A winter rainfall that freezes on the ground is called glaze ice, but when it does so on trees, power lines or or on objects above ground in general then glaze frost.

 

Yesterday ice rain fell from nimbostratus clouds, dark, low-level clouds, at a height of about one kilometre and this weather phenomenon we can still feel in the next few days.

 

The precipitation of ice rain is caused by a warm

It is fitting to talk about our national symbols at the Anniversary of the Republic of Estonia on February 24^th: limestone boulders, sturdy junipers, barn swallows … and cornflowers.

 

Cornflower blue has enchanted me for years. Maybe because I remember from my childhood preparing herbarium pages together with my grandmother. Preserving the cornflower blue was the most difficult part in drying plants. But Grandmother’s work bore fruit and the blue has survived until today.

 

Until today I have not connected the actions at the end of the 1960ies with the choice of the cornflower as our national flower. Yes, from 1969 the cornflower is the national flower of Estonia.

 

According to data at the Estonian Veterinary and Food Board (Veterinaar- ja Toiduamet, VTA)  AFS was found in 51 cases in the period February 9-15:  30 positive tests in samples from boar found dead and from 21 that were shot by hunters.