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Old Apr 18th 2018, 2:47 am
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I'm not very good at thinking positively about this crappy weather, but any effort I was making came to a grinding halt this afternoon, along with my car, which got wedged on the ice half down my drive this pm. Enough already.
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Old Apr 18th 2018, 12:21 pm
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Default Re: Spring...what the hell??

Originally Posted by Teaandtoday5
I'm not very good at thinking positively about this crappy weather, but any effort I was making came to a grinding halt this afternoon, along with my car, which got wedged on the ice half down my drive this pm. Enough already.
It was lucky I cleared our drive on Monday. It was still quite wintry this morning.
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Old Apr 18th 2018, 1:24 pm
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Default Re: Spring...what the hell??

Originally Posted by dbd33
It was lucky I cleared our drive on Monday. It was still quite wintry this morning.
Holy crap!!!

That is indeed quite wintery. Nice car!!!
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Old Apr 18th 2018, 2:52 pm
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Originally Posted by Tumbling_Dice
Holy crap!!!

That is indeed quite wintery. Nice car!!!
Thanks.

That would not be a terrible state of affairs for February, it can get quite snowy where we are and there's some blowing into the driveway. It is, however, not February.
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Old Apr 18th 2018, 3:02 pm
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Default Re: Spring...what the hell??

Originally Posted by Teaandtoday5
I'm not very good at thinking positively about this crappy weather, but any effort I was making came to a grinding halt this afternoon, along with my car, which got wedged on the ice half down my drive this pm. Enough already.


If I was any further north/east i'd be screwed. My summer tires were on 2 weeks ago, and unlike most cars they are not all season tires, they are summer/warm weather sport tires.
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Old Apr 18th 2018, 11:58 pm
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Originally Posted by Gozit


If I was any further north/east i'd be screwed. My summer tires were on 2 weeks ago, and unlike most cars they are not all season tires, they are summer/warm weather sport tires.


BC Ministry of Transport announced on April 4 that winter tires will have to be on cars from October 1 until APRIL 30 as of the next winter season in certain areas of the province ...... ie October 2018 to end of April 2019.

The areas affected are the North and Southern Interior

Until that announcement, winter tires time was October 1 to March 31


There were still winter snow warnings for all mountain passes as of 2 nights ago.

There might well be flood warnings if our current sudden warm weather continues
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Originally Posted by BristolUK
Yes, I saw the CTV news report
The area around the CN Tower is closed for the 4th day due to falling ice from the tower. Whilst here in the UK it’s been 27c today. Oh well back to the city of falling ice tomorrow.
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Old Apr 19th 2018, 10:40 pm
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Originally Posted by Jerseygirl
The area around the CN Tower is closed for the 4th day due to falling ice from the tower. Whilst here in the UK it’s been 27c today. Oh well back to the city of falling ice tomorrow.
But it’s going to be 5 degrees tomorrow so you’ll be just fine!
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Default Re: Spring...what the hell??

Finally spring like in Vancouver.

Obviously not as bad as back east.
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Old Apr 20th 2018, 4:34 am
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Uncovered the A/C and tested it this evening.

Spring is here!
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Default Re: Spring...what the hell??

The snow here is that thick wet stuff that's hard to push through and, under it, there's a bed of ice. I saw four stuck vehicles this morning, most of them were unidentifiable grey blobs, but one was a Prius. I was childishly delighted at that.
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Next week looks promising! Today snow
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Old Apr 20th 2018, 12:56 pm
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Its snowing outside ffs
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Old Apr 20th 2018, 1:09 pm
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Originally Posted by Howefamily
Its snowing outside ffs
Always better than snowing inside 🤣

We’re going up to 8 degrees today. I’m very excited!!!!
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Default Re: Spring...what the hell??

Originally Posted by Howefamily
Its snowing outside ffs
Just a light dusting though. It'll be gone soon enough.

Earlier on it was like the the first snowfall of December as if we were to have it all over again.
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