This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image from 21 November 2024 captures the first snow of the season over Denmark and southern Sweden.
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The image highlights a white blanket of snow over most of Denmark (on the left) and southern Sweden (on the appropriate), whereas patches of brown and inexperienced current areas that remained free of snow.
Utterly totally different sized water our our bodies, seen in black, speckle the flat terrain all through every nations. Notably, Arresø, Denmark’s largest lake, inside the prime left nook, appears inexperienced. This colouration might be going ensuing from a mixture of issues, along with shallow depth and algal progress.
Copenhagen, Denmark’s capital, near the centre of the image, is type of snow-free. City faces the Øresund Strait (the Sound) which divides Denmark and Sweden and hyperlinks the Baltic Sea to the North Sea.
Zooming in, the 20 turbines of the Middelgrunden offshore wind farm may very well be seen off the coast of Copenhagen harbour. The wind farm is probably going one of many largest ever constructed and appears as a 3.4-km-long string of pearls in the dead of night water of the Strait.
The snow-free island seen to the east of Amager is Saltholm, which interprets as Salt Islet, and the development to the southwest is the substitute island of Peberholm or Pepper Islet.
Peberholm was constructed as part of the Øresund Bridge, a blended bridge-tunnel all through the Strait that connects Copenhagen with the city of Malmö on the west coast of Sweden. Although usually seen from space, the bridge, on this image, is in shadow from the cloud above.
In fact, cloud dominates the underside part of the image and shadow from the cloud is clear to see on the white snow, notably inside the southeastern fringe of Sweden.
Northeast of Malmö, the city of Lund stands out in darkish tones amidst the snow near the centre of the image. Surrounding the town house, the geometric patterns of agricultural fields are apparent beneath the white cowl of snow.
