The Four months of not winter - 2020
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Re: The Four months of not winter - 2020
Because they don't have the stuff to plow and remove a lot of snow, it takes every city worker they can round up in Vancouver on a weekend just to keep the drains clear. I came in on the bus once, and all the way from Chilliwack there were cars in the ditch. I gave up counting them by Abbotsford and started just counting those with all 4 wheels in the air, and there were dozens.
That stretch of highway 1 between Chilliwack and Abbotsford is nasty in the winter. I was working in Abby one winter and living in Chilliwack and they shut the highway down from Abby to Chilliwack, so I couldn't even get home.
Although Highway 1 is under provincial jurisdiction and they of course contract out to whatever company has that part of the highway, some of the companies do a better job than others, but yes the city's do a very bad job, lack the equipment to do it properly, and funding, and some smaller city's wont plow on Sunday or holidays, looking at your Chilliwack.
It's always a cluster anytime is snows in the Lower Mainland.
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Re: The Four months of not winter - 2020
High of -3 expected today, its currently -3 so maybe we have reached the high temp for the day. Cloudy with snow expected overnight.
The weekend cold but no real snow in the forecast after tonight.
The weekend cold but no real snow in the forecast after tonight.
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Re: The Four months of not winter - 2020
We are nearly at the end of December and it’s been amazing! No snow, or not the usual 25 cms we’d be under by now! Last year (how sad does this sound) I asked for a new snowblower for this Christmas! I now have a super smart thing that ‘I’ should be able to handle...and I haven’t had the chance I don’t want the climate to change in any negative way, but I do hope I might get the chance to escape before it gets back to its normal frigid solidity!
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We are nearly at the end of December and it’s been amazing! No snow, or not the usual 25 cms we’d be under by now! Last year (how sad does this sound) I asked for a new snowblower for this Christmas! I now have a super smart thing that ‘I’ should be able to handle...and I haven’t had the chance I don’t want the climate to change in any negative way, but I do hope I might get the chance to escape before it gets back to its normal frigid solidity!
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Re: The Four months of not winter - 2020
Big variations in the numbers of green christmases over the last 30 years compared to the 30 before that.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-b...kely-1.5856955
I think 2014-15 was the last dramatic winter here and I really can't remember the last time the ridge across the end of the drive had boulders of mostly ice that I couldn't shift.
We've had one or two officially 'green' christmases when there was a actually a blanket of snow covering everything and most people would probably describe it as white.
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Re: The Four months of not winter - 2020
Should the thread be renamed or have a new 'winter' thread? Personally, I quite like dbd's description of summer.
I made an executive decision - new winter thread
I made an executive decision - new winter thread
Last edited by BristolUK; Dec 30th 2020 at 1:28 pm.
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Re: The Four months of not winter - 2020
Should the thread be renamed or have a new 'winter' thread? Personally, I quite like dbd's description of summer.
I made an executive decision - new winter thread
I made an executive decision - new winter thread
We had a white Christmas.. and it was -12c at 5am Christmas Day
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Re: The Four months of not winter - 2020
Technically, we're only about 10 days in aren't we?
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Re: The Four months of not winter - 2020
- Astronomical winter begins at the winter solstice and ends at the spring equinox. Astronomical seasons are based on the position of Earth in relation to the Sun.
- Meteorological winter (in the Northern Hemisphere) starts on December 1 and ends on February 28 (or 29). Meteorological seasons are based on the annual temperature cycle and climatological patterns observed on Earth.
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Re: The Four months of not winter - 2020
May, June, July, August, although in places you can still get a good blizzard in May or at the end of August. Those are my picks for the 4 months of not winter. Got caught in a hell of a blizzard in Golden in July once, and it was crazy.
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Re: The Four months of not winter - 2020
Although May into June isn't so great, May gray leads to June gloom and all.