General Chat

I just might send you all a ruler, and I don't mean the Queen, :-D :-D

This thread reminds me of schoolboys behind the cycle shed saying mines bigger than yours, although in this case it's mine's colder than yours ;-) :-D :-D :-D

Just joking, and to make you envious yesterday here in Bunbury the temp was supposed to be 28c but we hit 34c

Still snowing not due to stop until at least 7 tonight.....shovelled three times you'd never know getting much more than 15 cms :-)

Sylvia we were just saying yesterday we don't normally have solid ice all over the grass for more than a day or two it's been a couple of weeks. The schools haven't let the kids out onto the fields for weeks, never happens normally. The field ice is about 2 inch thick.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/messy-commute-ahead-as-toronto-gets-hammered-with-snow-1.5035142

cloudy, about -2C overnight.

Predicted to be the coldest February on record in the Lower Mainland.

I'm amazed at how long the snow on grass and gardens is lasting from the first snowfalls on Feb10-13. It's showing how cold the soil must be.

Snowing already as predicted.....only feels like minus 18...

It's minus 25 this morning but no wind and no snow. Supposed to go up to a balmy minus 13 today.

:-D :-D

West of us might get 20 odd cms but Windsor hardly anything.
Hope it's light snow.

Kay nothing comes to a standstill just slows down a bit, and a few steep hills no one can drive up :-)

Caroline, you'd better keep those 15 cms over on your side of the province! We're only supposed to get 1 cm tomorrow and another 1 on Thursday.
If we get those 15 cms you'll hear me screaming from my house to yours (400+ kms?)

I watched the ice breaking over the shore wall it was amazing as though it was alive ,,,,,,,nature at its best.


The bird bath frozen over over here is considered artic conditions,,,,,,,and any flurries of snow and whollop,,,,,the amber warnings go out,,,,,stay home,dont venture out, pile in mountains of food,,,,,,,,,,and then its announced,,,,


the country has come to a stand still,,,,,in 4/5 cms of snow. ;-)

:-D :-D

Never mind Margaret only 15 cms due tomorrow :-D

I have bulbs trying to grow by the house right now so Spring is coming...

Sylvia yes awful crash I think the worse was 70 vehicles and no major injuries which is a miracle with all the trucks and tankers involved. Complete whiteouts.

To be honest Margaret I had hoped for some snow firstly to do its work on the allotment soil and knock back any bacteria but spring green have active white fly that hasn't stopped in its tracks,,,,the green wont have much flavour plus will get mildew if it don't turn cold or at least get a few days of hard frost.

poor you.

Oh, how I'm longing for that kind of weather, Kay! Just to hear the frogs croaking again. Heaven!
It's minus 14c here now with wind chill making it feel like minus 24. Still a few feet of snow on the ground with more forecast this week. Beautiful sunny day but so cold!

Most of England is basking in hot sun again ,,,greenhouse door and window is wide open,,,,,,and its still in the 80s,,,,,its so unreal for Feb,yesterday was also hot enough to catch the sun for a first blast of a tan...today my arms have tell tale marks...the mowers are sounding all over round here...….not a breath of wind and ants have made their presence and the odd bumble bee......even the frogs are croaking in the pond a month or so early.

its not normal for this time of the year though,,plants will be so confused if it turns to a cold snap.

It's funny (strange) ............. the area where I live has escaped the worst of the several snow falls in the last week. We've got ca 1-2cm each time, when elsewhere has got 5-10 cm.

Twice now, we've missed the high winds.



That was one horrendous crash near Barrie :-0

You're in the eye of the storm nice and calm :-)

Our TV news showed that ice being blown on shore, and trees blown down all over the place.

We're supposed to have high winds today, but they seem to be all around where I live, not actually "here".

It's been windy but nowhere near as bad as they predicted thank goodness. A few branches down nothing much, even a lot less snow and freezing pellets...I'm sure some areas had it bad though. Yesterday they were showing ice being blown onshore from Lake Erie

https://globalnews.ca/news/4994455/ontario-wind-storm-damage/

Not too bad here in Eastern Ontario, Sylvia. Still windy here at 6:50 am but no damage that I can see and we didn't lose power. (Touch wood)

Caroline and Margaret .............


were either of you affected by the horrendous winds today?

Being in the Banana Belt of Canada, we're used to snow only being on the ground for a few days, and then quickly melting.

There have been times over the last 50+ years that we've lived here, when we've had big dumps and the temperature has stayed cold for 2 or 3 weeks, but that's been in December and early January.

I was amazed when we were out and about yesterday to how much snow from 2 weeks ago is still around, several cms deep.

Our front garden faces north, gets little sun, so not too surprising ......... but almost every side street we passed still had snow on the boulevards and lawns, hardly any green showing through.

Roads and sidewalks were clear of course.

There was a dirty grey pile of snow at one end of the mall parking lot that was still about 4' high by 5' long .............. and that wouldn't have been the only pile because it's a big lot on 3 sides of the mall.

We've had several sunny days ...... it's sunny with blue sky and high white clouds right now ............ but the temperatures have been hovering only about 2-3C each side of 0C, that's 7 or 8C below normal.


Poor little snowdrops look really unhappy!

You've had a winter haven't you for sure.

Over this weekend we're having some freezing rain then hot (8) and windy 100km....watch this space....