I've just been watching the snow removal operation down our street.

Heavy truck after heavy truck after heavy truck thundering along, replacing each one when it has a full load of blown in snow - which appeared to be every two plots - and then followed by a plow to "tidy up" the bits left behind...by moving across the nice, previously cleared, end of driveway. Again.

Five consecutive days of plus temperatures coming up with not even the feels like bringing it down to zero.

It's all gone away hasn't it Bristol? I'm safe to toe my way down the drive on the perma frost for the next wee while?

We still have plenty of room on the drive to pile more up. There's a bit more due into March.

Hope it keeps off though. Mother in law now has physio appointments at the hospital to help her recover from her broken ankle. Not the best conditions to have to struggle on one foot up and down steps...even getting in and out of taxis at icy/snow covered kerbsides.

We've had almost two feet of soggy snow on Vancouver Island with the plough making sure to leave a good big heap across the end of the drive soon after we'd cleared the last pile away. With the temperature rising, most of the snow has now gone. It has been a horrible winter here. Everything in the garden is late. We'd normally see snowdrops about the third week in January but they're just out now with a few crocuses starting to bloom. We can expect a lot of flooding next.

" At this stage in the season there is limited indication that any region of the province is developing increased seasonal flood risk due to high snowpack."

River Forecast Centre – Environment – Province of British Columbia

Yeah, that's what they said to Noah

'ark at him...

Can anyone see Bristol's coat?

Here you go Bristol

In this part of the world, the track of the weather system makes all the difference. Three days ago, there was a possibility of a heavy snowfall last night from a system approaching from the south. As it happened it passed offshore & we had nothing. Thats a relief after last weeks 60cm,


The weekend is forecasting +7C and fog. That'll eat the snow pretty quickly!

That's what we have. It's like driving in very heavy snow, no forward visibility at all. On roads with lines it's fine but on dirt ones it's very hard to see how close to the ditch the car is so there's a danger of falling into that and, of course, there are griege minivan thingies with those stupid daytime running lights on the front and so none on the back.

Its been a very dissapointing winter from a southern Ontario snowmobiler's perspective, it seems the season is already over....although it was still better than last year, that was a complete joke.

snowing tonight.