Winter is here. Damn.

You took that picture?

@hausen it's like someone is about to shoot on the ground floor

@ThatDude hahha

I'm snowless. :(

Snooooooowwww

I want snow :(

@endor he's preparing for battle

@coolq Yes this is taken from my kitchen window this morning before going into work.

Believe me, you all want snow until you have to travel, go shopping or just travel in it. Then you’ll hate it ⛄️

Well, you were told plenty of times.

It was 31°C today. I never get any snow.

@zshh
Picture quality is top notch 👍

That's what my parents told me too, snow is great until you live in it.

Is there a cat on the chimney in the top left corner? I think he's watching you. Be safe, man ;)

@hausen de_office

@ThatDude it's winter here to
but wait ... no snow

@ThatDude you used to be a boy. What happened to you ?

@ThatDude i think you should make complete transform. both digitally and really

I love driving in the snow.

Not with other people on the roads though. Far too many people never took the time to understand how their car handles in the snow

@Aporue-Sutol Same here. Season of stupid crashes is about to start

@Bitwise Exactly.

"But they're supposed to slow me down!"

I made a little week long course in snow driving for my girlfriend, which was basically the same thing my parents put me through to really drill that into her head. It's all about managing momentum and weight transfer.

@Aporue-Sutol Such course is a very good thing if you can take one. Everyone should be obliged to do it to get the driving license.

Sometimes it is enough to just go to an empty parking lot to feel your car. And I don't mean "drifting". I mean learning how your car behaves. It won't replace the course but it's better than nothing.

Where is that? It's pretty. I'm jealous, it was 90 degrees today (30 c). Always hot.

@beriba I couldn't agree more. At least in places where there's a lot of snow, make it a part of the required courses. I can't speak from experience, only heresay, but I'm pretty sure that Finland has a rather rigorous driving education system.

My grandfather prepared me for my first winter by taking me to a field and helping me get a feel for how my car reacts in the snow. Saved my cocky 16 year old self more than once. The next year I enrolled in a winter driving course provided by a local rally school.

@Aporue-Sutol Finland have the best education system in the world. At least on a regular school level. That's my opinion. Don't know if it also apply to driving schools but I bet it does.

PS. I'm from Poland and I've been in Finland once ;)

@Aporue-Sutol I confirm that there's a required slippery weather course here in Finland.
I'm actually just starting my driving school when we get all the initial paperwork sorted out and it's taught by a relative which is nice.

@codePatrol Stockholm. It’s not that cold yet (0 to -6) but the snow came yesterday.

@ThatDude I like it here. The town where I used to live sucks.

@codePatrol here it reaches 48 in summer

@Bitwise Ballsy. I like you. We don't get freezing rain here that often, but there is a steel bridge not too far from my house that causes a few accidents each Winter. A lot of people don't seem to understand even the basics of physics: if your car is going forward, unless acted upon by some other force like braking and digging in the front tires, your car will continue to go forward.

@joas Is it more oriented towards clay/gravel roads, or is there an emphasis on snow? It's probably both equally. Kind of same concepts for doing both.

@Aporue-Sutol Recognizing slipperiness of a surface and handling car in different situations seems to be things you have to learn in Finnish driving school. The surfaces include wet asphalt, snow, ice and black ice. There's does not seem to be a mention about gravel or clay roads, but I guess it depends on the teacher.
So mainly focused to snow and ice.