Earth from House: First seasonal snow

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 picture from 21 November 2024 captures the primary snow of the season over Denmark and southern Sweden.

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The picture highlights a white blanket of snow over most of Denmark (on the left) and southern Sweden (on the correct), whereas patches of brown and inexperienced present areas that remained freed from snow.

Completely different sized water our bodies, seen in black, speckle the flat terrain throughout each international locations. Notably, Arresø, Denmark’s largest lake, within the high left nook, seems inexperienced. This colouration is probably going as a result of a mixture of things, together with shallow depth and algal progress.

Copenhagen, Denmark’s capital, close to the centre of the picture, is nearly snow-free. Town faces the Øresund Strait (the Sound) which divides Denmark and Sweden and hyperlinks the Baltic Sea to the North Sea.

Zooming in, the 20 generators of the Middelgrunden offshore wind farm may be seen off the coast of Copenhagen harbour. The wind farm is without doubt one of the largest ever constructed and seems as a 3.4-km-long string of pearls at nighttime water of the Strait.

The snow-free island seen to the east of Amager is Saltholm, which interprets as Salt Islet, and the construction to the southwest is the factitious island of Peberholm or Pepper Islet.

Peberholm was constructed as a part of the Øresund Bridge, a mixed bridge-tunnel throughout the Strait that connects Copenhagen with the town of Malmö on the west coast of Sweden. Though typically seen from house, the bridge, on this picture, is in shadow from the cloud above. 

The truth is, cloud dominates the underside a part of the picture and shadow from the cloud is obvious to see on the white snow, notably within the southeastern fringe of Sweden.

Northeast of Malmö, the town of Lund stands out in darkish tones amidst the snow close to the centre of the picture. Surrounding the city space, the geometric patterns of agricultural fields are obvious beneath the white cowl of snow.