robkelk Wrote:Currently (09:45EST) -17°F in Ottawa - we don't expect to get to 0°F until around midnight. And the forecast says it'll drop below 0°F again Monday night (roughly when it should stop snowing). I've got the furnace on full blast plus a spot electric heater going to get the temperature above 68°F inside. The city's declared a frostbite warning. The homeless shelters are at capacity.Ignore that last sentence. It's currently -4°C and raining, and the temperature is going up overnight to +2°C. It'll drop to +1°C tomorrow, then plunge to -24°C tomorrow night.
Around here, 0°C / 32°F is a memory, or a dream for the future... but that's January and February in Ottawa for you.
I am so glad that (a) I already have (most of) a big bin of ice melter, and (b) I booked this week off as well as last week. I do not envy everyone else in town going back to work tomorrow and driving home on frozen roads.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012