Snow

Let's have a few words about lumi - that white fluffy thing now all around us. Snow is something that we may love to watch by the window when it is pouring down, but hate to tread on when it is a mushy mess järgmisel hommikul. Each snowflake is a marvel to look at on the palm of your hand for that split second, but when the flakes are wet and turn into water, and during a chilly night into ice - it's a bore to try to stay upright, and a miracle not to slip! When the snow shapes everything around us into a beautiful talvemaastik on a sunny day, that is perhaps winter at its best - no matter how jäätävän kylmää it is! 

How cold is it? (Celcius & Fahrenheit)

0C=32F,  -5=23F,  -10C=14F,  -15C=5F,  -20C=-4F

-25C=-13F,  -30C=-22F,  -35C=-31F,  -40C=-40F

sanasto = sõnastik = vocabulary
aurinkoinen päivä = päikesepaisteline päev = sunny day

ihme = ime = miracle

ikkunan ääressä = akna juures = by the window

jäätävän kylmää = jäätavalt külm = freezing cold

kaunis = ilus, kaunis = beautiful

kylmä yö = külm öö = chilly night

kämmen = peopesa, kämmal  = palm (of the hand)

kämmenelläsi = su peopesal = on the palm of your hand

märkä, kostea = märg, niikse = wet, moist

parhaimmillaan = at its best

pehmeä, ilmava = udemeline = fluffy

pysytellä pystyssä = to try to stay upright

pysyä pystyssä = to stay upright 

seuraavana aamuna = järgmisel hommikul = the next morning

talvimaisema = talvemaastik = winter landscape

lumisanasto = lumesõnastik = snow vocabulary
aurata lunta = lund rookida = to plough the snow
ensilumi = esimene lumi = first snow
jää = jää = ice
lapioida lunta = lund kühveldada = to shovel snow
lumi = lumi = snow
lumihiutale = lumehelves = snowflake
lumikinos, hanki = lumehang = snowdrift
lumimyrsky = lumetorm = snow storm
lumipyry = lumetuisk = snowfall
lumisade = lumesadu = snowfall
lumisohjo = lörts = slush
lumivalkoinen = lumivalge = snowy, snow-white
lumi sulaa = lumi sulab =  the snow is melting
puuterilumi = powder snow
raekuuro = rahesadu = hail
räntä = lobjakas = sleet
sataa lunta = sajab lund, tuleb lumi maha = it is snowing
sataa rakeita = sajab rahet = it is hailing
sataa räntää = sajab lobjakat, sajab lörtsi = it is sleeting