Schools were open yesterday so with temperatures for today forecast to be around 10c (that's plus 10) and rain (that's rain, not freezing rain) imagine my surprise when I woke this morning to CBC radio news telling me that schools throughout the province were closed today.

Apparently the issue is "anchor ice" that the plows have been unable to get rid of and that rain will just freeze and make the surfaces worse.

It seems strange that in 14 winters here I've never heard of this affecting even part of the province let alone all of it. There's usually quite a difference in weather for the north and south halves as well as west and east.

What I thought was overnight soft snow on the front steps is actually hard -ish.

We have +8 & +9 forecast this weekend! WTF is going on.

Meanwhile, in Siberia:

-30c to -40c forecast again this coming week
Not fun.

Very cold and lots of snow, an unusual combination,

Ha ha ha

Is that with the windchill ? I think -30 or -40 air temp in the Hammer would be record breaking...with the wind chill included it is possible.

-40 would be a new record for my car thermometer. I took a picture at -35.5 before realizing that -36/37 is an annual event.

At that level of cold there isn't much of a difference between the system you think in versus the one everyone else in this country under the age of about 60 uses I think you are secretly a 'leaver'./daily mail reader'

I think my record here is about -33 c late at night on the outskirts of Ottawa.

How much longer is that likely to go on?

They're sadists, them physios. Good luck with that.

I lived with one. We mainly ate parts of non-compliant patients.