Sweden: one or two countries?

It’s amazing how the places I saw when arriving to Sweden for the first time (mid-August) changed so much after the first snowfall. Despite what I thought previously, snowfalls aren’t always the same. I have my own snow classification:

• Snow storm (not good for biking, hurts your eyes);
• Winter wonderland (slowly falling snow, like dust floating through the air);
• Foggy snow (very little snow flakes that get your clothes all white);
• Snowmen snow (good for making snowmen. The temperature has to be near zero from what I understood so far, otherwise it’s like dust and doesn’t allow for making of snowballs);
• Annoying snow (when you want to get somewhere fast and its snowing like hell).

Other types of weather one can encounter in Uppsala:

• Icy – falling easily guaranteed, on bike or on foot;
• Cold like hell – below 20ºC (negative of course XD) becomes quite of a problem.

Several places I’ve passed by before are hardly recognizable now. I’ve made a photo comparison to show you. Is it the same place or a different place?

From Stockholm bridge near Nordiska museum

Grand Hotel – Stockholm

Stockholm channels

 

Stora torget – Stockholm

Stora torget – Stockholm

Nordiska museum – Stockholm

Statue in front of Nordiska museum

PUB shopping center – Stockholm

BMC landscape – Uppsala

BMC landscape – Uppsala

BMC bicycle park – Uppsala

Garden near Rudbeck laboratory – Uppsala

Rudbeck laboratory exit – Uppsala

Cathedral – Uppsala

Castle bell – Uppsala

Botanical garden – Uppsala

Triangle – Uppsala

Triangle – Uppsala

Triangle – Uppsala

Castle – Uppsala

Castle – Uppsala

Street to Carolina Rediviva – Uppsala

Street in front of Carolina Rediviva – Uppsala

Carolina Rediviva library – Uppsala

Linné statue

Gustanavium museum- Uppsala

Blashuset garden – Uppsala

Uppsala river