dbd33

This afternoon it is dark with freezing drizzle. What a place to be alive!

Oink

Jerseygirl

When I left home today about 1.00pm the sky was blue and the sun was shining. Within a hour or so it was grey. At 3 pm it looked like 4.30 pm.

Behind glass, I can put up with freezing temps when the sky is blue...but I can’t cope with the dull greyness

scrubbedexpat091

Cold and blue sky is so much better...

Problem I have with LM of BC, while it stays warmer, the weeks of greyness we can get is unpleasant and difficult to deal with. Makes one want to sleep all day...lol

Former Lancastrian

Is that Celsius or Fahrenheit? Makes a difference to you left coast wussies

Oink

Clearly Celsius, I embrace my wussiness.

BristolUK

It's a bit of a secret but I'll let you in on it.

When the temperature in the rest of Canada dips below zero, it goes so far below that just like being lapped in Formula One or 10,000 metres running, the temperature actually comes back around to plus 30.

We just call it minus 30 to make you folk in Vancouver not feel so bad about being rained on.

scrubbedexpat091

Local mountains finally have snow.

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Jerseygirl

-15c pffffttt. What a wimp. Man up.

dbd33

There was a thaw over the weekend, up to zero briefly, the roads now have the consistency of soup made with inadequately mashed potatoes. There are very many pot holes and where there are no holes there’s washboarding. Progress is made noisily with fear for one’s suspension, a cacophony of crashes against the bump stops.

Today there was new snow, wet snow, compounding the mess. I glanced at Accuweather, “Fog” it said, as oblivious to the climactic facts as President Trump. A foolish compulsion overtook me and I looked at the forecast for the coming days. Even as I did so I felt stupid, Accuweather has the same chance of predicting tomorrow’s weather as I have of choosing the winner in the 3:30 at Wincanton.

Only five more months. We have a count in days at work, a place where someone is missing every day “the schools are closed”, “the bus didn’t run”, “my car’s in a ditch”. Only the winter lover and the hourly paid casuals get there no matter what.

(no idea why the font wanders, blowing salt in the mechanism I suppose)

caretaker

That will put you in the ditch quite handily. I nearly went in this side of Fort McLeod in the Spring; it's very unforgiving.

Siouxie

For accuracy I've always found https://instantweather.ca/2018/11/25/GlVHpx-snowstorm-on-the-way-for-parts-of-southern-ontario-to-start-off-the-week-up-to-20-30cm-possible-in-central-and-northeastern-ontario-between-monday-to-wednesday/ to be the best For those on Facebook they have pages for most areas in Canada

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The weather is a bit like my mood today .. grey and miserable.
Stay safe DBD

Apologies the 1st link appears to be broken

caretaker

I find the best site is the one that maintains the weather stations, collates the data and interprets it first.
https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/sk-32_metric_e.html
Up north in '72 we spent time partying with the guys at the Island Lake DOT station and saw how they collected information from their instruments and balloons they'd send up day and night then put it together with the other weather stations to create the big isobaric maps. It was very educational.

BristolUK

In my early days I used to keep 2 or 3 going (including gc) but found so little difference for here, I settled on theweathernetwork because I found it easier to read and I liked the options.

We seem particularly susceptible to ridiculously changing weather in NB - I suppose there are other bits like that too. But if it says we're going to get 20cm snow in "two days" I just make sure that if there's anything we need, we get it by "tomorrow" so that we're not negatively affected by the city plow passing at "the wrong time"