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Freezing rain and ice pellets due tomorrow.....hate the ice :-(

Relatives have been having all sorts.

The snow started to melt. Then it iced over again, resembling an ice rink.

Then they had ice storms.

Not nice for them, is it?

Unless they like to skate...which I don't....

we have sun here, which means the snow is melting ......... but the temperature will drop late in the day and we'll have frozen snow aka ice.

did you see the snow rat yesterday Sylvia?? Somewhere in BC tried to go sledding with the kids...

.https://bc.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1610668

No, I had not seen that!!

It happened in Victoria ............ wonder what they thought about rats in the neighbourhood??? :-D

Guessing not highly thought of.... :-D

:-D :-D :-D

lovely sunny day yesterday.

Today ............. cloudy, miserable. Snow due to arrive this evening, ca 5 cm OR it might be rain.

If snow, it will last through into tomorrow (Friday) morning), then turn to rain.

Saturday on will be sunny and cold again.

Can imagine it will not be fun to be out driving or walking on the icy streets on Saturday!



It has literally just started to snow ........... in time for the evening rush hour!

Sunny all morning....cloudy but warming up all afternoon...will be 4 degrees tonight and raining and minus 4 by tomorrow afternoon.....stand still long enough you see all the weather...

It's snowing really hard now :-(

OH went out literally a couple of minutes before it started, meaning to either walk or take 2 buses to the nearest Best Buy to get a new power cord for a laptop. He's still not home ............ I expect the traffic is having problems, and he'll come in looking like a snowman! :-D

Email yesterday from my brother in law in Victoria BC.

The brochures on Victoria will" trump the fact" that it never snows here !
The schools and colleges were closed for 3 "snow days". One snow day happen occasionally but three never before now.
I had to shake the snow off the evergreen magnolia (large) leaves out front and the California lilac to prevent breakage of branches with heavy wet snow. It was fun as the temp was a "brutal" minus 3 which I can endure bravely at this stage.
Jacq. went to Regina to be with her Mom as she had a hand (carpal tunnel ) op. which went well this AM . She will play the Florence N. role for a week or so there or longer as needs must.
The temp there this AM was a cool minus 29 c. with a slight wind.
I hope you are avoiding the rigours of mid winter and staying warm.
I hope the porridge recipe is finessed and flourishing these mornings.

{Porridge: I enjoyed it while we were there last October. So we went to where he buys it and I brought a stash home. Very different to the Irish Jumbo Oats that we usually have.}

Oh yes,

Victoria has had a real wake-up call this week!!

yesterday ............ nice, "warm" at ca 5/6C, much of the snow melted.

Today cloudy

Tomorrow ..... more snow

Friday ............ more snow

heaves big sigh!

Rellies have had a bit of a thaw too. The average temperature has risen to about -6, so not as back as before.

Roll on Spring!

Snow finished yesterday then bright blue skies and feeling like minus 14 (minus 20 at night)....tomorrow more snow and freezing rain due into Thursday....it's been an icy winter even by our standards :-)

Update from rellies an hour ago.

More snow on its way. :-P

We have a mucky mess of drizzle, showers and flurries of wet snow at the moment .......... temperature is hovering between o and +1C

Photos sent to us this morning, show about 1 ft of snow.

Lovely to look at, but treacherous if you have to travel.

I have a composter in my garden which is about 3 feet high. It is now completely buried in snow, can't even see it. Our worst problem is driving, the snowbanks are so high that you can't see if anything's coming, you have to inch your way into the intersection before you can see what's coming, sometimes too late. And like Caroline we've got freezing rain coming tomorrow.