For those approaching their first winter
#16
Re: For those approaching their first winter
The Arctic blasts have started, snow over thanksgiving, Friday saw freezing rain (I really hate that) and today fog and more fog. The high today is supposed to be something like 2. The forecast mentioned 8 degrees by Wednesday, there may be trouble if they are wrong!
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Here too...couple of overnight frost 'advisories' but I believe someone somewhere had snow.
We have a big fir tree - or whatever it is - in our back garden. There's one little patch where the needles are sort of yellow among the green. Never seen that before. I hope this doesn't mean the tree is dying and will fall on the house.
We have a big fir tree - or whatever it is - in our back garden. There's one little patch where the needles are sort of yellow among the green. Never seen that before. I hope this doesn't mean the tree is dying and will fall on the house.
#18
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Certainly the hamster looks like he's not planning to come out of his igloo until spring.
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We haven't had a good snow/cold winter in a few years now, I hope we get some cold and snow this year, I don't mind cold or snow.
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You need to make friends with the guys who work for your local hydro company who manage the lines and pay them on the side ... we have a guy we found on Kijiji who works for Hydro One and takes down trees for us for peanuts. He took down a dead spruce yesterday >100ft tall for $100! Previous quotes from specialist companies to take down 3 trees ran to $000s, he did the job for $300.
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I think your right. It's been a very strange summer, maybe the sun will shine for us during the next couple of months.
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Odd weather here at the moment. The forecast today is 25 (humidex 31). On Sunday it is forecast to snow.
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Climate varies a lot across Canada so preparing for winter differs quite a bit depending on where you are Winter here on coastal BC is wet, often windy but seldom any snow Just had another storm front come in last night with high winds and lot of rain but temperatures well above zero c.f. interior parts of Canada - winters very cold, dry on prairies. tons of snow.
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Winter here on coastal BC is wet, often windy but seldom any snow
interior parts of Canada - winters very cold, dry on prairies. tons of snow.
The idea of moving from here and getting away from our winter snow is appealing. Much of southern Ontario gets half to two-thirds what we get here and to me that would be a significant reduction. But people there will doubtless complain about it.
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Well, differs a bit...I'm not sure about quite a bit but maybe that depends on your definition.
So that small part differs from the rest but how much does the rest differ within the rest?
Everywhere else is very cold with a ton of snow isn't it? Of course a ton of snow to one person in one part of Canada might not be a ton of snow to another in another part and sometimes you might even get two different people disagreeing in the same bit.
The idea of moving from here and getting away from our winter snow is appealing. Much of southern Ontario gets half to two-thirds what we get here and to me that would be a significant reduction. But people there will doubtless complain about it.
So that small part differs from the rest but how much does the rest differ within the rest?
Everywhere else is very cold with a ton of snow isn't it? Of course a ton of snow to one person in one part of Canada might not be a ton of snow to another in another part and sometimes you might even get two different people disagreeing in the same bit.
The idea of moving from here and getting away from our winter snow is appealing. Much of southern Ontario gets half to two-thirds what we get here and to me that would be a significant reduction. But people there will doubtless complain about it.
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Does the north of the US have markedly different weather to the south of Canada?
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My mom lives in the Palm Springs area and when I go visit in winter, seems every other car has a BC or Alberta plate.