Winter

According to Environment Canada's site, it's -8, -19 with wind chill.  It's snowing and the visibility is reduced to about half a kilometre.

I wore my knee-length downfill coat today, with ski gloves to dig Malificent out of the snowdrift so I could drive to work.

Still a tad above freezing; small flurries and splotches, but no lasting snow as yet: it's coming tonight. The wind even died down for a while and it was light enough to bother turning the solar panel. Gathered in the very last bits of kindling; have cozy fire. Only the ex-barn-cats are willing to go out. Brisk traffic on the birdfeeder includes a family of cardinals: mom, dad and a teenager of each sex. I picked out the yarn for crocheted slippers.

Waited five hours yesterday to have winter tires put on the car.  Maybe should have done that earlier.

RosaL wrote:

al-Qa'bong wrote:

The bike ride home will be more of a challenge than the ride in to work this morning. 

She's been snowing all day (they say 5 cm but it seems like more) but it's only -12, so it's not too cold yet.

I'd say we've almost got a blizzard up here. What's it like in Saskatoon? (I was going to drive down there today but cancelled due to the weather. I'm glad I did.)

I had to do a few portages where the snow was too deep, and I was forced to ride on the road going up the Broadway bridge rather than the sidewalk going up the bridge, but other than that it wasn't too bad.  The drivers were even accomodating.  Nobody honked or made rude gestures or anything.  I think it may be because of Rider Nation solidarity.

While I was riding I was thinking that someone should write a song about cycling through a Saskatchewan blizzard.  Such a song could be the next "Canadian Railroad Trilogy."

Snow in Chilliwack.  Otherwise it is pretty standard rainforest winter weather.  Rain followed by drizzle.

I hope we here on the Quebec coast have another very mild winter last the last one. Depends on whether the Gulf Current is diverted again, I guess.

Still mild in Port Hope. Clear, minus 1, slight breeze, sunny tomorrow with temperature rising to 6 above. Might see a little wet snow by Wednesday, if I don't blink and miss it like I did with the first snow of the winter here.

Once winter starts, if I drive away from the lake and over the ridge to Peterborough it may be 20 degrees colder. Not yet: only 2 degrees difference. Not winter yet. 

Wilf Day wrote:

Still mild in Port Hope.   

All that radium in your soil will help keep things warm.

Looking out the window it looks like a Christmas card, as we had our first snow fall yesterday. Fire is crackling in our 'family room ' which is actually the garage, but we have turned it into a hang out. ;)

Had to shovel a whack load of snow from our drive ways, which we had thought we would not have to do this year, as we finally decided we were old enough for a snow blower.

However, it is not  tuned up yet (we got it 2nd hand) after delivering it to the tune up guy last May. Things move pretty slowly in small towns, or at least this one. 

Apparently, it is not the item delivered for fxing that comes first, it is the seasonal item which comes first for fixing. So, it was put behind the roto tillers for spring, the lawn mowers for summer, and the chain saws for fall....Perhaps if we had taken it in in April we would have it now? :D

 Nanaimo in the snow...would imagine their hypotheticals were not close to correct.

...hated being out driving in the snow there, not because of the snow, but because no one  knew how to drive in it, and it was just a series of driving other people's vehicles up hill, or down hill, to get them out of my way, and walking back to my own. And being at the university when it snowed was ugly, given its perch on the side of a mountain and only 2 ways down. One of them being almost a 90 degree incline.

I have a huge, ugly parka I got at Value Village. I was fortunate to find it and I am absolutely delighted with it although I have a fair idea of what I must look like in the thing. But who cares? It's nice and warm and has a "storm hood". 

I brought a parka with detachable storm hood from Sears for about $75.00 five years ago. Hardly any visible wear on it, and fits perfect, and has lots of insulation. However, it's a military fatigue-like green, not exactly the most attractive colour, but who cares. It keeps me warm in the coldest temperatures if I'm also wearing a sweater.

Temps right now are -10C, -16 windchill. No snow yet. Lots of wind in the forecast, along with snow next Friday.

-24 out there tonight, -31 with the wind chill.  We had more snow, but I'll shovel it tomorrow.  I pulled out the goose-down duvet they other day.  That makes it official - winter is here!  The blond guy is lighting a fire in the fireplace, so I think I will go warm up in front of it.  :-)

Wait for it.

We're having a Toronto winter - cold yesterday, and some snow, but today it was 15 C.  So as per usual when Toronto winter temps fluctuate upwards, the subway, malls and my workplace were all sweltering today.  It was 28 C in my office.

Quote:

police officers giving homeless people blankets because "it's the right thing to do"

Better check for smallpox.

Winter hit here on PEI on Saturday evening, however we only got about 5 cm of snow. Everything looks beautiful and I am loving it. I hope it stays below freezing until say mid-March, however it is supposed to rain later in the week. 

Friends gave us a little baby sleigh, so we got to pull our 7 month old around outside on a sunny snowy day! Very fun, and I am so excited about experiencing winter anew through her eyes. The first huge snowfall will be very fun!

More snow last night and another 5-10 cm forecast for today, and still very cold.  We've already got an unusual amount of snow - if this keeps up it will be a record year.

There was a coyote in town today. I saw it on the main street. 

When my savage rambler shrubs catch sight of winter a'comin

from the north over the giant Scarborough hill of post-glacial clay;

when they are alarmed by the droop of the frostbitten marigolds across the path

and shocked by the sudden exposure of leaf-lorn fence,

then they shriek into furious last-ditch forty-rose bloom 

as a warning, as defiance.

from: 2010-2011 Canada Winter Forecast