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!

So if it is dying, will you wait for it to fall on the house and then do something about it? Better to get an Arborist to examine it. I had a large Fir tree removed some years ago. Cost close to $1,000.

With a level of sunspots similar to the Little Ice Age, and the El Nino over, this is likely to be a really interesting winter.

Certainly the hamster looks like he's not planning to come out of his igloo until spring.

Lovely and warm here still
Long may it last

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.

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.

I think your right. It's been a very strange summer, maybe the sun will shine for us during the next couple of months.

I think you've been away from the UK too long and are not recognising Brit humour...faux angst and all that

Odd weather here at the moment. The forecast today is 25 (humidex 31). On Sunday it is forecast to snow.

Above average snow fall in southern Ontario! great news!! plenty of skiing and it may just push me into making that snowmobile purchase!!

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.

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.

Winter in Canada is rubbish. It might a bit less rubbish in some parts but it is generally awful anywhere you live. If you don't like terrible winter weather, go somewhere else. There's a practical reason nearly all the Canadians live near the US border.

Does the north of the US have markedly different weather to the south of Canada?

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.