General Chat

weather reports on the radio say ........

......... rain mixed with snow this morning

All I can see out of the window is snow, and it is sticking

:-D sure all welcome....that said sun is out and salt is down so ice is melting mostly...

do you allow figure skating?

Ice rink....hockey anyone??

True ....... especially here!

:-D :-D :-D

We'll be moaning when it's hot :-D

Today has been nice and sunny, clear blue sky, about +5C ....... but clear sky means the temperature is going to drop tonight to around -6C

Same is forecast for tomorrow, at least until late afternoon/early evening when ................... no prizes for guessing

clouding over followed by rain and/or sleet and/or wet snow and/or 4-5 cm snow by Friday.

Margaret you have got it bad, our snow banks aren't that high yet....mind you they haven't plowed all the time either!
So far today only flurries but freezing rain due any minute now.....then plus 3 by morning....basically we're having weather tonight :-D

Keep inside and warm Margaret.

is there no end in sight for you, Margaret?


The TV forecaster (Global) said last night that it looks as though we'll have this arctic outflow and front around BC until probably the beginning of march .... that's very unusual for us.

Climate change!

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.

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

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

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

Update from rellies an hour ago.

More snow on its way. :-P

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 :-)

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!

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

Today cloudy

Tomorrow ..... more snow

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

heaves big sigh!

Oh yes,

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

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.}

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

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...