30 GMT
Lovely photos. Just how the 'perfect' winter should look. Montmartre looks enchanting.
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Post by nautiker on Jan 21, 2013 16:59:09 GMT
thanks for sharing! (I recall Paris in the cold, yet not in the snow...)
do kids in Paris still have sledges? I assume Buttes-Chaumont et al should have been pretty crowded...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2013 17:25:16 GMT
Yesterday, I did not see anyone equipped with sleds -- they were using the urban replacement: black garbage bags!
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Post by anshjain97 on Jan 22, 2013 1:05:05 GMT
Great pictures, Kerouac, looks amazing. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 22, 2013 5:28:36 GMT
Much as I hate sn*w, I am grateful to it for providing you with the opportunity to take these dazzlingly beautiful pictures. Superb!
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Post by lugg on Jan 22, 2013 20:17:20 GMT
Enchanting photos of Montmarte. And what an extremely supremely superior cat.
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Post by may1787 on Feb 2, 2013 22:48:47 GMT
I live in Alaska and I still think Montmartre may be worse in the snow! All of the steps and hills have got to be treacherous, especially if it is still cold when the snow melts and turns into ice. I have to say, though, it looks beautiful!
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Post by nycgirl on Feb 10, 2013 5:28:26 GMT
Beautiful! This is a Montmarte I've never seen before, even in photos. It's amazing how in some of the shots it looks like an idyllic little town rather than a wildly popular tourist trap in a wildly popular city. Having said that, I am surprised that a pretty healthy number of tourists braved the weather. I sure wouldn't have!
We just got a bunch of snow yesterday and my scruffy street looked pretty for a little while. I should have taken pictures. Too late now, it looks like crap again.
Love that cat perched on the statue. So cute!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2013 6:15:32 GMT
There were far more Parisians than usual in the crowd, because whenever it snows in Paris, the first thing that comes to the mind of a lot of Parisians is "let's go to Montmartre" and they flock there like lemmings. I'm proof of that.
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Post by bjd on Feb 10, 2013 8:08:07 GMT
I think that in places where it doesn't snow often, locals tend to go out in it. Here, where it rarely snows, the rare times you see lots of people walking around outside is when it does. At least the first day.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 8, 2018 5:45:30 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 8, 2018 6:04:54 GMT
Was that yesterday? Very dramatic and most of the pictures are very pretty, magical even. But #s 7, 8, & 9 reminded me of what snow is really like.
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